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Agile Coaching Secrets
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies is author of the first “Agile Coaching” book and an invited speaker to software conferences worldwide. Rachel started out working as a software developer and became fascinated with debugging software organizations.
Her mission is to create workplaces where developers enjoy delivering valuable software. She's been working in the field of Agile software development since 2000 and pioneered techniques that are now used by teams all around the globe. Rachel currently works at Unruly, the leading global platform for social video marketing and is the organiser of Extreme Programmers London meetup.
Creating Proximity over a Distance
Jutta Eckstein
Jutta Eckstein is an independent coach, consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. She has helped many teams and organization
Scala, Groovy, JRuby, Clojure - Which JVM language is for you?
Dierk Koenig
Dierk König works as a fellow for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is a committer to Groovy and Grails, and a manager of the open-source Canoo WebTest project. He is the lead author of "Groovy in Action" book.
Guillaume LaForge
Guillaume is the Groovy Project Manager. Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, the company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy / Grails and providing professional services around those technologies.
Irresponsible architectures
Daniel Terhorst-North
Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over thirty years of experience in IT, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences worldwide.
Thoughts on the Generic vs. Specific Tradeoff
Stefan Tilkov
Stefan was a founder and Principal Consultant at INNOQ Germany, where he spent his time alternating between advising customers on new technologies and taking the blame from his co-workers for doing so. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and author of numerous articles. He supported Skills Matter many times throughout the years, notably as a member of our first Technical Advisory Board.
Pragmatic Architecture Recipes for Cloud Computing
Stefan Tilkov
Stefan was a founder and Principal Consultant at INNOQ Germany, where he spent his time alternating between advising customers on new technologies and taking the blame from his co-workers for doing so. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and author of numerous articles. He supported Skills Matter many times throughout the years, notably as a member of our first Technical Advisory Board.
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Effective use of Agile-Trac for distributed Agile Projects
Featuring Jamie Allsop
There are many tools available to help with agile development. Agile-Trac (http://www.agile-trac.org) is a free and open-source extension to the popular trac open source project management tool. Unlike other open-source offerings Agile-Trac aims to offer a complete solution for supporting agile...
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Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools
Featuring Kevlin Henney
Although it is a simple value, the idea that individuals and interactions are more significant than processes and tools is overlooked perhaps more often than it is valued.
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Agile Rebooted
Featuring Immo Hüneke
How was the exercise structured and what did the team members gain from it? How successful is this model?
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Thoughts on the Generic vs. Specific Tradeoff
Featuring Stefan Tilkov
In this talk, Stefan will illustrate how this problem manifests itself in many different scenarios, outline the pros and cons of both the extreme as well as in-the-middle solutions, and derive a guideline on how to deal with it.
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Agile Coaching Secrets
Featuring Rachel Davies
You want to guide your team to become more Agile and learn how to get the best from powerful new practices, such as Test-Driven Development and User Stories.
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Creating Proximity over a Distance
Featuring Jutta Eckstein
Agility asks for face-to-face communication, trust and collaboration. Proximity can be created by travelling - at least sometimes. Virtual communication channels provide another possibility overcoming the distance.
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dm Server 2.0
Featuring Glyn Normington
dm Server is a modular open source application server based on OSGi. It supports standard WAR files and modular webapps comprising OSGi bundles.
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Scala, Groovy, JRuby, Clojure - Which JVM language is for you?
Featuring Guillaume LaForge and Dierk Koenig
In this discussion, panel members Dierk König, Guillaume Laforge (Groovy), Charles Nutter (JRuby), Stefan Tilkov (Clojure) and Ted Neward (Scala) discuss with the audience the pros and cons of the popular JVM-based lanauges Scala, Groovy, JRuby and Clojure in order to attempt to reach a verdict...
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Irresponsible architectures
Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North
Since the very first days of software we have been developing strategies to support ever bigger and more complex application requirements.
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Pragmatic Architecture Recipes for Cloud Computing
Featuring Stefan Tilkov
Cloud Computing, the industry's next big buzzword, is applied liberally to ensure services and products are perceived as being cool and innovative.
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Declarative Services: Dependency Injection OSGi style
Featuring Felix Meschberger
In this talk, Felix Meschberger presents a powerful but straightforward method of dependency injection (as defined by the OSGi Compendium Declarative Services specification).
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OSGi-based Workflow Engine
Featuring Doreen Seider
In this talk Doreen Seider introduces a platform developed during an aeronautics project, RCE. She presents it as a distributed OSGi-based software integration platform to provide a workflow engine, whereby all information about its workflow component (inputs and outputs) are described...
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Pax Exam 2.0 – Testing in the Cloud
Featuring Toni Menzel
In this talk, Toni Menzle explains the new idea brewing underneath the new version of PaxExam, 2.0 – a tool used to ease testing of OSGi frameworks and applications.
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