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MICHAEL FEATHERS
Discerner of the Code
@mfeathers
BIOGRAPHY:
Michael Feathers is the Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design. Over the years, Michael has spent a great deal of time helping teams after design over time in code bases. Michael is also the author of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code.
KEYNOTE
ERROR ELIMINATION AS A DESIGN DRIVER
As developers we spend a lot of time dealing with error cases. We write code to handle them or leverage our type systems prevent them. These are fine strategies but they don't cut to the core question - why do the error cases exist at all? Can we get rid of them. In this keynote, Michael Feathers will explore the idea that error cases are often missed design opportunities.
Here's all the relevant information for Michael's speaker page. For the keynote info, please emulate formatting from 2017 keynote speaker's pages. Michael should be added to the featured speakers on the landing page, and to the main speakers page.
MICHAEL FEATHERS Discerner of the Code @mfeathers
BIOGRAPHY:
Michael Feathers is the Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design. Over the years, Michael has spent a great deal of time helping teams after design over time in code bases. Michael is also the author of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code.
KEYNOTE
ERROR ELIMINATION AS A DESIGN DRIVER
As developers we spend a lot of time dealing with error cases. We write code to handle them or leverage our type systems prevent them. These are fine strategies but they don't cut to the core question - why do the error cases exist at all? Can we get rid of them. In this keynote, Michael Feathers will explore the idea that error cases are often missed design opportunities.