In a quick survey, 17 of 20 programmers said they didn’t know how to slice feature requests to the sub-day level. In contrast, top programmers easily take them to 15-30 minute programming episodes. What does it take for people to make the transition? In this workshop, analysts and programmers will …
While there is certainly more to testing than unit testing, and more to a well-rounded approach to development than just testing, a failure to appreciate the role and practice of unit testing can lead to disappointment or a skewed notion of testing as a programmer’s responsibility. This session aims to …
This seminar talk will traverse the territory of architectural style within enterprise applications. Beginning with a brief survey of the prior art, it will propose candidate names and typical characteristics of architectural styles observed in the wild. Approaches to classifying architectural styles will be addressed, and potential benefits of classification …
Talk by Alan Atlas at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The talk analyzes scrum using the seven principles of Lean software development. At the end, it proposed that the root of why scrum works is contained in these things: * One-piece flow * Self-organizing teams * Tight feedback loops * …
Recent work by James Coplien (the course instructor) with Scrum inventor Jeff Sutherland came to a radical conclusion: that though Scrum sounds very simple on the surface, it is in fact painfully intricate underneath (see http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/2008/02/scrum-and-organizational-patterns.html). There is a well-understood incremental (agile!) path to making Scrum work. Understanding this path, …
Most Rails integration efforts revolve around integrating with third party vendors, but much less is being said about how a Rails based application can be a key contributer and consumer of different apps and legacy databases in an enterprise environment. This is the story of PIT, the Programme Information Toolkit, …