Article

Better Estimates with Planning Poker

PHPMaster.com, January 2011
A post on PHPMaster.com (unrelated to the book but also belonging to SitePoint) about my favourite estimation technique: Planning Poker. The idea is that you ask a group of developers to take estimates on small tasks, and compare their answers. If they are in agreement, it’s likely to be a good estimate – but if not, further specification is needed.

Article: http://phpmaster.com/planning-poker/

Slides

Things I Wish New Graduates Knew

Guest Lecture, November 2011
I get asked sometimes to speak to students studying relevant courses at university. These are the slides I used for a talk at Leeds Met, who are very local to me and whom I interact with quite a bit. There weren’t many students there but those that were I hope took something from it.

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/things-i-wish-web-graduates-knew

Slides

Teach A Man To Fish

PHPCon Poland, October 2011
I went to Poland for the first time to deliver this professional/team development talk as one of their invited speakers. I had a truly wonderful time there, and I think the talk went quite well as well!

Blog post: http://lornajane.net/posts/2011/phpcon-poland-conference-report


Feedback:

http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/teach-a-man-to-fish-phpconpl-edition

Slides

Join In With Joind.In

PHP North West 2011 Unconference, October 2011
Short talk for the unconference about the joind.in project, where to get involved, what we’ve got planned, and generally a great opportunity for me to talk interrupted on one of my favourite topics for 15 minutes!


http://www.slideshare.net/lornajane/join-in-with-joindin