The document discusses promoting technical excellence in agile development. It advocates for practices like test-driven development, automated testing, and refactoring code to ensure high quality. It also encourages managers to focus on quality over schedules and allow time for developers to practice techniques like testing.

1. In Search of Technical Excellence Wouter Lagerweij @wouterla http://www.lagerweij.com/ Qualogy @qualogy_news http://www.qualogy.com/

3. 35% of companies use some form of Agile

4. Results are encouraging Agile Forrester research, jan. 2011

8. Promote Individual Change and Lead Organizational Change

9. Organize Knowledge and Improve Education

10. Maximize Value Creation Across the Entire Process

11. “ 14 percent, are doing extreme programming practices inside the SCRUM, and there is where we see the fastest teams: using the SCRUM management practice with the XP engineering practices inside.” - Jeff Sutherland, 2011 http://2011.secr.ru/lang/en-en/home/press-center/jeff-sutherland-interview Technical Excellence

12. Extreme Programming http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingCorePractices

14. Unit Tests

15. Test-First

16. Red, Green, Refactor

17. Why Automated Tests?

18. Why Automated Tests?

19. Remember the goal

20. Remember the goal

22. Fine grained => pinpoint errors

23. Code documentation that is in sync

24. Supports changing the code Why Unit Tests?

25. Why Test First?

26. Why Test First?

29. Loosly Coupled

31. We don't have the time! Why NOT ?

32. Software will always have bugs! Why NOT ?

33. My boss won't let me! Why NOT ?

34. Legacy code is hard to test! Why NOT ?

37. Learn to say 'No' How?

39. Encourage teams to set their own standards

40. Encourage people to take training

41. Reserve time for practice How?

42. Thanks! Wouter Lagerweij @wouterla http://www.lagerweij.com/ Qualogy @qualogy_news http://www.qualogy.com/

44. 4 places to hold them

45. A schedule you can fill

46. 1 Law, 4 Principles, 2 animals

47. The Law of Two Feet If any person finds themselves in a situation where they're neither learning nor contributing , they must use their two feet and go to some more productive place !

49. Whenever it starts is the right time

50. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have

51. When it's over, it's over

53. It's possible to be in multiple places at the same time