Turku Agile Day (workshops)

I participated the first day of Turku Agile Day. The day consisted of two workshop sessions. In the morning I joined the session on exploratory testing presented by Maaret Pyhäjärvi. We had a change to try out testing Freemind, which gave me several good insights on how to enjoy testing!

In the afternoon I participated in coding dojo lead by Markus Hjort. We attacked a simplified version of battleship game using TDD and pair programming. Quite a bit of the session went to discussing different styles and approaches to design, which slowed down the development but was interesting nevertheless.

Both sessions were well worth attending. It was a pity that I was only able to arrange one day for this event.

http://www.turkuagileday.fi/

Agile Dinner Tampere

Theme on the dinner was refactoring. I presented a refactoring demonstration where I refactored code together with the audience. We we able to cover basics (reorganizing, renaming, extracting parts) somewhat together with some related topics on clean code.

I think the presentation went well, as a decent first iteration. I certainly learned a lot from this dinner. However, it might be better to restrict the material to either for beginners or for people already familiar with refactoring. An hour is certainly too little for this topic, and possibility for everyone to do it on their own pace would be help, too.

http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Tampere+20100316

Coding Session Tampere

We had the fourth Sprint of the Coffee Maker project. The Team delivered the two stories left unfinished last time. They also took a third story into this Sprint but were not able to finish it due to tests failing on some developer machines.

I combined the web pages into one, so the link below is to an older version of the main page.

http://confluence.agilefinland.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=6062160