This talk focuses on what developers must attend to when building systems with Agile methods. It discusses an alternative to the choices of:

• Design for the future which often results in overdesign
• Not designing at all which often makes code difficult to change

The mantra of the talk is “minimizing complexity and rework” and shows how to use the advice from Design Patterns, coupled with the attitude of not building what you don’t need from Agile.

Join Alan Shalloway in two presentations which will help you from start to finish in an Agile software development project. The first, Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise with Lean Software Development, will help you to understand the Lean principles upon which Scrum is based which will enable you to adapt it to and scale it more effectively in your enterprise.

After ten years in the public eye, "Pair Programming" is still one of the most controversial and contentious of all agile programming practices. Appropriately, managers are concerned about the costs, and developers are concerned about the personal pain. In this seminar, we will expose some of the subtle yet high-dividend benefits of this discipline, and dispel lingering myths.