I am tenatively scheduled to speak in San Diego, CA at the “San Diego .NET Developers Group” (http://sddotnetdg.org/). We haven’t arranged a date yet, but I think it will be around late spring / early summer.

This time I will again be presenting a talk on object oriented design and agile development, probably a slight variation on the general topics from my other talks.

I’ll provide more details as they become available.

You often hear it stated by very bright people that they thought they understood object oriented design until they began practicing Test Driven Development (TDD). I definitely include myself in that group (the misunderstanding OOD part anyway!).

Here is a list of the very best books I have found that helps bridge the divide between OOD and Agile for those of you who are currently making that transition. They are highly recommended.

Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
by Robert C. Martin

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by Martin Fowler

Working Effectively with Legacy Code
by Michael Feathers

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking in Orange County, CA on May 9th from 6pm onward.

I’ll will be presenting a talk on object oriented design and agile development at a joint meeting of the “Orange Country C# Developers Group” (http://sddotnetdg.org/) and the “Orange County VB.NET User Group” (http://www.ocvbug.org/).

I encourage anyone in the Anaheim / L.A. area interested in the interplay between object oriented design and agile software development to attend.

[NOTE: This recent post refers to a much older (March 3, 2006) event.]

I want thank Carlton Nettleton and June Clarke for inviting me to present my “Five Fundamental Object Oriented Design Principles for Agile Development” talk at XPSD this past March. The audience participation was great and I really learned a lot myself!

You can download the slides and code samples here:

http://michaelckennedy.net/Talks/Downloads/XPSD/AgileDesign.zip

[NOTE: This recent post refers to a much older (Jan 21, 2006) event.]

I want to thank everyone who attended my talk at the first Southern California Code Camp. I really enjoyed speaking there and I got the sense that many of you got something from the talk. In case you weren’t there and are interested, here’s the abstract:

Five Fundamental Object Oriented Design Principles for Agile Development

This session will present five object oriented design principles that facilitate agile software development. These general design principles promote the creation of testable, maintainable, and reusable software. The principles include the Open Closed Principle and the Liskov Substitution Principle. The interaction between Agile Development and these principles will be demonstrated using several code samples.

 You can download the slides and code samples here:

http://michaelckennedy.net/Talks/Downloads/SoCalCodeCamp/AgileDesign.zip

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