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Software, Faster • Dan North • GOTO 2016

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Tools and practiceSoftware designSimplicity and complexityCode review and teamworkRefactoring and legacy code

Dan North shares patterns of highly effective software teams, challenging agile dogmas and explaining when to copy-paste instead of abstracting.

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2016. #gotocon #gotoams gotoams.nl Dan North - Agile Troublemaker, Developer, Originator of BDD @daniel-terhorst-north ABSTRACT Some teams are orders of magnitude more effective than others. Kent Beck famously described himself as "not a great programmer, but a good programmer with great habits". For the last few years Dan North has been working with, and observing [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here: gotocon.com/amsterdam-2016/presentation/Software,%20Faster RECOMMENDED BOOKS Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • amzn.to/2XjbWor Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • amzn.to/3tpAqb5 Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • amzn.to/3hB4eNk Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • amzn.to/3muIlCm Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time • amzn.to/2X4GQAD twitter.com/GOTOcon linkedin.com/company/goto- instagram.com/goto_con facebook.com/GOTOConferences #agile #agileDevelopment #DanNorth #DanielTerhorstNorth CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1

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What people say. Recommended for its pragmatic take on software delivery and the Ginger Cake pattern of choosing duplication over premature abstraction.

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Alternative view: introducing abstraction too early couples components in ways you might not want. Copy-paste, used very carefully, can elide this. Dan North talks about it better than I can in his Ginger Cake behavior at link to this video (minute 32.5 or so)
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