Autumn of Agile

"A follow-up series that focuses on demonstrating core Agile values and understanding the basic agile techniques and practices (for .NET developers, of course) that reinforce these values. The tentative context for this demonstration would be the building of a real-world application that would allow me to demonstrate for viewers how the ALT.NET principles guide our application development process in some detail. Just as with the Summer of NHibernate series, this screencast series would have broad value for our own internal training needs as well as benefiting the larger community. I am tentatively planning on reviving the long-dead SkillsPortal project that I had begun the development process on some time ago using ASP.NET webforms and an MVP architecture and starting completely over again from scratch using ASP.NET MVC and DDD tactics to rework the project from the beginning. A little bit different from the Summer of NHibernate where we took a deep dive into a single technology over the course of the entire series, this series is envisioned as a toe-in-the-water style introduction to the technology elements that are often employed to support an agile approach to development in the .NET ecosystem. There would certainly be code samples and practical development skills to be derived from viewing these sessions, but their primary focus would be on concepts rather than an explicit detailed how-to in the same way as the Summer of NHibernate series was designed to impart explicit coding knowledge into viewers. The goal of this screencast series would be to lay the groundwork for better understanding the principles and values that define ALT.NET and lead to the adoption of the practices that we will investigate."