Presentation: "Trends in Agile Development"

Time: Wednesday 09:00 - 10:00

Location: Metropolitan Ballroom

Abstract: Agile development has become popular because it reinforces and takes advantages of trends in the larger world of business. I will describe how software development can become more effective and relevant through accountablity, transparency, and responsibility and how software developers can prepare for their role in such development.

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Kent Beck

 Kent  Beck

Kent Beck is widely recognized as the father of eXtreme Programming and JUnit. He is the Founder and Director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI).

His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming.

He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide.

He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.