Developer Jam Stage

Producer: Jeff Nielsen
Assistant Producer: Kirk Knoernschild

Agile software development works better when you have skilled developers on the team. There is no substitute for a group of programmers that can efficiently produce clean code and tests, keep the system integrated all the time, and evolve an architecture incrementally. In the words of the manifesto, "continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility."

The Developer Jam stage is about this technical excellence. The audience is in-the-trenches software developers, and the focus is on improving the day-to-day skills that programmers need to succeed with agile.

There are three main components of the stage:

• A series of ongoing clinics. Clinics provide training in specific skills, with hands-on exercises guided by experienced facilitators. Please bring your laptop with an appropriate IDE installed, and come prepared to write code using the language/platform indicated (e.g., for the Java TDD clinics, you should either be comfortable in Java or plan to pair with someone who is). The "TDD" clinic runs all week, the "Clean Code" clinic runs Tuesday & Wednesday, and “Automated Functional Testing” and “Continuous Integration” clinics are on Thursday & Friday.
• A selection of tutorials, demos, and experience reports. These lecture-style sessions address topics relevant to programmers on agile teams.
• "Programming with the Stars". At 12:45 each day, select conference attendees will be paired with legendary agile programmers to perform live on stage before a panel of famous (and outspoken) judges. Watch the contestants execute difficult refactorings, compete in ping-pong pairing, and test-drive something from nothing. The audience vote counts too, so come and cheer them on.

Timeslot	Session	Speaker 1	Speaker 2	Room
Tuesday
10:45-12:15	TDD Clinic: BDD & Rails	Gregg Pollack		Osgoode West
10:45-12:15	Clean Code Clinic: TDD Ping Pong Match!	Andy Maleh	Dave Hoover	Osgoode Foyer
10:45-12:15	Continuous Testing: TDD Turned Up To 12	Ben Rady		Sheraton Hall C
13:00-14:00	Programming with the Stars			Osgoode East
14:00-17:30	TDD Clinic: Ron & Chet	Chet Hendrickson	Ron Jeffries	Osgoode West
14:00-15:30	Clean Code Clinic: Ugly Tic Tac Toe	Patrick Wilson-Welsh	J.B.Rainsberger	Osgoode Foyer
14:00-15:30	Advanced Test Patterns in C++	Bill Hanlon		Sheraton Hall C
16:00-17:30	Clean Code Clinic: Ugly Tic Tac Toe - REPEAT	Patrick Wilson-Welsh	Amir Kolsky	Osgoode Foyer
16:00-17:30	Code Metrics & Analysis for Agile Projects	Neal Ford	Ram Singaram	Sheraton Hall C
Wednesday
08:30-12:00	TDD Clinic: incremental design with Mock Objects	Steve Freeman		Osgoode West
08:30-12:00	Clean Code Clinic: Dealing with CRRAP - Microtesting Legacy Code	Michael Hill		Osgoode Foyer
08:30-10:00	Architecture in an Agile Organization	Chris Sterling	Michael Phoenix	Sheraton Hall C
10:30-12:00	Agile Developer Practices for Dynamic Languages	Paul King		Sheraton Hall C
13:00-14:00	Programming with the Stars			Osgoode East
14:00-17:30	Refactoring Strategies & Tactics	Joshua Kerievsky		Osgoode East
14:00-17:30	TDD Clinic: C++	James Grenning		Osgoode West
14:00-17:30	Clean Code Clinic: Refactoring Fest	Naresh Jain		Osgoode Foyer
14:00-15:30	Clean Systems: Clean Code at the Architecture Level	Dean Wampler		Sheraton Hall C
16:00-17:30	Exploratory Test Driven Development: Red,Yellow, Green, Refactor	Jonathan de Halleux	Nikolai Tillmann	Sheraton Hall C
Thursday
08:30-12:00	Coding Contest	Christoph Steindl	Christian Federspiel	Osgoode East
08:30-12:00	TDD Clinic: .Net and C#	David Starr		Osgoode West
08:30-12:00	Automated Testing Clinic: Testing with a Purpose	Kay Johansen	Christian Hargraves	Osgoode Foyer
08:30-12:00	Continuous Integration Clinic	Maciej Zawadzki		Peel
08:30-10:00	Don't give up on mocking!	Szczepan Faber		Sheraton Hall C
10:30-12:00	A Hundred Days of Continuous Integration	Ade Miller		Sheraton Hall C
	Team pace - Keeping build times down	Graham Brooks
	Effective and pragmatic Test Driven Development	Andrew Rendell
13:00-14:00	Programming with the Stars			Osgoode East
14:00-17:30	TDD Clinic: C and Legacy Code	Bas Vodde	Michael Feathers	Osgoode West
14:00-17:30	Automated Testing Clinic: FitNesse.NET	Mike Stockdale		Osgoode Foyer
14:00-17:30	Continuous Integration Clinic	Owen Rogers		Peel
14:00-17:30	Advanced TDD Randori and Fishbowl	Dave Nicolette	Dave Nicolette	Sheraton Hall C
Friday
08:30-10:00	TDD Clinic: NUnit	James Newkirk		Osgoode West
08:30-10:00	Acceptance Testing Clinic: FitNesse	Micah Martin		Osgoode Foyer
08:30-10:00	TDD Tutorial: BDD & Rails	Gregg Pollack		Sheraton C
13:00-14:30	Programming with the Stars			Grand Ballroom

Review Team

• Gil Broza - Industrial Logic, Canada
• Kent Beck - Three Rivers Institute, USA
• David DeWolf - Three Pillar Software, USA
• Michael Feathers - Object Mentor, USA
• Andy Glover - Stelligent, USA
• Chet Hendrickson - Hendrickson XP, USA
• Ron Jeffries - XProgramming.com, USA
• Joshua Kerievsky - Industrial Logic, USA
• Bob Martin - Object Mentor, USA
• J.B. Rainsberger - Independent, Canada