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Uncle Bob's Agile Principles Patterns Practices & Planning

Uncle Bob returns to Skills Matter in October to deliver his new five-day course on the key Agile principles for OO development. This is the only scheduled date in 2013.

During this five-day course, Uncle Bob introduces the Principles, Patterns and Practices of professional Agile Object-Oriented development in Java and Agile Planning and Estimating. You will learn through a balanced combination of lectures and hands-on exercises that reinforce the concepts and practices. You'll work with a single web-based example program and its associated unit tests. Throughout the course you will continuously improve that program by successively applying the principles, practices and patterns being learnt.

Next course date: October 21st - October 25th
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Uncle Bob's Test Driven Development and Refactoring Workshop

In this two-day Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Refactoring workshop, you will learn the principles and practices as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. This course alternates between lecture and exercise so that you can experience, first-hand, the practices and disciplines of these fundamental topics.

Next course date: September 12th & 13th
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Uncle Bob Martin's Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organisation to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this three-day Clean Code Workshop you will learn the principles and practices of Clean Code as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.

Next course date: July 8th & 9th
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Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Development Workshop

This hands-on, two-day workshop immerses you deeply in Test Driven Development. You'll be coding straight from the start, interrupted only by very short presentations to explain the practices to put things into a wider perspective. It is based on the very latest tools, current knowledge and ideas from the community. This workshop was authored by Gojko Adzic and is delivered by Damjan Vujnovic.

Next course date: April 16th - 17th
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Ashic Mahtab's Fast-Track to Git

Join us at Skills Matter for this hands-on, intensive Git course. Alongside Ashic Mahtab, you will look at what makes Git tick – but instead of dwelling on lots of theoretical material, you will quickly dive into practical work that will be beneficial in day to day activities. If you're interested in Git - whether you're a developer, tester, project manager or architecture - and want to get to grips with all it's features, this course is for you!

Next course date: April 8th - 9th
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Masterclass: Reducing Technical Debt with Michael C. Feathers

Technical Debt is a catch-all term that we use for entropy in software development. Systems grow, become unruly, and difficult to work with. In this new course, Michael Feathers will outline what he has learned about making big changes in large software projects. You'll learn techniques all along the continuum of team coordinated refactoring, rewriting, and advanced team practice which help you maximize the potential of your existing code base.

Next course date: April 10th-11th
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Paul Stack's Continuous Integration & Delivery workshop

Continuous Integration is a fundamental pillar of running an Agile project. With the recent popularity of continuous delivery and continuous deployment, it is becoming even more common to ship fixes and features to customers more quickly. However, CI/CD requires a shift in mindset throughout the team and organisation. Attend this course delivered by CI/CD expert Paul Stack to learn how to cope with these changes, understand how to work efficiently with tools, and put in place good practices for CI/CD can have a drastic improvement on your project, team and organisation.

Next course date: March 14th - 15th // May 16th - 17th
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