Agile Software Development

In a lot of large software projects there are some very critical requirements that require very critical choices be made early. For example, when building large web-application that has to sustain millions of requests per minute, a choice of the database, database schema and scalability options can play a critical role, yet it might be impossible to decide upfront which option suits your needs better. Typical agile-style decision would be to run a couple of architecture spikes to stress-test the potential solutions. Unfortunately sometimes such trials can take as much time as a half of the whole project.

Photos from the last day of the XP2006 conference.

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Keynote speech by Kent Beck: "Responsible Development: Making the Most Out of Reality"

Photos from the second post-tutorial day of the XP2006 conference.

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Photos from the first post-tutorial evening of the XP2006 conference.

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Photos from the second tutorial day of the XP2006 conference.

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The first day of the actual conference

Photos from the evening of the second tutorial day of the XP2006 conference.

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Pub in the Oulu Harbor

Photos from the second tutorial day of the XP2006 conference.

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Tutorial "From concept to cash: Deliver fast" by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

The 7th International conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering is going to take place on June 17-22, 2006, Oulu, Finland. According to the program, despite its name the conference is going to be focused more on the Agile Processes, than exactly on XP.

Among the speakers there are Kent Beck, the father of eXtreme Programming; Mike Cohn, the founder of Mountain Goat Software - strong Scrum supporter; Michael Feathers, author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code and a lot of other Agile Alliance founding members and board members.