Jeff Hoover
Jun 2003 - Secrets of Software Success, 1 day workshop - Menlo Innovations
Jul 2004 - Extreme Interviewing - Menlo Innovations
Skills/Pillars Emphasized: Collaboration, Supportive Culture
Dec 2004 - Completed a 4-month contract on an Extreme Programming team at Menlo Innovations
Mar 2009 - CodeRetreat - Cleveland - Lean Dog
Skills/Pillars Emphasized: Pair Programming, TDD, Refactoring, Practice,
Supportive Culture, Connect with Experts, Retrospective
Jun 2009 - CodeRetreat - Farmington Hills - Gale/Cengage
Oct 2009 - Joined the Agile Skills Project as a contributor - Created the project's first wiki.
Nov 2009 - Michigan Agile Enthusiasts - Gale/Cengage Agile Transformation Story -
Nov 2009 - 1 Dev Day Detroit -
Skills/Pillars Emphasized: Refactoring, Collaboration
Nov 2009 - Started blog of my Agile experiences - Agile Treetown Adventure
Dec 2009 - CodeRetreat - Cleveland - Lean Dog
Jan 2010 - Code Mash 2010 Precompiler -
Skills/Pillars Emphasized: Pair Programming, TDD/BDD
Jan 2010 - Code Mash 2010 -
Skills/Pillars Emphasized: Leadership, User Stories, Self Improvement
Feb 2010 - Michigan Agile Enthusiasts - Compuware experience with agile -
Mar 2010 - 2010 MI: Agile and Beyond -
Skills/Pillars Emphasized: TDD
Mar/April 2010- Coded Conway's Game of Life using BDD instead of TDD as I had done at CodeRetreats. Blogged about the experience.
Apr 2010 - CodeRetreat - Detroit - ePrize , sponsored by the Detroit Java User Group
May 2010 - Joined volunteer agile team Snap Impact as volunteer tester/dev. (Maven, git, Assembla, scala)
May 2010 - Spent 2-3 days at work using test-first to write "learning tests" in order to validate the API of a poorly-documented third-party SOAP service interface.
May 2010 - Agile Developer Skills course with Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson - Ann Arbor, MI
This step 1 of Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Developer program.
See my quest sub-page for a discussion of the agile developer skills covered by the course.
Also see my blog post about my personal experience at the course.
May 2010 - 30 minute TDD exercise coached over Skype by my friend A.K.
June 2010 - 90 minute TDD practice session over Skype with my friend A.K.
Jan 2011 - Contributed to Scala Koans
Jan 2011 - CodeMash
- Git Immersion PreCompiler session
- Cuke4Duke session
- ...
Jan 2011 - Completed Rails for Zombies
Jan 2011 - Completed Git Immersion
Jan 2011 - CodeRetreat @ SRT Solutions in Ann Arbor
Jan/Feb 2011 - railstutorial.org
March 2011 - Interviewed at a large company as a member of agile development team. Great culture fit, but they wanted more Java stack experience and I'm more .NET
March 2011 - Coding in the Clink III - (my blog post) - Skills/Pillars Emphasized: TDD, Pair Programming, Leadership
June 2011 - Coding in the Clink IV - (my blog post) - Skills/Pillars Emphasized: TDD, Pair Programming, Leadership
September 2011 - Accepted position as Software Craftsman / Coach at Pillar Technology
September 2011 - Helped facilitate A Day in the Life of Agile
September 2011 - Agile Coach Camp - (my blog post)
October 2011 - Taught 1-week TDD/BDD course (NUnit/SpecFlow) at a specialty insurance company.
October 2011 - Helped facilitate A Day in the Life of Agile (x 2)