How did our industry start, what paths did it take to get to where we are, and where is it going. What big problems did programmers encounter in the past? How were they solved? And how do those solutions impact our future? What mistakes have we made as a profession; and how are we going to correct them. In this talk, Uncle Bob describes the history of software, from it’s beginnings in 1948 up through the current day; and then beyond. By looking at our past trajectory, we try to plot out where our profession is headed, and what challenges we’ll face along the way – Paul Stringer’s Mobile Tech

The first step in creating a useful plan is the ability to estimate reliably. In this session, Mike Cohn discusses various approaches to estimating including unit-less points and ideal time that dramatically improve a project’s chances of on-time completion.

As programmers we crank out code day in and day out. In the pressure to deliver faster and to keep up with change, it’s easy to forget about code quality. Over time, we may not even realize how much the code has deteriorated except that we feel the pain moving forward, as with each line of code we touch gets harder and slower to change. In this video, we discuss reasons to maintain good quality code and ways in which we, each one of us, can be part of creating quality code.