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XPConf 2016: algunas cosas para importar en Latam
Quiero compartir algunas actividades que viví en la conferencia y que podría resultar interesante tenerlas presentes para la conferencia latinoamericana Agiles. Cena previa: la noche previa al inicio de la conferencia los organizadores realizaron reservas en diversos restaurantes cercanos al centro de conferencias para que los asistentes fueran a cenar en grupo con la intención… — read more
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XPConf 2016: Day 3 summary
The day started with a keynote by Professor Lionel Briand who talked about «Documented requirements are not useless after all». He presented really interesting stuff based on concrete study cases. I liked it. After the keynote I joined the session «Working effectively with legacy Test» by Nat Pryce and Duncan McGregor. The session started with a short… — read more
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XPConf 2016: Day 2, our workshop
We were a bit worried because we didn’t know how many people would attend our workshop. The conference agenda for that day was full of interesting sessions and attending to our full-day workshop would imply missing all those sessions. To our surprise we started the session with ~15 participants! After the ice-breaker activity we shared the… — read more
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XPConf 2016: Day 1 summary
The journey started with a very interesting keynote by Elizabeth Hendrickson who shared how they at doing XP at scale in Pivotal Labs. After that I went to the session Symbiotic Design Practices by Michael Feathers. In the afternoon I attended the session Example Mapping by the Cucumber guys. The session was very interactive and… — read more
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About our Modern XP tutorial @ XPConf 2016
Today we (@dfontde and me) will held this workshop that is focused on a set of practices we consider have take the main stage in software development over the last couple of years. During morning we will review the foundations of XP and we will share a backlog creation technique called User Story Mapping. In the afternoon we… — read more
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XPConf 2016: Pre-conference (day 0)
Day 0 is DONE. There was a set of pre-conference workshops. I attended to «Software Faster» full-day workshop facilitated by Dan North. Another workshops I considered before making my mind were: Mob Programming (Woody Zuill) and Exploratory Testing (Elisabeth Hendrickson). The workshop was useful, the main takeaways points for me were: some techniques to deal with legacy code… — read more