Chris Parsons
Chris is an an experienced technical leader, programmer, speaker and trainer with a strong business and commercial focus. He runs technology as CTO of Gower Street, a growing data analytics company in the movie business. He has consulted in technical architecture, agile management and adoption, and advised C-level executives on product strategy and how to manage technical teams. He has trained and coached technical teams in BDD, automated testing, clean code and great team practices. He has been writing software professionally for 20 years in a wide range of sectors.
Talks I've Given
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A Chaotic Journey to a Vague (Yet Effective) Process
Featuring Chris Parsons
Chris recently took a growing team through from 4 back end developers to a multi team structure that has no hierarchy, several short-lived teams, and has focused coaching built in to encourage people to generalise. Come, listen and learn the story of how Chris and team built their own process...
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The Lean Code Challenge
Featuring Chris Parsons
In this hands-on session for the London Software Craftmanship Community, the challenge will be to build a brand new piece of software for a demanding customer. Form a team of 2-4 people and try and satisfy requirements as quickly as you can.
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Chris Parsons: The crowd-sourced talk.
Featuring Chris Parsons
As is now traditional, we devote the February London Ruby User Group meeting to lightning talks. The last talk comes from Chris Parsons and is the infamous crowd-sourced talk.
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Lessons learned BDD-ing a command-line utility gem
Featuring Chris Parsons
In this talk Chris will take us through how he test-drove the development of a command line utility built as a gem, designed to connect to servers via SSH and HTTP.
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Software Craftsmanship Ideas & Eden
Featuring Chris Parsons
Chris Parsons will talk about how craftsmanship ideas have been applied at Eden, showing there doesn't have to be a conflict between these two goals.
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Chris Parsons - BBD with Cucumber and RSpec
Featuring Chris Parsons
Chris Parsons - BBD with Cucumber and RSpec
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Cucumber and BDD techniques
Featuring Chris Parsons
Chris Parsons, CEO of Eden Development will host a free half day sessions on Cucumber and Behaviour Driven Development techniques.
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