Not So Extreme Programming, with Amitai Schleier

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Summary:
Where "Agile" sounds pleasant and inclusive, "Extreme Programming"... doesn't. But it's a differentiator: teams practicing XP are seen to move with uncommon agility. The name has other problems, too. For one, XP is about much more than programming. For another, when compared with other ways software still gets developed, XP is much *less* extreme. This talk -- for anyone involved with Agile in any role, at any scale -- will take you through where Extreme Programming came from, where it's going, what it requires, why it remains as relevant as ever, and how to take advantage.

Bio:
Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) is a software development coach, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, and award-winning bad poet. He publishes fixed-length micropodcasts at Agile in 3 Minutes, writes variable-length articles at schmonz.com, and contributes code and direction to notable open-source projects such as notqmail, pkgsrc, ikiwiki, and NetBSD. Amitai's ideas, prose, music, and puns have manifested mostly at a variety of software-focused venues, but also at the International Rachmaninoff Conference and (to great success, unfortunately) the Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest.