Agile Houston Meeting October 22nd - "Agile Engineering" w/ James Shore

[Ben Rady]

October 22nd 2007 - 6:30pm
3100 Main St, Suite 900
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Sponsored by PROS

Agile Engineering: No Debt, No Defects
Presented by James Shore

Agile methods place high demands on developers: every iteration--as often as every week--the team must deliver working, tested software to their customers. Every iteration, the team may be asked to change direction and work on an entirely new set of requirements. To meet this challenge, agile engineering practices are a must. Join James for a discussion of how Extreme Programming's engineering practices mesh together to allow teams to approach the ideal of software with no defects and no technical debt. Practices discussed include pair programming, ten-minute builds, continuous integration, incremental and evolutionary design, test-driven development, and more.

About The Speaker:
James Shore is an award-winning agile practitioner and coach. A professional software developer since 1994, he has been leading teams in success and failure since 1999. In 2005, he was awarded with the Agile Alliance's Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice. His recent book, The Art of Agile Development (coauthored with Shane Warden), will be published by O'Reilly in September. Find more of his work on his website.