Online Only: Intro to BDD & Effective (remote) Working

This is a free event, open to all. Due to the current situation with COVID-19 this event will be online only.

The event will be streamed via YouTube on the following link: https://youtu.be/c9mz9CdP2-c

You'll have to provide your own pizza and drinks for this one.

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★ The talks

✩ Intro to BDD - Ciaran McNulty (@CiaranMcNulty)

Behaviour Driven Development techniques help us to ensure that the code we're writing is solving real-world problems. We will see how a BDD process can help us define a feature, write the code, and then validate the code using tools like Behat

✩ Effective (remote) Working - Hugh Noble (@HughNoble)

Most of us will be working from home at the moment and I thought it would be a good idea to share some techniques that can implement to help us to work effectively as a team remotely.

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★ Timings

19:00 – Dial in, get your webcam working, make yourself comfortable
19:05 – Welcome and meetup news
19:10 – Effective (remote) Working - Hugh Noble (@HughNoble)
19:25 – A little break
19:30 – Intro to BDD - Ciaran McNulty (@CiaranMcNulty)
20:15ish – End
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★ Sponsors

Our sponsors make this monthly event possible, so please take the time to check them out, and thank them for their support.

• Bruntwood - Platform (https://bruntwood.co.uk/our-locations/leeds/platform/) – Platform is a reinvention of a Leeds landmark offering workspace for businesses of all sizes, right at the heart of the city. With a range of co-working desks, serviced offices and full floor plates, get the space that works for you. Join a new community of communicators, cultivators and collaborators.

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• BJSS (https://www.bjss.com) - BJSS is the UK's leading privately-owned IT and Business Consultancy. As the winner of a Queen's Award for Enterprise, we work with the world's largest organisations, delivering the IT solutions that millions of people use every day. @BJSSLtd (https://twitter.com/BJSSLtd)