Coding Is Like Cooking

A blog by Emily Bache

XP2012 Team Challenge

by | Nov 27, 2011 | Conference information

At a conference about software development, wouldn’t it be useful to have some people there actually develop software? We want to invite you to bring your whole team, and show off how agile you are. Set up your team information radiators, pair programming stations and servers, and spend part of the conference actually developing your product! With any luck, some of the excellent agilists at the conference will come and pair with you.

The only rules are that you must be agile, and you must deploy into production during the conference. If you deploy several times a day and the product is generally available for conference delegates to use and try the new features, all the better. 🙂

See this as a challenge for your team. If you’re going to be able to show your process off to a whole conference of agilists, wouldn’t you like to have the best possible process? Wouldn’t you like all your team members to work effectively with the latest tools and techniques? Wouldn’t the challenge of having to be ready to show off what you can do at XP2012 be a great way to motivate your team to improve over the next 6 months?

This is the challenge that the team behind http://blocket.se (one of Sweden’s biggest ecommerce sites), and a team from SAAB Gripen, (software for jet fighters), have already accepted. Will you join them, and take up the XP2012 team challenge?

Hi – I´m Emily!

I am an independent consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society.  As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at the technical practices needed to be agile, including Test-Driven Development, Refactoring and Incremental Design. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK. I’ve written two books: “Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman method” and  “The Coding Dojo Handbook”. I teach for both O’Reilly and  Pluralsight. I’m married to Geoff Bache, creator of TextTest. I am also on Mastodon as emilybache@sw-development-is.social.

If you’d like to know a bit more about me, my work, and the talks and workshops I offer, please visit my main website: EmilyBache.com. There, you’ll find information about my background, upcoming events, and the services I provide as a technical coach and consultant. It’s a good place to start if you’re curious about how I can support your team in improving coding skills and agile practices.

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