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I'm very excited to announce that I'm helping to organize a conference in Göteborg in March! This is going to be so cool. We've booked the biggest venue in town (Svenska Mässan) and are inviting high profile speakers from around the world. There will be a whole track...
The "Programming with the Stars" final was almost the last event of the whole agile2008 conference, and Michael Feathers and I were up against Lasse Koskela pairing with Noah Jacobson. Our brief from Joshua and Jeff was "you have 8 minutes on stage. Impress us". This...
Today in "Programming with the Stars" our task was to do "Story Test Driven Development" (aka Acceptance Test Driven Development). With just 6 minutes on stage, this was a pretty tall order. Jeff and Joshua had suggested that we use tools like FIT or Fitnesse to...
We were up last this time, rather than first, and I was so impressed with the three pairs who went before us, they all paired really well and seemed to achieve what they set out to do. Joshua (one of the hosts) also decided to interview each pair just before they...
Michael Feathers and I competed in the "Programming with the Stars" competition today, which was fun, if rather nerve racking. Our category was "TDD from scratch" and we chose to perform the FizzBuzz Kata in python. We chose that because we thought it was simple...
I've just got to Toronto in advance of the agile2008 conference which starts on Monday, and I'm looking forward to it with great excitement and some trepidation. Until now it was the session that Geoff and I are running on Thursday that was claiming all my attention...
What do you have to do to get me to come and work for your company? Well, it seems a couple of free lunches and some good geeky conversation works pretty well. Of course, it helps if you're also offering me an exciting mix of software development work, high calibre...
Last night a group of eight python hackers were drawn into a darkened conference room on Odinsgatan "Odin's street" in order to exchange little-known information and to take part in obscure coding rituals. To open proceedings, Andrew Dalke shared deep insights into...
Miranda was born last Thursday, a healthy little girl 53cm long and weighing 3.77kg. Her big sister Karina, (now three and a half) and Geoff and I are all doing well.I hope to be at home with Miranda for about 6 months, so I don't expect to write much here for a while.
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a way of programming where you start be specifying a (failing) test, write code until it passes, then refactor. Repeat. This technique has been hugely valuable and adopted widely since it was introduced to the world by Kent Beck and...
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.
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