Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
I thoroughly enjoyed DevTeach the first time around and hope Vancouver goes just as well. I'm giving three talks over the first two days in the Agile track:
- Creating a Maintainable Software Ecosystem -- All the build, test, and configuration management stuff you can do to make the last minute change request safe to do.
- Design Patterns for Maintainable WinForms -- The first 10 or so installments of "Build your own CAB." Despite being in the Agile track, this talk is much more about patterns and design than process.
- How does design get done on an Agile project? -- This is the one I'm looking forward to. I'm going to try to lay down the reasoning behind doing Continuous Design instead of traditional upfront design, how Continuous Design can increase the value delivered to the customer, and what you need to know to do it efficiently and under control. I'm planning on throwing the session open for questions and discussion for the last half hour to make it more interactive.
Hope to see you there.
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
