Kevlin Henney & Jon Jagger's Deliberate Practice Days February 8, 2011

How do you develop expertise? Peter Norvig writes: "The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again."

For a developer, deliberate practice means trying new things, trying old things with a view to making them fresh and trying to move from accidental practice to intentional discipline. Deliberate practice improves technical agility through increased self awareness.

Kelvin and Jon over the two days will practice reflecting on what we do, working together and developing software, for which we will be using CyberDojo, an innovative, collaborative, browser-based environment. The course will include software and non-software exercises, developing other skills you may find useful.

This course is targeted at developers, architects and anyone else who has a development background who wants to improve the skills that glue all of their technical skills together, please follow the link for more information.

Kevlin Henney is a regular columnist for various industry magazines and a well known and popular speaker on topics such OO Design and Agile Development at conferences in Europe and North America.

Most of Kevlin's work focuses on software architecture, patterns, development process and programming languages. His work has appeared in several magazines and online publications. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know project.

Jon Jagger is a well-known software coach-consultant-mentor-trainer-programmer specializing in agile software development (people and process), test driven development, deliberate practice, design, analysis, OO, UML, curly bracket languages ( C#, C, C++, Java).

This course is targeted at developers, architects and anyone else who has a development background who wants to improve the skills that glue all of their technical skills together.

Official Website: http://skillsmatter.com/course/agile-testing/deliberate-practice-days/wd-1301