TSS2009: The Productive Programmer

Keynote: The Productive Programmer: On the Lam from the Furniture Police

Speaker: Neal Ford from Thought Works

Author of a book called “The Productive Programmer“, about single developer productivity.

Summary

I have to confess that I didn’t have very high expectations for this talk. I didn’t think it was going to be ‘technical’ enough, but in the end, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Neal talked about what makes programmers effective and how to achieve that state of mind where we are ‘in the zone’ and at o