During the Kanban Leaders Retreat (KLRUS) in San Diego last November of 2012, several leading kanban coaches, trainers, and practitioners participated in a session focused on identifying some of the “surprising” myths and misconceptions about the Kanban Method observed as they coach, train, and guide others on work sites.
Nowadays the label Functional is everywhere. There are more functional oriented languages in the JVM such as Clojure or Scala, but Groovy also has its…”Functional side”. Learn how to adopt functional style programming in Groovy and what are the tools Groovy bring us to implement functional code.
We have created lots of tools which are intended to structure fuzzy or unclear business needs. We have created use cases, user stories, acceptance test and so forth. Although the tools above were designed to improve collaboration with customers , we use them to hide ourselves from business people. Instead …
This talk is about the lean startup movement and how its ideas can be applied in order to incrementally build a product based on validated learning. We will discuss how adding features without first identifying our assumptions leads to waste. We’ll then see how experiments in the form of minimum …
Big up front design is discouraged in Agile development. However, we know that architecture plays a significant part in software systems. Evolving architecture during the development of an application seems to be a risky business. This presentation discusses the reasons to evolve the architecture, some of the core principles that …
This presentation looks at what kind of tools the Ruby community is good at building, what kind of tools we are bad at, and most of all, some of the tooling we should be working on to really improve our ecosystem and drive more developers to this wonderful language.
