Heynemann – Just another dev

The Developer’s Conference

I presented “Testes de Aceitação nas Trincheiras com Pyccuracy” (Acceptance Testing in the Trenches with Pyccuracy) with Guilherme Chapiewski. This session was an experience sharing on the good, the bad, the dos and don’ts of Acceptance Testing. A demo of parallel acceptance testing was also shown.

Fisl 10 – 2009

I presented “Testes de Aceitação em Python com Pyccuracy” with Gabriel Falcão and Guilherme Chapiewski. This session (Acceptance Testing in Python with Pyccuracy in english) was a demo on how to use the Pyccuracy tool and how to improve on readability and maintainability of your acceptance testing code.

Agilidade na Prática 2010

I presented “Lean Software Development: Resultados são consequência” (Lean Software Dev: Results are consequence). This session was an introduction on some lean and agile principles and practices, as well as an eye opener to some teams that keep thinking that they should be focusing on results, when they should be focusing on the customer. The slides for the presentation can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/heynemann/lean-presentation-5572943. There was also an open session on many topics agile-related in the end of the conference.

Maré de Agilidade Salvador 2011

I presented the same session as in Agilidade na Prática 2010 (“Lean Software Development: Resultados são consequência”). The audience response was really good and some people gave me feedback that they are trying LEAN in their companies for the first time after knowing that it is not some new buzzword. It was very rewarding and I look forward to the next year conference.

Conferences Attended (Major)

QCon San Francisco 2009

I attended this conference for tutorials and sessions. It was a really good oportunity to learn more about Continuous Integration, agile techniques and development. Highlights of the conference were Google’s Session on Massive Continuous Integration, Yahoo’s Douglas Crockford session on EcmaScript history and Dan North’s session on how to get a team shaman going, so someone remembers the why’s and not the how’s of the ways things got done in a project.

Yahoo Open Hack Brazil 2010

This was a very different conference. It’s two days non-stop (without sleeping) of keynotes and hacking. In the end of the hacks each team presents (in 2 minutes) what they did. Me, Gabriel Falcão and two more hackers came up with the idea of showing people what’s happening near them (geo-localized). The final product of 24hs of coding was a dashboard where you could add geo-localized widgets and see information near you (events, police, hospitals, maps, flickr, etc).

Pensando LEAN 2010

The Pensando Lean 2010 forum was a great opportunity to attend the Lean Software Development course with Mary and Tom Poppendieck. I learned a lot of LEAN and agile principles from them in the two days of the course.