SXSW 2012 - Code Sprinting for Effective, Collaborative Development

Code Sprinting for Effective, Collaborative Development
Event	Interactive 2010
Format	Panel
Organizer	Audrey Eschright – Elevated Code
Description	Code sprints are short, time-boxed programming sessions emphasizing deliverables, collaboration and flexibility. Learn to effectively use sprints to build new projects or pump fresh life into existing ones. Presented by an experienced panel of open source organizers and coders that have lead and participated in hundreds of sprints.
Questions Answered	What are code sprints? What problems do they solve? How are they used in real life? What are good ways to get and keep people involved in your project's sprint? How should organizers prepare for an effective sprint? How do organizers help people work well together at the sprint? How can you best leverage the different skills and levels of participants? How do sprint participants decide on tasks to do, and perform the work? How do you capture and integrate completed work? How do you deal with incomplete work? How do you produce high-quality, maintainable code within a sprint environment? What technical resources and assets will help you sprint effectively?
Level	Intermediate
Category	Back-End Programming / Databases, Community / Online Community, Design Thinking, Education, Open Source

Code Sprinting for Effective, Collaborative Development