Topic: 3 Tips to Improve Your Development Process

It does not matter if you are doing Agile or if you are working in an environment like RUP or CMMI, there are several things you can do to improve your development process. This highly interactive session will show you three specific tips: improve your estimation, use a daily standup to keep a close focus on your progress, and work in retrospectives to empower your team's ability to drastically improve your entire software development process, regardless of what that process is, even if it's no process! You will leave this session with a handle on ways to smooth out your project's environment.

Jim Holmes is a Husband. Geek. Veteran. Several decades experience in various corners of the IT industry. Co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools." Coffee Roaster. MVP for C#. Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. Liked 5th grade so much he did it twice. One-time setter, middle blocker, and weakside hitter. Blogger (http://FrazzledDad.com). Program Manager for Telligent Systems, makers of Community Server and other neat products. Big fan of naps.

Books mentioned by Jim in the presentation:
- Shore & Warden’s The Art of Agile Development
- Steve McConnell’s Software Estimation and the seminal Code Complete
- Tom and Mary Poppendieck’s Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development

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3 Tips to Improve Your Development Process