I hope everyone enjoyed themselves at the New York Code Camp  ‘07 today. Thanks Don. For the connection today. I enjoyed myself -there was a great bunch of interested people today. A few of us noted how popular the ‘agile room’ was. It was a ’standing room only’ set of sessions in the agile room. I wish I could of stayed for some of the afternoon chats - particularly the pairing session and the mocks session. Alas, I can only get babysitters for so long and my wife had an agenda today too

Anyhow - I got excellent feedback regarding my chat today on scaling agile practices. There is never enough time to go over some of this stuff - but we did alright today. The audience was engaged and asked lots of great questions. At the end of the event, as I was talking with a bunch of people - a developer came up to me and said something like the following:

 ”You know - I have been hearing about this agile stuff for some time, and trying to get a grasp on it. I have not truly appreciated the value of ‘Test First’ until today - thanks - that was great and so helpful.”

This was just what I was looking for. I hoped today to set people up to succeed at trying to ‘go do the agile thing’. Delivering the correct worldview and set of paradigms, along with a set of pragmattic, day to day, code level tools goes a long way.

Anyhow - attached is the slide deck from today - along with the example code.

Code Camp Demo Code

Slides Office 2007

Slides Pre Office 2007

-Chris

PS - I will be doing some serious work on sorting out my top ‘core developer values’ and I will post it in a series here. I will also be posting it for my current employer. These ‘core developer values’ are a big part of what it takes to be successfull with unit testing - having the right mindset and accompanying practices!

PPS - You guys who asked to come work with us - CONTACT ME- WE ARE TRYING TO HIRE C# DEVELOPERS - LOTS OF ‘EM!

 

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