BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Upcoming: Events at 01Zero-One PRODID:-//Upcoming.org/Upcoming ICS//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081009T100000 DTEND:20081009T170000 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20081011T000000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training Course - Technical Aspects of Agile DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945580/ ] Technical Aspects of Agile – Two-day course This course is aimed at developers and team leaders who are already familiar with Agile approaches. It deals with three important technical aspects of Agile software development. Pair Programming. To many people\, especially in senior management\, pair programming seems completely counter-intuitive. Surely\, by getting two people to do the job of one person you're just halving your productivity? A substantial body of research shows quite the opposite - that pair programming doesn't reduce productivity\, but maintains productivity whilst substantially reducing the number of serious defects that are later found in the code. This course covers the very good reasons for introducing pair programming and how to deal with some of the potential objections. It also deals with how to start pair programming - what are the do's and don'ts and provides course participants with some hands-on experience of programming with other people. Test Driven Development. The practice of writing a failing automatic test for each piece of software functionality that is added to a system\, together with a script that can run all of these tests has many beneficial effects on the process of software development. This course gives participants experience of writing tests and then coding against them using the well-known testing framework JUnit. Re-factoring. As software development progresses on a project\, code gets messy and changes in one place cause unexpected problems in others. Re-factoring accepts the reality that code gets messy over time and builds on the advantages of TDD (test-driven development) to allow principled clean up of code. Course participants will be given a chance to clean up the kind of horridly entangled bits of code they might experience and be shown the possible benefits of re-factoring for the ongoing support of the codebase. Attending this course will allow you to: get hands-on experience of three important technical aspects of Agile – Pair Programming\, Test Driven Development and Refactoring. Suitable for: Software developers and leaders of software development teams. Working knowledge of the java programming language required. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945580/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945580/ DTSTAMP:20080730T041644 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T041644 CATEGORIES:Commercial ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081027 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081028 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:UNREAL Modding Workshop DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181583/ ] Following on from last years successful Modding Workshop\, this will again take place at 01-zeroone in Soho\, this time giving people the opportunity to pick up and use Unreal Engine 3. The content is applicable to a wide audience\, ranging from school teachers and university lecturers to students and hobbyists who want to pick up basic game development skills\, as well as study and pass them on to others. The content is applicable to a wide audience\, ranging from school teachers and university lecturers to students and hobbyists who want to pick up basic game development skills\, as well as study and pass them on to others. Participants will learn the skills needed to produce a complete level in one day\, by each producing a small environment from scratch using the Unreal Editor. These skills will include level geometry\, mesh decorations\, texturing\, lighting techniques\, and using actors to manipulate game AI. The days programme will alternate between short lectures demonstrating technique\, and development time coupled with one-on-one tuition and discussion. The Modding Workshop is part of Skillsweek (www.skillsweek.com). Skillsweek is part of the London Games Fringe\, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008\, organised by artists\, academics\, gamers\, game developers\, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181583/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181583/ DTSTAMP:20081006T060009 LAST-UPDATED:20081006T060009 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=rjbirkin:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/276733/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081030 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081031 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Coding Dojo DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181593/ ] The Skills Week Coding Dojo\, taught by Jez Nicholson from NCsoft\, will give participants an introduction to the basics of Agile Development and Adobe Flash. While web games are often overlooked by the mainstream games industry\, the number of people playing them is skyrocketing\, and the tools for creating them are becoming increasingly powerful. The Coding Dojo is a workshop where everyone joins in as part of the team. Participants will learn and discuss Agile Development by collaboratively building a game in Flash. A single project is displayed for the whole group to discuss\, while students continuously pair up to work 15 minute shifts on the code. This is a beginner level workshop\, and while any Flash Actionscript 3.0 knowledge is welcome\, students do not require it to attend. Come to the Coding Dojo and you're sure to pick up the basics. This workshop costs £5\, and places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available now from http://codingdojo.eventbrite.com The Coding Dojo is part of Skillsweek (www.skillsweek.com). Skillsweek is part of the London Games Fringe\, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008\, organised by artists\, academics\, gamers\, game developers\, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181593/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181593/ DTSTAMP:20081006T060417 LAST-UPDATED:20081006T060417 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=rjbirkin:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/276733/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081030 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081031 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Game Design Workshop DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181584/ ] Computers are inherently full of distractions\, and this remains true when designing games digitally. The opportunity to create graphics\, story\, effects\, scripted events and so forth is always there\, distracting creators from the rules of the game. However\, the creation and modding of pen and paper board games has been found to be a very effective focusing tool\, forcing you to get right down to the rules and gameplay of a project. Game design consultant James Wallis will lead you through this one day workshop\, going from basic design principles all the way to a playable prototype in one day. The Skills Week Game Design Workshop will take place on Thursday the 30th of October\, at 01zero-one college in Soho. This workshop costs £5\, and places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available now from http://gamedesignworkshop.eventbrite.com The Game Design Workshop is part of Skillsweek (www.skillsweek.com). Skillsweek is part of the London Games Fringe\, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008\, organised by artists\, academics\, gamers\, game developers\, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181584/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181584/ DTSTAMP:20081006T060214 LAST-UPDATED:20081006T060214 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=rjbirkin:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/276733/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20081105T100000 DTEND:20081105T170000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training - Agile for Programme and Project Managers DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945582/ ] Agile for Programme and Project Managers - 1 day course Agile principles are relatively straight-forward and easy to understand\, but introducing any new methods into a complex work and business environment is always a difficult and delicate task. This second level course uses a combination of case studies and activities to give senior management\, programme and project managers the skills that they need to introduce Agile into their own working environments. Issues dealt with in this course include: · Helping senior management understand Agile · Showing the benefits of Agile to your customers · Introducing Agile methods into to your development team · Managing Iterative Development · Understanding how Agile changes project risks · Fitting Agile methods inside conventional project management methods such as PRINCE2 Attending this course will allow you to: get the best out of Agile methods in your own working environment and convince those that you work with of the benefits of Agile. Suitable for: senior managers\, project and programme managers\, client relationship managers\, business development and sales people. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945582/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945582/ DTSTAMP:20080730T042636 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T042636 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: GEO:51.5231;-0.135086 URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090119T100000 DTEND:20090119T170000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training - Introduction to Agile Methods DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945586/ ] Introduction to Agile Methods – One Day Course Are you involved in the specification\, purchase\, project management or delivery of an IT or web-based project? If so\, you need to know about Agile methods. Agile methods\, are a group of new techniques which make it easier to deliver IT and web-based projects in environments of uncertainty and constant change. Did you ever try to plan a project but things didn't go quite as you expected? Agile methods are designed to deal with that kind of experience. They emphasise the delivery of projects in short iterations: the end of each iteration\, priorities can be re-ordered or new ones can be added making sure that you are always delivering to the client the things that they value most. This introductory course will give you an immediate feel for the difference that working using Agile techniques can have for the IT projects that you work on. Attending this course will allow you to: * Provide the most value in the work that you do for you client. * Plan your work in short iterations. * Deal with new and unexpected information and changes as a project progresses. * Improve your estimates of how long work will take. * Deliver what you say you'll deliver\, when you say you'll deliver it. Suitable for people working as either a producer or project manger or software developer in any new media or software development environment. Also suitable for people involved in the specification and procurement of software. No programming skills required. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945586/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945586/ DTSTAMP:20080730T043745 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T043745 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: GEO:51.5231;-0.135086 URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090202T100000 DTEND:20090202T170000 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20090204T000000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training Course - Technical Aspects of Agile DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945589/ ] Technical Aspects of Agile – Two-day course This course is aimed at developers and team leaders who are already familiar with Agile approaches. It deals with three important technical aspects of Agile software development. Pair Programming. To many people\, especially in senior management\, pair programming seems completely counter-intuitive. Surely\, by getting two people to do the job of one person you're just halving your productivity? A substantial body of research shows quite the opposite - that pair programming doesn't reduce productivity\, but maintains productivity whilst substantially reducing the number of serious defects that are later found in the code. This course covers the very good reasons for introducing pair programming and how to deal with some of the potential objections. It also deals with how to start pair programming - what are the do's and don'ts and provides course participants with some hands-on experience of programming with other people. Test Driven Development. The practice of writing a failing automatic test for each piece of software functionality that is added to a system\, together with a script that can run all of these tests has many beneficial effects on the process of software development. This course gives participants experience of writing tests and then coding against them using the well-known testing framework JUnit. Re-factoring. As software development progresses on a project\, code gets messy and changes in one place cause unexpected problems in others. Re-factoring accepts the reality that code gets messy over time and builds on the advantages of TDD (test-driven development) to allow principled clean up of code. Course participants will be given a chance to clean up the kind of horridly entangled bits of code they might experience and be shown the possible benefits of re-factoring for the ongoing support of the codebase. Attending this course will allow you to: get hands-on experience of three important technical aspects of Agile – Pair Programming\, Test Driven Development and Refactoring. Suitable for: Software developers and leaders of software development teams. Working knowledge of the java programming language required. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945589/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945589/ DTSTAMP:20080730T044503 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T044503 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090303T100000 DTEND:20090303T170000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training - Agile for Programme and Project Managers DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945594/ ] Agile for Programme and Project Managers - 1 day course Agile principles are relatively straight-forward and easy to understand\, but introducing any new methods into a complex work and business environment is always a difficult and delicate task. This second level course uses a combination of case studies and activities to give senior management\, programme and project managers the skills that they need to introduce Agile into their own working environments. Issues dealt with in this course include: · Helping senior management understand Agile · Showing the benefits of Agile to your customers · Introducing Agile methods into to your development team · Managing Iterative Development · Understanding how Agile changes project risks · Fitting Agile methods inside conventional project management methods such as PRINCE2 Attending this course will allow you to: get the best out of Agile methods in your own working environment and convince those that you work with of the benefits of Agile. Suitable for: senior managers\, project and programme managers\, client relationship managers\, business development and sales people. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945594/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945594/ DTSTAMP:20080730T044922 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T044922 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: GEO:51.5231;-0.135086 URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090529T100000 DTEND:20090529T170000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training - Introduction to Agile Methods DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945596/ ] Introduction to Agile Methods – One Day Course Are you involved in the specification\, purchase\, project management or delivery of an IT or web-based project? If so\, you need to know about Agile methods. Agile methods\, are a group of new techniques which make it easier to deliver IT and web-based projects in environments of uncertainty and constant change. Did you ever try to plan a project but things didn't go quite as you expected? Agile methods are designed to deal with that kind of experience. They emphasise the delivery of projects in short iterations: the end of each iteration\, priorities can be re-ordered or new ones can be added making sure that you are always delivering to the client the things that they value most. This introductory course will give you an immediate feel for the difference that working using Agile techniques can have for the IT projects that you work on. Attending this course will allow you to: * Provide the most value in the work that you do for you client. * Plan your work in short iterations. * Deal with new and unexpected information and changes as a project progresses. * Improve your estimates of how long work will take. * Deliver what you say you'll deliver\, when you say you'll deliver it. Suitable for people working as either a producer or project manger or software developer in any new media or software development environment. Also suitable for people involved in the specification and procurement of software. No programming skills required. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945596/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945596/ DTSTAMP:20080730T045237 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T045237 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090623T100000 DTEND:20090623T170000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training - Agile for Programme and Project Managers DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945598/ ] Agile for Programme and Project Managers - 1 day course Agile principles are relatively straight-forward and easy to understand\, but introducing any new methods into a complex work and business environment is always a difficult and delicate task. This second level course uses a combination of case studies and activities to give senior management\, programme and project managers the skills that they need to introduce Agile into their own working environments. Issues dealt with in this course include: · Helping senior management understand Agile · Showing the benefits of Agile to your customers · Introducing Agile methods into to your development team · Managing Iterative Development · Understanding how Agile changes project risks · Fitting Agile methods inside conventional project management methods such as PRINCE2 Attending this course will allow you to: get the best out of Agile methods in your own working environment and convince those that you work with of the benefits of Agile. Suitable for: senior managers\, project and programme managers\, client relationship managers\, business development and sales people. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945598/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945598/ DTSTAMP:20080730T045726 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T045726 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: GEO:51.5231;-0.135086 URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20090629T100000 DTEND:20090629T170000 RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1;UNTIL=20090701T000000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT SUMMARY:Training Course - Technical Aspects of Agile DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945599/ ] Technical Aspects of Agile – Two-day course This course is aimed at developers and team leaders who are already familiar with Agile approaches. It deals with three important technical aspects of Agile software development. Pair Programming. To many people\, especially in senior management\, pair programming seems completely counter-intuitive. Surely\, by getting two people to do the job of one person you're just halving your productivity? A substantial body of research shows quite the opposite - that pair programming doesn't reduce productivity\, but maintains productivity whilst substantially reducing the number of serious defects that are later found in the code. This course covers the very good reasons for introducing pair programming and how to deal with some of the potential objections. It also deals with how to start pair programming - what are the do's and don'ts and provides course participants with some hands-on experience of programming with other people. Test Driven Development. The practice of writing a failing automatic test for each piece of software functionality that is added to a system\, together with a script that can run all of these tests has many beneficial effects on the process of software development. This course gives participants experience of writing tests and then coding against them using the well-known testing framework JUnit. Re-factoring. As software development progresses on a project\, code gets messy and changes in one place cause unexpected problems in others. Re-factoring accepts the reality that code gets messy over time and builds on the advantages of TDD (test-driven development) to allow principled clean up of code. Course participants will be given a chance to clean up the kind of horridly entangled bits of code they might experience and be shown the possible benefits of re-factoring for the ongoing support of the codebase. Attending this course will allow you to: get hands-on experience of three important technical aspects of Agile – Pair Programming\, Test Driven Development and Refactoring. Suitable for: Software developers and leaders of software development teams. Working knowledge of the java programming language required. Contact: Mark Stringer Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk Tel: 01273 726 030 Mobile: 07736 807 604 URL;VALUE=URI:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945599/ UID:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945599/ DTSTAMP:20080730T050040 LAST-UPDATED:20080730T050040 CATEGORIES:Education ORGANIZER;CN=gingermumbly1969:X-ADDR:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/152827/ LOCATION;VENUE-UID="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/":01Zero-One @ Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS\, London\, England UK END:VEVENT BEGIN:VVENUE X-VVENUE-INFO:http://evdb.com/docs/ical-venue/draft-norris-ical-venue.html NAME:01Zero-One ADDRESS:Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street)\, Soho\, W1F 0HS CITY:London REGION;X-ABBREV=london:England COUNTRY;X-ABBREV=uk:United Kingdom POSTALCODE: GEO:51.5231;-0.135086 URL;X-LABEL=Venue Info:http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm END:VVENUE END:VCALENDAR