Monday, July 25 • 3:45pm – 5:00pm
Data is the lifeblood of our organizations, supporting real-time business processes and decision making. It is crucial to the success of software development, and to our organization as a whole, that we apply agile and lean strategies to data-oriented activities. Yet for many organizations their data sources prove to be less than trustworthy and their data-oriented development efforts little more than productivity sinkholes. We can, and must, do better.
Wednesday, July 27 • 2:00pm – 3:15pm
Few teams have a strong sense of whether or not an area of code is dead or moribund – yet that information is vital. When we have it, we can remove distracting code and simplify our systems in the process.
Tuesday, July 26 • 3:45pm – 5:00pm
Ron & Chet’s Stalwarts Session (Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson)
- *Ideas for self-improvement
- *Ideas for better teamwork
- *People not to grow up to be like
Tuesday, July 26 • 9:00am – 10:15am
Understand why we use agile practices, in terms that work not only for developers, but for anyone who might be the member of an agile team