Erich Gamma, IBM

Erich Gamma is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational Software's Zurich lab. He is one of the leaders of the Jazz project. He was the original lead of the Eclipse Java development environment and is on the Project Management Committee for the Eclipse project.

Erich is also a member of the Gang of Four, which is known for its classical book, Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

Erich has collaborated with Kent Beck on developing JUnit, the de facto standard testing tool for Java software, and on writing the book Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-ins.

Presentation: "Developing Software like a band plays Jazz - From Eclipse to Jazz"

Track: The Programming Experience

Time: Monday 16:00 - 17:00

Location: Conference Hall 3

Abstract:

In the Eclipse project we were able to ship releases on time year after year.

Like many other effective teams we have adapted and evolved our practices and those we learned from the agile community along the way. At the same time we have found that there are still many pain points when it comes to software development in an agile team. Being tool smiths ourselves, we have naturally been asking what if we had an integrated tool set to address these pain points.

In this talk I'll reflect on the Eclipse way of software development and present the initial results of our "what if" exploration.

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