Jay Smith

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Microsoft MVP

Jay Smith is a Lead Programmer Analyst with Tyson Foods, Inc, based in Fayetteville, AR. Prior to joining Tyson Foods in April 2, 2001, Jay worked as a Windows Server Engineer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in Bentonville, AR. Jay as worked on a variety of web based applications for internal use, as well as, worked with internal teams to improve team efficiency and developer practice adoption. Jay focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer community in the Northwest Arkansas area while specializing in Software Architecture, Agile Practices(Scurm and Extreme Programming), and ASPNET MVC.

Sessions

Estimate Your Requirements with Planning Poker

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Day: 2
Room: DevExpress

Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of tasks in software development . It is a variation of the Wideband Delphi method. In this session you will learn not only what planning poker is but how to facilitate it with your team. Using Planning Poker to estimate task on your project is not only accurate its fun.

Things you will learn:

What is Planning Poker
Who need to be involved in a Planning Poker session
What you need to have a session
Who to host a planning session

The Creamy Goodness of NuGet

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Day: 2
Room: Fenway Group

NuGet is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.

There are a large number of useful 3rd party open source libraries out there for the .NET platform, but for those not familiar with the OSS ecosystem, it can be a pain to pull these libraries into a project.

Here is what you will learn:

What is NuGet?
How to add packages to your project
How to update packages in your project
How to host your own package repository
How to create and publish your own packages