XP Day Switzerland, Geneva, March 29 2010

Published February 24th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Registration is now open for the second edition of the XP Day in Geneva. Building on the success of the first edition, the organizers have scheduled a program that should satisfy both people that want to discover what Agile is and practitioners that want to improve their agile practices. For the second year, the conference will host the Agile magicians duo composed of Portia Tung and Pascal Van Cauvenberghe that will present the “Coaching with the Wizard of Oz” Agile Fairytale.

This year the conference will also mix French- and English-speaking sessions, an improvement that should please people working for the multinational corporations and international organizations in the Lake of Geneva area.

Attendance is limited to 100 people, so be quick to register on http://www.xpday.ch/

March Software Development Conferences

Published February 23rd, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in March and that have media partnerships with Methods & Tools:

* Enterprise Software Development Conference, March 1-3 2010, San Mateo, USA

* CSM & Scrum in Depth Training with Ken Schwaber, March 3-4, Stuttgart, Germany

* TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 17-19 2010, Las Vegas, USA

* Turku Agile Day, March 17-18 2010, Turku, Finland

* Spring In Finance eXchange, March 18 2010, London, UK

* REConf 2010, March 15-18 2010, Munich, Germany

* XP Day Suisse Edition Francophone, March 29 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

* Agile Central Europe, April 8-9 2010, Krakow, Poland

Find more conferences on SoftDevConferences.com

Scrum Open Source Software Directory

Published February 22nd, 2010 Under Links | Leave a Comment

OpenSourceScrum.com is a new directory of open source tools for Scrum containing also links to tools reviews.

If you know a missing tool or a good review of an included tool, just let us know.

Debug It!

Published February 17th, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment

This book provides a structured approach that will help programmers to identify and remove bugs in code. It is based on a four steps process: Reproduce, Diagnose, Fix, Reflect. For each activity, the author provides practical material on how perform it. The second part gives a higher vision of the debugging process and deal with topics like communicating with users or prioritizing bugs treatment. Finally, the book discusses special situations and the relationship between bugs and other areas of software development (source control, build, etc.).

The book is easy to read and the material is presented in a very structured way with different “viewpoints” that help to understand the content. Besides the main text where important concepts are put in evidence, real life cases shows how things happen in the real world. There are also some “Joe asks…” sections where the author answer pertinent questions on the current topic.

With my many years of experience in supporting and debugging large existing enterprise systems, I have to say that Paul Butcher summarize and structure all the knowledge (and more) that I have, sometimes painfully, accumulated during this activity. This is therefore an excellent book that I will recommend to everybody that is involved in software development in general and maintenance activities specifically.

Reference: “Debug It!”, Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 214 pages, ISBN 978-1934356289

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