A Question of Craftsmanship

Although a great deal of the enthusiasm for Agile development initially grew from software developers, much of the current focus in Agile circles has moved to on organisational aspects, product management and soft skills. Craftsmanship has long been a quality and a metaphor applied to software development, but more recently software craftsmanship has emerged as a more explicit movement and branding focused on reclaiming and re-emphasising the importance of the detail, of how to code and how to do it well.

There are many different perspectives on what the craftsmanship metaphor implies and what benefits and liabilities it may have. This session lays out and explores the motivation, implications, pros and cons of a craftsmanship view of software development.

A must-see presentation if you are passionate about software developmentKEVLIN'S BIO

Kevlin Henney is a regular columnist for various industry magazines and a well known and popular speaker on topics such OO Design, Patterns, Agile Development and Software architecture at conferences in Europe and North America.

Kevlin currently works as an independent consultant and trainer based in Bristol. He has developed and delivered training courses, consultancy and software across a number of domains ever since getting involved in professional software development in the late 1980s.

Most of Kevlin's work focuses on software architecture, patterns, development process and programming languages. His work has appeared in several magazines and online publications, including; The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report, C++ Report and CUJ. Along with Frank Buschmann and Doug Schmidt, Kevlin is coauthor of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know project.

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