Agile 2008 – Technical Lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven!

07/08/200802/04/2017 / Craig Smith / 1 Comment

My presentation with Paul King from Agile 2008 called “Technical Lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven!” is available on Slideshare.

Developer practices for traditional and agile Java development are well understood and documented. But dynamic languages – Groovy, Ruby, and others – change the ground rules. Many of the common practices, refactoring techniques, and design patterns we have been taught either no longer apply or should be applied differently and some new techniques come into play. In this talk, techniques for agile development with dynamic languages are discussed. How should we better apply refactoring techniques? What new aspects do we need to think about?

The session was recorded and is available on InfoQ.

The corresponding paper is available via the IEEE and is also available in full via the Agile Academy.

Agile 2008 – Agile Project Experiences: The Story of Three Little Pigs

05/08/200802/04/2017 / Craig Smith / 1 Comment

My presentation with Paul King from Agile 2008 called “Agile Project Experiences: The Story of Three Little Pigs” is available on Slideshare.

Over the last few years, we have aggressively applied agile practices on a number of projects with success. These successes, however, have not been achieved without challenges and lessons learnt along the way. This experience report specifically highlights examples from three different projects of varying sizes in this period in the same organisation (three little pigs) where in all cases the pigs were well and truly committed.

Some of the key successes from the example projects will also be discussed.

The corresponding paper is available via the IEEE and is also available in full via the Agile Academy.

Take 43

27/11/200705/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Welcome to my blog. The aim of this blog for me is a place to record stuff that I come across in my working life. And why CDS 43? Well it’s a play on words and could mean: