Software is Grown, Not Assembled [eng]
TBA

Kent Beck
Independent consultant
- Explores how a product evolves as it matures and how to respond effectively to new challenges in its development
- Studies the patterns in software systems and shows how to adapt tools and approaches to the inexorable laws of nature
- Investigates the structure and evolution of programs using the same methods applied in natural sciences to study the world around us
- Shares data and insights: for example, programming language doesn’t affect diff size, but deployment frequency does
- Demonstrates how to teach, scale, and measure the effectiveness of teams and processes in software development