Showing posts with label Conferences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conferences. Show all posts

Monday, 23 January 2012

What I’ll be doing at Agile Practitioners 2012

I’ve been quiet for some time now. mainly because I was very busy in making Agile Practitioners 2012 event happen. It was and still is a lot of work but most of it is fun and I do hope that all the people coming will enjoy it.
over the last couple of weeks I’ve been asked a couple of times what would be good session to go to. basically I don’t know all of the speakers are good and while I haven't heard all of them speaking those I did had excellent sessions. Its really hard to choose from them.
But out of all of them here's a list of those I’m planning to to attend.
of the three available workshops (Gojko, David and Corey) ill attend the Improving your TDD. ITs not often that I have the chance to hear about my main passion from leaders of the industry and this rare opportunity is too much for me to pass. (I do hope I’ll have the chance to peek in the two others though)
On the second day naturally ill hear the two main keynotes.
but other then that I think ill go with the following:
1) Agile Meets the Falafel-Land: Culture Clash or Common Cause?
While at the end I do believe people are people, the notion about us being a little different then the rest does appeal to me. and it would be great to hear how other people deal with things that are unique to our culture.
2) 10 Phrases That Can Derail an Agile Project
Being a close friend of Gil I had a couple of chances to hear him and I enjoyed it every time.Also I have a feeling that this session will have a few practical lessons for me to learn. Gil is really bringing some Product Owner wisdom and knowledge that I find very useful in my line of business.
3) Design For Testeblity is a Fraud
while I already heard this session before. I think it will be a little hard for me to skip this one.
4) Weaning a Legacy Platform From Offshore QA
I Find offshoring to be a very weird concept. one of those things that sounds like a very good idea until you actually try to do it. Too many times I’ve seen it fail. While I respect the fact that in some contexts that may be good idea. I still would like to be prepared to the day when someone asks me to help bring work back.
5) The Mythical Man-Month –
An Agile Perspective

Hearing about Brooks is always a good idea. Besides this is my first chance to hear Ohad, something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time now.

So what session you are planning on going to? if you still haven’t decided that’s ok. But if you haven’t already registered Shame on you, quickly before anyone notice go here and register. There’s still enough time and a few places left

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Agile Practitioners 2012 Update

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I think this is my first post on the conference, so lets start from the beginning.
On January the 31st. We will be having a big agile day conference locally in Israel. We have been working in the last few months to make everything happen, from bringing in international speakers, looking for great content locally to arranging for a place to host the event.
we also brought up a website for the conference: http://agilepractitioners2012.com/. go there to get more details about what the conference is about.
I would like to let you know (and remind those who do know) that the call for paper is still open and we are still looking for great sessions given by great people to have in the day.
if you have anything worth sharing please come and suggest a session: http://agilepractitioners2012.com/call-for-papers/
the call for paper is open until October the 16th, don’t miss it.

Monday, 27 June 2011

5 Reasons for Doing Scrum

A while back ago I gave a talk about what are the main benefits any organization should expect when changing its process into an agile (Scrum) process.

Here is the recording of that session. Its about 50 minutes long and its in Hebrew.

Hope you enjoy it

Monday, 6 June 2011

Video of my talk at “QA & Development In Agile” conference

Last month I spoke at “QA & Development in Agile” gathering. SELA were kind enough to video my talk and to make it avail;able online.

Details about the talk (with the actual slides) can be found here.

and if you want to tune in and listen to the actual talk (about 30 minutes in Hebrew) you can do it here.

Also I would appreciate any feedback you can share. So feel free to add your comments.

Monday, 23 May 2011

Presenting at Sela’s Developers Days 2011

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Towards the end of June I’ll be participating in Sela’s “Dev. Days” conference. Unlike other conference, “Dev Days” event is a collection of 1 full days workshops that will be given over the span of an entire week. During this week there will be 25 different workshops in various subject aiming at beginners and advanced Developers alike.

My part in this event will be 2 workshop that I’ll be having:

1. Introduction to Scrum

At this workshop ill be going over the principles of agile. I will show the basic Scrum process and technique and will demonstrate the key differences between Agile way of doing things and classical waterfall approaches.

If you are want to know what the agile buzz is all about I really recommend attending this day.

2. Introduction to Test-Driven Development

TDD has established itself as one of the leading practices in the Agile community. However there are several obstacles in actually starting to TDD. The goal of this day is to give all participant a good starting point for actually starting to code in the TDD style.

If you ever wanted to give TDD a go, but always found it hard to start. Maybe this day will get you going

2 other related workshop that might be of interest in the context of agile and testing are:

Team Foundation Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools. but of course the week has many more very interesting workshops. for the full agenda go here and if you want to register follow this link.

Sunday, 22 May 2011

My Presentation at “QA and Development in Agile”

This is the presentation I gave last week over at the “QA and Development in Agile” conference (including some extra slides the I didn’t have the time to go over). Unlike other presentation this one was solely process related and not about any tool so I hope everyone enjoyed it.

The main pint o the talk was that its more important to optimize the team feature throughput than the team utilization and I hope I managed to get it across.

Scrum Project Management

Would you like hear me present? Contact me!

and in any case would love to get your feedback on the experience.

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Iteration Zero – using Testify

One approach when starting out a new project is to dedicate the first sprint/iteration in order to build in the framework for the development process. that is building in all the stuff which will be required during the time life of the product. things life setting up the build server, preparing the installer establishing the framework for unit and acceptance testing. in short all the technical details an agile development environment expect to just be there.

Today I managed to go into Mike Scott session in which he demonstrated his very nice tool called “Testify”.

I don't want to go into all the details since it appears that just today Mike has finished to ‘open source’ the tool. (can be found here). I would however say that during the short time in the session (about an hour), Mike has managed to create a new project which contained :

  1. Some source.
  2. Executable Unit tests (using NUnit)
  3. Executable Acceptance tests – using fit
  4. Setup a source control repository (Subversion based)
  5. and Setup a continuous build server (using CC.Net)

Since I have done this kind of things a couple of times. i was really really impressed.

Monday, 12 October 2009

Agile Testing Days - ATDD

I went to Berlin for the Agile Testing Days Conference. I’ve join Elisabteth Hendrikson tutorial about ATDD, while is full day tutorial about the basic concepts and technique of doing ATDD. fro me this is a great opportunity to augment my knowledge about best practices tools and idea of how to improve my ATDD skills.

In the first part what really stood out for me is the time we spent about the various silos existing in a typical development environment. Specifically what i liked best is the emphasis Elisabeth puts about the need to break up those silos focusing on only establishing a clear separation between the role of deciding the “What” and the role of building the “How”. she quoted Tobias Mayer which defines in this post these roles as “The What voice” and “The How Tribe”

 
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