by Emily Bache | Oct 14, 2011 | Review
I’m speaking next week at ScanDev on Tour in Stockholm on the subject of “Software Development Craftsmanship”, and as part of my research I read both “The Clean Coder” by Robert C. Martin and “Apprenticeship Patterns” by Dave...
by Emily Bache | Jun 21, 2011 | Experience Report
This is the second time I’ve attended Nordic Ruby, you can read about what I thought last year here. This year I enjoyed the conference more, for several reasons. There were some small changes in the way it was organized, (on a Friday and Saturday instead of...
by Emily Bache | Dec 9, 2010 | Conference information
I’ve just been appointed to the role of Industry Programme Chair for XP2011, which will be held in Madrid in May. I’ve been to 7 of the previous 11 XP conferences and I am so pleased to be asked to contribute to the success of the conference this year by...
by Emily Bache | Dec 28, 2009 | Coding Skills
I recently read this post in Brian Marick’s blog, and it set me thinking. He’s talking about a test whose intention in some way survived three major GUI revisions. The test code had to be rewritten each time, but the essence of it was retained. He says: I...
by Emily Bache | Dec 10, 2009 | Opinion
Today I listened to a presentation about “Scrum for Managers” from Jens Östergaard. He’s a big, friendly Dane who grew up in Sweden, and now lives in the UK. I first met Jens at XP2003 in Genoa, when he had just run his first successful Scrum...
