I have proposed a 90-minute talk entitled “An Introduction to Agile Through the Theory of Constraints”. Please review it. Thanks.

I would like to invite you to submit a proposal for a workshop, tutorial or talk to XP 2009 or Agile 2009. The deadlines for proposals are in mid-February, so you have a few weeks. Don’t forget to read Kent Beck’s paper about submitting papers to OOPSLA to help you get started.

I need your help.

At the Better Software Agile Development Practices conference in November I will present my tutorial entitled Avoid Integration Defects Without Integration Tests. I will describe and demonstrate the design benefits of reducing your reliance on integration tests (specifically end-to-end tests) to gain confidence in the basic correctness of code. I’d like to take sample integration or end-to-end tests from the audience and turn them into good, focused object tests, but at a busy conference, few audience members prepare such material in advance.

Enter you.

If you have some end-to-end or integration tests that you’d like to turn into good, focused object tests that help improve your design while offering the same or better confidence in the correctness of your code, then please contact me to receive instructions on how to send me your sample. I will, of course, give you whatever credit you want, or promise not to identify you if you’d rather remain anonymous. Whether I use the sample in the tutorial, I will work with you to show you how to improve your design through focused, object tests, rather than relying on integration tests.

Thanks.

To borrow from Garr Reynolds, who has taught me much about presentations:

So if you’d like to know where I plan to appear next, click the link under my photo or subscribe to my appearances calendar:

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Feel free to invite me anywhere with any amount of notice. You never know what we can work out. Be sure to tell me enough about your invitation to pique my interest!

See you on the road, which would be a town near you!

Allow me to invite you to XP 2008 in Limerick, Ireland on June 11, 2008 at 2 PM local time to join me for Test-Driven Enterprise Code, my long-running tutorial aimed at programmers who want to practise test-driven development in the complicated world of platforms, frameworks, libraries, and more. Stay tuned to this channel for presentation slides, and possibly more.