BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T020000 RDATE:20150308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150624T042306Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150807T130000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150807T120000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150624T042306Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150624T042306Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250468684 DESCRIPTION:This June Cotten Blackwell's Agile team started a 3-month pil ot adoption of pair programming and TDD – almost exactly as practiced du ring Coderetreats (http://coderetreat.org/facilitating/structure-of-a-co deretreat)\, which they used to kick off their pilot and can’t recommend strongly enough. \;\n \;\nSo exactly how did they get management and team approval (and active support) for TDD/pair programming? \;\n \;\nWell\, they are definitely blessed with Product Managers (and Di rectors) who are very big-picture\, and highly open to persuasive busine ss cases grounded in data and metrics. But\, they think that *how* they made the business and technical case for pair programming and TDD is wo rth sharing – and that much of it might be highly applicable to *your* t eam. \;\n \;\nBio: \;\nCotten Blackwell is an engineering manag er\, Agile champion and Swift developer with over 15 years experience le ading\, coaching and mentoring software development teams. For the last four years he’s been doing that at Huron Consulting Group\, where he’s known for his focus on improving team health and employee development an d retention. Cotten has driven continuous improvements in Huron’s maste ry of Agile and Lean Startup fundamentals\, and has leveraged multiple s oftware teams to more consistently\, more deeply engage in risk identifi cation\, analysis and mitigation. \;\n \;\n \;\nRSVP's to jean@ azuregate.net very welcome but not required.\n\nTags: agile AgilePDX\n\n Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250468684 URL:http://www.agilepdx.org SUMMARY:AgilePDX Dntn Pub Lunch: Making the Business and Technical Case for Pair Programming and TDD LOCATION:McMenamins Ringlers Pub: 1332 W Burnside St.\, Portland Oregon 9 7209 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR