About the speakers

Mike Long

Mike Long is a software architect currently working on improving development practices in large scale software development teams, based in Beijing, China.  His previous experience working with embedded systems development in Norway and England have instilled a great passion for test driven development, code craft, and avoiding oscilloscope debugging as much as humanly possible.

Mike is the creator of the Fake Function Framework, the founder of the Beijing Software Craftsmanship Group, and an organizer for the Beijing Homebrewing Society.

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Blog: http://meekrosoft.wordpress.com/

Twitter: @meekrosoft

Github: https://github.com/meekrosoft/

James Grenning

James Grenning’s trains, coaches and consults worldwide. With more than thirty years of software development experience, both technical and managerial, James brings knowledge, skill, and creativity to software development teams and their management.

As his professional roots are in embedded software, James’ mission is to bring state-of-the-art technical and management practices to embedded development teams.

He is the author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C.

He invented Planning Poker, an estimating technique used around the world, and participated in the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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Blog: http://www.renaissancesoftware.net/blog/

Website: www.renaissancesoftware.net

Twitter: @jwgrenning

Story testing paper: http://bit.ly/story_testing