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BayXP July Meeting | |
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Building 14, Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park |
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Date: |
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
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Topic: |
The Value of Refactoring on an Agile Team |
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Agenda: |
RSVP required. |
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Meeting Abstract: |
Refactoring is often viewed as a technique to clean up existing messy code. If that were always true, then Agile projects would require up-front design, because teams rarely get around to those "big refactorings," and rarely will a Scrum PO or XP Customer buy (prioritize) a "refactoring story." In truth, Agile processes require design to emerge. Rob will describe what it means to refactor clean, well-tested code. He will also demonstrate the actual business value of refactoring, and suggest ways to make sure refactoring and Emergent Design are given the necessary time to flourish. Besides the talk, Agile Institute will provide the following: Food: Probably pizza, with plenty of vegetarian pizza available. Beverages: The usual suspects. Raffle: Two prizes. First prize winner gets to choose, 2nd gets the remaining prize:
Raffle logistics: We may try a tournament of "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock". You can prepare for the tournament using these visual aids: |
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Presenter Bio: |
Rob Myers is lead instructor and co-founder of Agile Institute, and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative. For over 10 years, Rob has played a key role in numerous successful Agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP) projects. Rob has been training and coaching teams in Agile practices and object-oriented programming since 1999. During his more than 20 years in various software development roles, he has enjoyed consulting for leading companies in the aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors. |
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