I'm super excited about attending the Agile Development Practices Conference in Orlando on December 5th & 6th.
In addition to showing a serious commitment to agile practices and software quality on the part of DTS, what I really think is cool about this event is that it will dig into some of the more technical aspects - testing strategies, automated builds, refactoring etc. Since these things are challenging when applied to regular .NET development, I'm especially interested to get some ideas on overcoming some of the extra challenges the ArcGIS stack adds into the mix (i.e. using mocks & fakes for a large interface based API like ArcObjects)
And getting a chance to hear people like Scott Ambler, Roy Osherove, Mike Cohn, Tom and Mary Poppendiek, and Andy Hunt talk about agile development should be great. I just picked up a new laptop today, so I expect to be taking copious notes and likely more than a few blog postings while at the conference. Hope to see some other GIS people out there as well!
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