Presentations

Index

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Companies for Craftsmen

Software Craftsmanship North America, November 2011

The Use of Burn Charts to Manage Projects

1DevDay Detroit, November 2011

Happy Makers Make Happy Customers

GR DevDay, November 2011

JRuby, Rails, and Torquebox

GR DevDay, November 2011

Building Ruby Applications – A Walkthrough

GR DevDay, November 2011

Web Application Framework Shoot-out

GRWebDev, October 2011

Planning for Scale

Business of Software, October 2011

Managing Balanced Team Projects

Balanced Team Conference, September 2011

JRuby, Rails, and Torquebox

DetroitRuby, August 2011

Growing Your Embedded Application Organically with Ceedling and Friends

AgileConf, August 2011

Lightweight Project Tracking with Burn Charts

SoftwareGR, June 2011

Ruby for Desktop Applications? Yes we can.

Grand Rapids Java User Group, May 2011

Between Freelance and Corporate America: Sustainable Companies for Smart and Creative People

TEDxTraverseCity, May 2011

Extreme Design: The Secrets to Successful Design Pairing

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, April 2011

Way Better Error Handling in C Using CException

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, April 2011

Embedded test-driven development in C with Ruby

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, April 2011

Trash your RFP: how to select the best vendor

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, April 2011

Integrated Design and Development

Agile and Beyond, March 2011

HTML5 Offline

GRWebDev, January 2011

Crafting Your Mobile Strategy

Michigan Emerging, November 2010

30-50% of you are lousy estimators: here’s how to get better

1DevDay Detroit, October 2010

Sustainability = f (Idea, Execution, Culture)

TEDxGrandValley, August 2010

Running a Ruby application with jruby-complete

Grand Rapids Ruby meetup, March 2010

Pew Pew – Writing Games in Ruby

Southern California Linux Expo, February 2010

The Agile Alternative

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, November 2009

Introduction to FLEX

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, November 2009

Delivering Software Certainty

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, November 2008

Agile: It’s More Than Just Makeup

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, November 2008

Agile Project Management. Or, Burning Your Gantt Charts.

Embedded Systems Conference Boston, October 2008

Feature-Driven Design Using TDD and Mocks

Embedded Systems Conference Boston, October 2008

Effective Rails Testing Practices

Windy City Rails, September 2008

Blowing a Wad vs Building a Business

Right Place 4th Friday, April 2008

Convincing the Executive: economic arguments for agile

GLSEC, November 2007

An Automated Mock Object Generator for C++

GLSEC, November 2007

Enhancing Embedded Development with Ruby

RubyConf, November 2007

Improving the Embedded Development Process

Open Source Convention, July 2007

Interaction-Based Testing: Beyond Classical Unit Testing

Dr. Dobb’s Architecture and Design World, July 2007

Fostering Excellence in IT Services through Quality and Innovation

GLSEC, October 2006

Perils and Pitfalls of Agile Adoption

SD Best Practices, September 2006

Agile Intro + Story Driven Development

XP West Michigan, January 2006

System Testing in Ruby with Systir

Ruby Conference, October 2005

Acceptance Test Automation to Support Story Driven Development

IQAA, October 2005

Quick & Practical Ruby

X-Rite, April 2005

Sane Software Development

Smiths Aerospace, March 2005

Agile Project Management in Extreme Programming Projects

Project Management Institute, May 2004

OO Testing: From Academia to the Real World

Uppsala University, May 2002

Better Living Through Extreme Programming

AITP, October 2002