Robert C. Martin - President of Object Mentor Inc - Founder of Agile Aliance 
Date: May 25, 2005 - 3:00 PM
Track: Agile Business
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Session Abstract: In this session Robert Martin describes all the practices of Agile Development, and how they fit into a development organization. This includes pair programming, test-driven-development, continuous integration, collective ownership, the planning game, whole-team, etc. Robert also discusses the Manifesto of the Agile Alliance, and the values and principles of agile methods like XP, Scrum, FDD, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, etc.

Speaker Bio: Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has been a software professional since 1970 and is founder and president of Object Mentor Inc., in Gurnee, Illinois. Object Mentor, Inc., is an international firm of highly experienced software developers and managers who specialize in helping companies get their projects done. Object Mentor offers process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting, training, and skill development services to major corporations worldwide.

Mr. Martin has authored and edited many books including:

• Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications using the Booch Method

• Patterns Langauages of Program Design 3

• More C++ Gems

• Extreme Programming in Practice

• Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices.

A leader in the industry of software development, Mr. Martin served three years as the editor-in-chief of the C++ Report, and he served as the first chairman of the Agile Alliance.