Geoffrey Dunn
Test Engineer
ResMed
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Geoff has been creating software professionally for 25 years and has experienced being a lead programmer, a lead tester and a project manager. He got the Agile bug nearly 10 years ago and ever since has been helping teams apply new technical practices to their legacy code. He is now a Lead Software Tester at ResMed helping create quality medical devices. He is supported by his Wife and two cats and devotes some of his free time to helping officiate roller derby matches.
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Architecture Kata with Tarot Cards
85 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
Architecture Katas are a collaborative way to practice software design first done by Ted Neward. Teams are asked to come up with a software design for a random problem and consider the specifics of problem to design something that could be quickly released while being scalable and secure.
But I really like running the variation by Martin Salias where the teams are limited to 10 minute sprints. And at the end of each sprint they will face random extra challenges based on Tarot cards he has designed. The tarot cards will include complications for the team to overcome like internationalisation, accessibility, price or testability. As facilitator I will interpret the tarot cards as to how their design is letting down their customers and they will need to react.
Will teams be able to prioritise quickly? Will they work together as a cohesive team? Can they design something of value to customers in only 10 minutes? And how easy will it be for their design to react to new challenges because no one can predict every possible issue that will happen in the real world.
Some images from the last time I ran this as a workshop:
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