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Title:

Code Sprinting for Effective, Collaborative Development

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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:
  1. What are code sprints? What problems do they solve? How are they used in real life?
  2. What are good ways to get and keep people involved in your project's sprint?
  3. How should organizers prepare for an effective sprint?
  4. How do organizers help people work well together at the sprint?
  5. How can you best leverage the different skills and levels of participants?
  6. How do sprint participants decide on tasks to do, and perform the work?
  7. How do you capture and integrate completed work?
  8. How do you deal with incomplete work?
  9. How do you produce high-quality, maintainable code within a sprint environment?
  10. 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
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Audrey Eschright
on 17/8/09
This panel includes Reid Beels and Igal Koshevoy, who with myself have worked on Calagator (an open-source calendar aggregator), OpenConferenceWare (the conference management software used for Open Source Bridge), and AutomateIt (a configuration management tool). Our code sprints have been effective in getting new people involved in these projects, and sharing skills, as well as completing needed features.
Leah Culver
on 4/9/09
This sounds like a great idea and I hope it gets more people interested in rapid development. I've only done code sprints for bug fixing, so I'm curious about sprints for new development.
Estelle Weyl
on 4/9/09
We do code sprints for both bug fixing and for software development. They're an important part of the Agile development working environment. I look forward to hearing how other places are implementing sprints in an effective manner.
M4R Converter
on 18/11/09
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