Gojko Adzic

For the last couple of years, I’ve been working with mid-size and large UK bookmakers, trying to introduce agile development practices into those environments on several projects. Although for most of the readers of this blog using agile practices is no longer a question, agile development is fairly rare when it comes to databases, and all these systems were heavily database-centric. About a year ago, I finally found the right formula to do agile development on top of big legacy databases. I presented my experiences at XpDay 07 in London, on a session called “Fighting the monster – agile development on top of legacy databases”. This is the content from that presentation. Continue Reading »

If you are interested in how agile development works with databases, come to XPDay 7 in London on November 19th. I will be talking about the project that inspired me to create DbFit, and sharing my experiences on how to fight attitudes and technology to bring database development into an agile form.