Maria Diaconu and Alexandru Bolboacă Software as a craft - an introduction to the Software Craftsmanship movement
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 07:31AM The typical evolution of a programmer is: learn programming by playing with a language then going to college and then getting hired in a company. After a while, the initial drive is lost and programming is not fun anymore, because deadlines make the developers write quick and dirty code so that the task is done in time.
Software Craftsmanship is a movement promoted by highly experienced programmers that is based on a few core principles: developers need to learn how to program better and faster and they can do it in a fun way. We will discuss in our talk the roots of the movement, its core practices and methods, how it evolved and where it’s going. We will give real life example of the effects of the movement’s practices upon projects and people, from our experience and from the experience of our fellow practitioners.
Our purpose is to show a way for passionate developers to become better professionals and to learn techniques like TDD, pair programming, refactoring, clean code in a fun way, by themselves or in a community of professionals. The talk is especially interesting for developers, but anyone who wants to learn more about the craft of programming (e.g. managers, trainers etc.) will discover interesting things.
Maria Diaconu
Maria is founder and coordinator of the Romanian Agile community Agile Works Romania and owner of Mosaic Works, a company offering coaching and training services in software development area. From Software Developer to Agile Practitioner & Coach, Maria is supporting quality software, software craftsmanship and people passionate about their craft. In the last 5 years she is working with teams to achieve high quality software and increase their productivity. She is also an active promoter of the Software Craftsmanship movement in Romania.
Alexandru Bolboacă
Alexandru worked in software development for more than 10 years, both locally and abroad. He is currently a Software development consultant and trainer working in partnership with Mosaic Works, helping customers develop high quality software and working to improve the quality of the software developed in Romania. He studied in the recent years the influence of human factor in software development and continues to work to find ways to improve the software quality. He is an active promoter of the Software Craftsmanship movement in Romania.
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