Tuesday October 10, 5:30PM
Martin Fowler
"Lightweight Methods and XP"
ThoughtWorks
Just one week before he
spoke at OOPSLA 2000, Martin Fowler
visited Hartford and gave his thoughts on lightweight methodologies, per his keynote at
the XP2000
conference.
Fowler is the Chief Scientist for ThoughtWorks,
an internet systems integration and consulting company. For a decade he was an
independent consultant pioneering the use of objects in developing business information
systems. He’s worked with technologies including Smalltalk, C++, object and
relational databases, and EJB with domains including leasing, payroll, derivatives trading
and healthcare. He is particularly known for his work in patterns, the UML, lightweight
methodologies, and refactoring. Author of
the highly regarded Addison Wesley books "Analysis Patterns",
"Refactoring", and "UML Distilled", and
soon "Planning eXtreme Programming" with Kent
Beck.
What did Martin
talk about?
Much of
what Martin discussed may be found in Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction.
Also visit http://www.martinfowler.com for
much more, plus many interesting references.
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