My hunch is one of the main reasons people who attend Agile events tend to be on the mature side is because they've have families so they can't (and don't want to) spend their weekends at beer-fuelled hackathons and have seen that the root of software project success & failure is in the processes rather than the tools.
That kind of stuff is pretty boring for the younger generations who are still caught up in the idea that shiny technologies and gargantuan coding sessions can save the world and make them all billionares.
Company:
7digital is a leading digital B2B media delivery company based in London and operating globally. We provide Cloud-based services, MP3 music, ebooks and video services to a wide and diverse range of partners around the world.
Team:
You’ll be joining a team of extremely enthusiastic developers who enjoy what we do. Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:
* Have around two sessions a week spending time doing things like Katas, Dojos and discussing practices and technologies.
* Each get up to two days “innovation time” a month we can use to play with new toys or product ideas.
* Attend conferences and community events, both as participants and contributors (we’ve even shown off our processes at events like XPDay 2009 where we got some great feedback).
* Regularly retrospect (as teams and the department) on how we can improve the way we work.
That kind of stuff is pretty boring for the younger generations who are still caught up in the idea that shiny technologies and gargantuan coding sessions can save the world and make them all billionares.