Speaking at SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp

I’m doing 3 talks – maybe more – at the SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp this year January 27 & 28th, 2008, at the Cal State Fullerton Campus. 

Agile Development Basics  – In this presentation I cover the Agile values and principles, as well as the a little about why we need something like Agile.

A Quick Introduction to Scrum – Here I’ll present the who, what, and how of Scrum.  Scrum is one of the most common methodologies for managing an Agile effort.

Agile Coding Techniques for Legacy Apps – This talk shows various techniques for introducing unit tests and micro tests into an application that has insufficient tests. 

Last year the Code Camp was a lot of fun with a lot of great presentations and get-togethers with fellow developers.  I’m looking forward to seeing everyone again and learning a lot of new, useless stuff.


2 Comments

  1. Craig Jones:

    Hi Woody,

    You gave some terrific presentations at Code Camp. You are a very engaging speaker. Thanks.

    In the Scrum Intro, you displayed a nifty animation showing how the Scrum task board works — with blue story cards and yellow task cards moving from left to right as the iteration progresses. How can I get hold of that animation?

    // Craig

  2. Woody Z.:

    Hello Craig,

    Thanks for the kind words!

    I am going to try to put that together as a Flash animation in the next few days and post it here somehow. I am pretty sure that I must have seen a similar example of a “time-elapsed” animation showing a taskboard as the sprint progresses – but I haven’t been able to locate it. If anyone finds that please let me know.

    In the meantime, I’ll see if I can get this together.

    Cheers,
    Woody Z.

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