This tutorial focuses on lessons learned from our experiences in implementing Agile in teams across different time zones in large companies. We will share the pleasure and the pain, ideas that worked as well as ideas that didn’t. We will share what we feel are the critical success factors in making program level implementations successful and sustaining. This is more than an experience report - we share templates, pictures, lessons learned for leveraging technology, managing multiple time zones, recommendations for metrics and reporting, and ideas for future program level success.

Test Driven Development is the core of the technical Agile practices. With TDD, programmers get instant feedback that their code does what they intend. This class shows the motivations and mechanics of TDD, but does not stop there. Attendees get first hand experience at TDD, writing well tested code in the challenging world of C++. Attendees see how TDD helps to prevent many bugs and memory leaks from ever making the bug list. CppUTest, an open source test harness, is used to collect, organize and automate C++ unit tests.