Patrick Leong
Lead Consultant
Excella
location_on United States
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Patrick Leong
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I'm a lead consultant, and .NET lead at Excella in Arlington, Virginia. I've worked for both non-profits, government, and commercial entities in Washington DC for the past decade. I am a huge advocate of Agile Software Development, extreme programming, and lean software development. I'm also an organizer of Tech Talk DC, a Software Development Meetup that serves as a voice and gathering place for people in the IT industry to talk about the culture around software development, as well as the technical practices, tools, and techniques that we use to solve the world's problems!
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When the going get's tough, the tests get going!
45 Mins
Experience Report
Intermediate
Whether it be in non-profits, the government space, or even in commercial software development, we are often at the beck and call of powers outside of our control: a new election result, a tax-law coming into place, a competitor trying to get to market first. This causes us to have to abandon the best practices that we know we have to do in favor of meeting our client's expectations. "You don't need to write so many tests, just write non-buggy code! Why are you pair programming? More developers working on a single story is inefficient! We don't have time to refactor code, just make it work!" This is a story that we all know too well. In this talk, I'll speak about my experiences with two different entities under entirely different expectations. One is a non-profit that needed to update its ageing mainframe system, and the other a government agency that is tasked with a seemingly impossible goal that happens to coincide with an election cycle. In each scenario, we see the effect that this has on the quality of software. We'll also look into how the environment, people, and timelines impacted the approach of each team.
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