Methods & Tools is located in Switzerland, a country famous for its chocolate, watches… and banks. I was therefore participating to a banking IT conference last month. The CIO of a very large private banks revealed that 15% of employees of his company were working for the IT department. He …
Methods & Tools is a free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2010 issue has just been published with the following articles: * Aspects of Kanban – Lean Worfklow Management * Test Language – Introduction to Keyword Driven Testing * A High Volume Software Product Line * …
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Kevlin Henney presented a lively talk about the concepts of object and value in software development. Kevlin is a lively and wise presenter, so don’t miss this guy if you have the chance to be at a conference where he speaks. His talk was a kind of philosophical musing even …
The first keynote of the Jazoon conference was presented by Danny Coward. He mentioned that we were close to the 15 anniversary of Java that was officially announced May 23 1995. On the historical side, he also showed us a nice video of James Gosling demonstrating in 1992 a prototype …
I have published on DevAgile.com another report from the Jazoon conference in Zurich. Ken Schwaber talked about the importance of having a good definition of the concept of “done” and the lack of technical practices in Scrum projects that lead to technical debt. Read this report here
