The presentation from my talk on Programmer Productivity at XP Days Indore 2010. The target audience was MCA students, faculty and members of IT industry in and around Indore.

4. Programmer Productivity Why worry ?

5. We love our computers 

6. They can do a lot more than we think !!!

7. But, we end up doing most of the hard work !!!

8. Programmers are expected to be highly productive especially with computers

13. Launching Applications – Find what you want

14. Fitt’s Law “ The time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance to and the size of the target ” T is the average time taken to complete the movement a is the start/stop time of the device (intercept) b is the inherent speed of the device (slope) D is the distance from the starting point to the center of the target W is the width of the target measured along the axis of motion

15. Fitt’s Law D W b a Cursor Target

16. Launching Applications – Tell what you want

17. Demo Quicksilver App Launcher (5 mins)

18. IDE – Integrated Development Environment

20. Demo Working with Eclipse (10 mins)

21. Activity Eclipse Shortcuts (15 mins)

23. Activity Eclipse Code Templates (15 mins)

27. Demo Virtual Desktops (5 mins) © ThoughtWorks 2008

31. Demo Selenium IDE (10 mins)

32. Demo Automator (10 mins)

37. DRY Documentation

38. Demo Migrations (10 mins)

39. References … and my personal experience working with agile teams

40. Q & A Contact: [email_address]