Kent Beck
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where they keep going back
- GOTO Copenhagen2 editions2024–2025
- RailsConf2 editions2015–2020
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on a stage with
- Beth Andres-Beckonce
- Martin Fowleronce
who talks about the same things
- Michael Feathers23 talks
- Sander Hoogendoorn35 talks
- Daniel Terhorst-North42 talks
- Dave Thomas33 talks
- Martin Fowler19 talks
- Sarah Mei24 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Features Versus Futures | Enterprise AI Summit Spring 2026 | 2026-04-09 |
Argues that every new feature burns optionality (called "futures") so teams must deliberately alternate shipping with refactoring, tests, and design to restore… | ||
| Tech Truth: Agile Evolution & the Future of SW Engineering | GOTO Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-29 |
Two pioneers compare how the Genie (LLMs) actually changes daily work: one uses it as an exploratory tutor to implement a BitBlit reference plus a tiny JS… | ||
| The Forest & The Desert Are Parallel Universes | GOTO Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-29 |
Argues software teams live in two parallel universes: the forest (assumes abundance, purpose, change, collaboration) and the desert (assumes scarcity… | ||
| The Forest & The Desert Are Parallel Universes | Craft Conference 2025 | 2025-05-29 |
Argues software work lives in two parallel universes: Forest optimizes shared purpose, learning and rare big wins; Desert optimizes predictability, control and… | ||
| ESSENTIALS - Canon Test-Driven Development | Craft Conference 2025 | 2025-05-29 |
Argues for a stripped-down, precise TDD workflow: list the concrete scenarios then tests, write one failing test for a behavior (stack example: one test up… | ||
| We're Good At Writing Software [Keynote] | Øredev 2024 | 2024-11-06 |
Asserts that known practices from the last 25 years make steady, low‑bug delivery possible and then names the concrete plumbing: automated tests that describe… | ||
| Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design | GOTO Chicago 2024 | 2024-10-21 |
Argues that when code is messy and a feature is needed the right move is usually tidy first but not too much, because structure changes buy optionality yet… | ||
| Keynote: Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design | NDC Porto 2024 | 2024-10-14 |
Argues that software design is primarily about human relationships and economics, not aesthetics, backing this with original definitions from Structured… | ||
| Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design | GOTO Copenhagen 2024 | 2024-09-30 |
Argues that small, regular refactoring decisions—the Tidy First moment—are empirical investments that prevent rare, catastrophic change costs by reducing… | ||
| What I Learned About Coaching in the Back of an Ambulance | Elevate 2023 | 2023-11-07 |
A medical emergency that causes temporary loss of speech forces a rethink: coaching improves by ditching a bag of techniques and instead preparing, investing… | ||
| Keynote – Kent Beck | RubyConf 2020 | 2020-11-17 |
Argues for treating software choices as reversible vs irreversible: keep structural changes small and reversible so behavior changes (which have real-world… | ||
| Tidy First? | RailsConf 2020 CE | 2020-05-04 |
Thesis: software design is an exercise in human relationships, primarily between waiters vs changers and among changers themselves. Practical claim: sequencing… | ||
| Continued Learning: The Beauty of Maintenance - | DDD Europe 2020 | 2020-02-06 |
Defines coupling precisely: A and B are coupled if changing A forces a change to B and shows a concrete fix when a parameter name change ripples through seven… | ||
| Closing Keynote | RailsConf 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
A clear set of practices for feeling “at ease” at work: run quick Lean Startup experiments to prove a feature matters, put testing before shipping (TDD or… | ||
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