Seminars Islington (22)

Robert D. Schneider, senior consultant and trainer. He has provided distributed computing, database optimization, and other technical expertise to a wide variety of enterprises in the financial, technology, and government sectors, and author of six books and numerous articles on advanced technical topics such as Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), open source, and relational...

James Shore is a prominent figure in the Agile software development community. He has been coaching teams in Agile development since 1999, James consults with development teams worldwide to help them meet commitments, improve product quality and increase productivity. He is co-author of The Art Of Agile Development. Diana Larsen consults with leaders and teams to create work processes where...

Linda Rising is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, agile development, and the change process, she is the author of numerous articles and four books—Design Patterns in Communications, The Pattern Almanac 2000, A Patterns Handbook, and Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, written with Mary Lynn Manns. Linda will be in London, for an...

With almost 40 years of experience, Alan Shalloway is an industry thought leader. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Design Patterns, and Object-Orientation. He will be at SkillsMatter holding an intense 2 day course on Lean-Agile Enterprise Release Planning. This two day Lean-Agile Enterprise Release Planning...

Steve Freeman, pioneer of Agile software development in the UK and presenter and organizer at various international industry conferences and Nat Pryce, author of "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" and developer of the jMock mock-object library, will be at Skills Matter holding an in-depth and informative 2 day course on the practices of Test Driven Development. This 2 day...

Rachel is a well-known presenter at and organizer of industry conferences,long serving director of non-profit Agile Alliance as well as providing consultancy and coaches teams in agile software development. Antony Marcano has 13 years of industry experience, originally specialising in software testing, the last 8 of which as a practitioner on Agile projects. Now, more often as a coach and...

Andy Palmer, software craftsman, coach, consultant and developer has worked in technology for 10 years on high-availability systems for the mobile telecommunications industry and as a coach with a prestigious Agile consultancy. Antony Marcano has 13 years of industry experience, originally specialising in software testing, the last 8 of which as a practitioner on Agile projects. Now, more often...

Martine Devos is a persuasive and highly passionate communicator, public speaker and published author focused on Agile methods. Leveraging years of research and experience, Martine trains and coaches teams in Agile principles and practices, including Agile Project Management, Scrum, Kanban and Lean Software Engineering. Kanban is an emerging process framework for software development with a...

Mark Murphy, founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development will be holding a 3-day Android training course for Busy Coders, you'll get a firm foundation for your Android application development efforts. Join Mark Murphy and learn the basics of getting Android applications and user interfaces up and running, including such tricky bits as dealing with...

World leaders Tom and Mary Poppendieck will be arriving at Skillsmatter to give this exciting talk on Lean Software Development. As global competitiveness comes to the software development industry, the search is on for a better way to create first-class software rapidly, repeatedly, and reliably. Lean initiatives in manufacturing, logistics, and services have led to dramatic improvements in...