Presentations and Papers
This page contains links and details about various presentations and papers I have given over the years.
Articles Published
Presentations and Workshops
- Agreeing to Agree (February, 2010) – Liv Wild and I presented a number of methods and techniques we’ve had success using in order to enhance collaboration and reduce unnecessary confrontations in team situations. We also discuss the importance of conflict and how it can be unhealthy to not have enough of it. Slides are available here.
- Top ten secret weapons for performance testing in an agile environment (August 2009, January 2010) – An experience report that my colleague Alistair Jones and I will be covering at Agile 2009. I repeated this presentation for the BCS London branch in January. The slides (as PPSX) are available here.
- Climbing the Dreyfus Ladder of Agile Practices (May 2009 & August 2009) – A workshop focused on mapping practices and behaviours to learning models using the Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition. I will be running this workshop at XP2009 and Agile 2009.
- Distributed Agile: An Oxymoron? (July 2008) – A talk about some lessons learned running distributed agile projects presented at the Butler Group Agile Masterclass. See the presentation here. Download a PDF version here (both about 4-5MB).
- The Agile Primer (July 2008) – An introduction to agile presented at the Manchester Geek night. See the presentation here. Download a PDF version here (both about 2-3MB).
- Biohazard: Engineering the Change Virus (June 2008) – A workshop that focuses on the forces that help and hinder change in organisations, with a focus on equipping people with ways of helping change occur.
- Improving Productivity and Quality with Agile (February 2008) – A presentation I gave to a client talking about how agile methods address productivity and quality issues on software projects. Download the presentation here.
- Reface Your Team Space (June 2007) – A workshop I ran brainstorming and reporting back ideas for improving information radiation for more effective working environments.
- Test Driving Your S-Wing! (June, September and December 2006) – A conference presentation I gave at the XP2006 and the Javazone 2006 conferences. I was also invited to Sweden to represent it at a session run by the Agical people. You can read more about it here.
- Unit Testing Overview (April 2003) – A brown bag presentation I held for developers at the Australian Development Centre for Oracle Australia, which I also repeated for the QA, testing and development managers at Oracle headquarters. The presentation can be found here, and an accompanying paper here (Word) and here (PDF).
- Refactoring Cheat Sheet (November 2002) - A cheat sheet listing names of refactors, short descriptions all categories appropriately. Word version here, PDF version here.
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