Steve Freeman

There are still a few places left for the London XpDay, an event designed by practitioners for practitioners.

We’re trying the half-Open Space format again, with a day of prepared sessions (some promising experience reports this year) leading to a day of ad-hoc sessions. This means we can have a conference that’s more responsive to the [...]

Prove you’re not superstitious! I’ll be giving my talk on Sustainable TDD at Skills Matter on Friday, 13th November. Sign up here (if you dare).

This talk is about the qualities we look for in test code that keep the development “habitable.” We want to make sure the tests pull their weight by making them [...]

I’m running a track at QCon in San Francisco on Friday 20th November. The topic is Technical Skills for Agile Development, and it’s about some of the technical essentials that Agile teams need to keep moving.

I’ll be presenting a session, based on material from our book, on how to live with your tests over [...]

There’s been some chatter on the interweb recently, from Ron Jeffries and Martin Fowler for example, on the risks of a team adopting
only the ceremonial parts of Agile, without also adopting the “hard” technical practices as well.

Luckily for people with access to London (UK), we have a track at this year’s QCon to address [...]

Just got home after two intense days of XpDay London 2008. There’ll be follow-up materials posted on our new wiki. This year, Keith Braithwaite tried out a largely open format which was really buzzing by the second day.

In the middle of today’s keynote I was suddenly struck by the range of our community. With only [...]

I, too, have become involved in Jason Gorman’s Software Craftsmanship mini-conference. If you’re interested, now is a good time to visit the site and propose a session.

This conference aims to showcase and champion the “hard skills”, and champion the idea of software craftsmanship and the ways in which it can be encouraged and supported in [...]

We’ve opened registration for XpDay London.

As the blurb on the site says, we’re returning to our “by practitioners, for practitioners” roots, so we have a more open structure this year, plus two cracking keynotes. Sign up soon for the early bird discount.

… and yes, the website needs improvement. If you have time to [...]

I’m speaking at JavaZone in Oslo, on September 17th. I was so impressed last year that I managed to get back in. The topic will be Listening to Test Smells, which Nat and I have been raising for a while.

I’ll only be there until mid-afternoon Wednesday, so get in touch early if you want to [...]

We’re very pleased to announce our keynote speakers for this year’s London XpDay.

Chris Ambler, European QA Director for games company Electronic Arts, tests some of the most complex software in the world

Daniel Jones and Marc Baker, Lean Enterprise Academy, are two of the most established Lean consultants in the world. Jones wrote, with James [...]

In preparation for my (first) tutorial at XP2008, I’ll be arriving at Shannon airport at about 7:30, Tuesday night. If anyone wants to share a ride to Limerick, please let me know. Comment on this blog if you don’t have my address.