What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile?
I've been teaching and coaching developers for little more than a
decade, as a full time teacher, as senior developer on teams and as a
coach and change agent. I tricked teams into doing iterative (and, yes
- incremental) development with two-week iterations in the late
nineties, conned teams to do XP early this decade, sneaked TDD
practices into teams-members minds in all teams I've been involved
with since then, and convinced and helped yet other teams to do Scrum
and XP-style practices the last few years.
Over the years, I've been working more and more explicitly as a coach
and change agent, so the amount of sneaking has degraded a lot over
the years. Nowadays it's very explicit to be honest.
What do you plan to learn /explore at this conference?
My TDD experience has tilted towards BDD since 2005. I started out
thinking BDD was more or less harmful to the community, but since then
completely changed my mind. Also, I've been interested in executable,
man-readable, specifications for a long time, and what currently
fascinates me the most is that we are experiencing very interesting
times in the area of Acceptance-Test Driven Development / BDD /
<insert other 'synonyms' here/>. The toolsets are getting better and
better, the "structured" language needed seems to be falling into
place and things look a lot better than it did just a few years ago.
I hope to meet more people who are chasing this "holy grail" and
exchange good and bad experiences in this area.
How do you plan to contribute?
By sharing experiences in this area and in other areas. I'd be happy
to give a lightning talks, for instance about the change when I
suddenly "got" BDD (from having been an avid non-supporter) and maybe
on other topics as well. I'm also an open-space junkie.
I've been teaching and coaching developers for little more than a
decade, as a full time teacher, as senior developer on teams and as a
coach and change agent. I tricked teams into doing iterative (and, yes
- incremental) development with two-week iterations in the late
nineties, conned teams to do XP early this decade, sneaked TDD
practices into teams-members minds in all teams I've been involved
with since then, and convinced and helped yet other teams to do Scrum
and XP-style practices the last few years.
Over the years, I've been working more and more explicitly as a coach
and change agent, so the amount of sneaking has degraded a lot over
the years. Nowadays it's very explicit to be honest.
What do you plan to learn /explore at this conference?
My TDD experience has tilted towards BDD since 2005. I started out
thinking BDD was more or less harmful to the community, but since then
completely changed my mind. Also, I've been interested in executable,
man-readable, specifications for a long time, and what currently
fascinates me the most is that we are experiencing very interesting
times in the area of Acceptance-Test Driven Development / BDD /
<insert other 'synonyms' here/>. The toolsets are getting better and
better, the "structured" language needed seems to be falling into
place and things look a lot better than it did just a few years ago.
I hope to meet more people who are chasing this "holy grail" and
exchange good and bad experiences in this area.
How do you plan to contribute?
By sharing experiences in this area and in other areas. I'd be happy
to give a lightning talks, for instance about the change when I
suddenly "got" BDD (from having been an avid non-supporter) and maybe
on other topics as well. I'm also an open-space junkie.