Philip Japikse
An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, developing software for over 20 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005. Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), and serves as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group Phil is also the founder and president of Agile Conferences, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to advancing agile in all aspects of software development. In his spare time, Phil works part-time as a Firefighter/Paramedic, serves as Cub Master for his sons’ Cub Scout Pack, and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. You can follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog.
Website URL: http://www.skimedic.com/blog
Agile Workshop
"You got your agile processes in my engineering practices!” “Well, you got your engineering practices in my agile processes!” All too often teams working towards agility stand divided between the processes (such as Scrum and Kanban) and the engineering practices (such as Extreme Programming). To be truly effective, you need both! Just as two dueling pianists work together to make great music, we will show you the way to be truly agile is to blend both concepts together into a single great harmony.
Introduction to Context Specification - Behavior Driven Development
Improved Quality. Better Design. SOLID Code. These are all benefits of driving your design with tests. But where Test Driven Development falls short is in retaining the User's Voice. User Stories are a great tool, but not always a natural way of speaking for non-geeks. I will show you the power of writing Context Specifications in the User's voice, and then use Machine.Specifications (MSpec) to turn those specs into test driven code that all parties can understand! I assume the attendees have a solid foundation in Test Driven Development.