The March edition of the Make.Better. Symposium was held on Thursday March 29, 2018 at The Hub CoWorking Space. Developers and others who have an interest in the software development industry gathered to exchange knowledge and share battle stories. Once again, we had representation from various software shops based here in Kingston, Jamaica. We had two main presentations and discussion on topics important to the craft.
In addition to our short talks we added 3 lightning talk slots.
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The first Make.Better. Symposium was held on Friday March 24, 2017 at Startup Jamaica. Our enthusiastic participants represented various software shops based here in Kingston, Jamaica. We had two main presentations and discussion on topics important to the craft.
The first presentation was by Solomon Perkins and was an introduction to automating testing using the Robot Framework Egbert Frankberg of KnightFox Apps shared some of the practices that they use to be more productive with Jira for project management.
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It is our hope that through the Make.Better symposiums, participants will be encouraged to improve both their processes and their products. The name is a play on the word “make”, it is a call to become a better “maker” of software but it is also a call to “make” better software.
The name also embraces the concept of continuous improvement as a way of thinking. As a software craftsman, feel free to make Make.
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