April 13th — Agile Velocity and Gradle
Location: Conference Center (building 697 on the Lowry campus) – Room 200C
The campus address is: 9101 East Lowry Blvd. Denver, CO 80230
The address closest to the building is: 1061 Akron Way Denver CO 80230
Here’s some additional directional help:
http://www.cccs.edu/Docs/About/LowryDirectory.pdf
http://www.cccs.edu/Docs/About/DrivingDirectionsToLowry.pdf
5:30-6:00: Food, Soda and Networking
We are grateful to Tek-Systems for their continued sponsorship of the
Food and Soda!
We’ll be raffling off a ticket to this years uberconf(http://uberconf.com/conference/denver/2011/07/home)
Join us for Über Conf 2011 taking place in beautiful Denver, CO July 12 – 15, 2011. Brought to you by the No Fluff Just StuffSoftware Symposium Series, Über Conf will offer 150 technically focused sessions including 25 hands-on workshops centered around Architecture, Cloud, Security, Enterprise Java, Languages on the JVM, Build/Test, Mobility and Agility.
*** BASIC CONCEPTS ***
6:00-7:00: Agile Velocity
The agile development process is all about early and often feedback. One aspect of feedback is how is the team doing… Are we accurate in our estimates? Are we consistent in our velocity? As velocity varies, what is it telling me?
About Ken Sipe
Ken Sipe is the CTO of Gradleware, Inc. (gradleware.com). With the co-founders Hans Dockter and Adam Murdoch, Ken helps companies of all sizes adopt agile practices and automate their enterprise systems enabling faster time to market and higher quality.
Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken’s current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.
Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.
*** MAIN PRESENTATION ***
7:00-8:45: Enter The Gradle
In the Java build space, first there was ANT, which provided a reliable way to build without an IDE. Then there was Maven, which provided standardization in build life cycles and dependency management. Now… Enter the Gradle, which provides convention over configuration approach to the build process and an approach at building that isn’t based XML.
Prerequisite: Some Groovy helpful
About Ken Sipe
Ken Sipe is the CTO of Gradleware, Inc. (gradleware.com). With the co-founders Hans Dockter and Adam Murdoch, Ken helps companies of all sizes adopt agile practices and automate their enterprise systems enabling faster time to market and higher quality.
Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken’s current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.
Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.