Robert C. Martin has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects. He has authored "landmark" books on Agile Programming, Extreme Programming, UML, Object-Oriented Programming, and C++ Programming. He has published dozens of articles in various trade journals. Today, He is one of the software industry's leading authorities on Agile software development and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows. He is a former editor of the C++ Report and currently writes a monthly Craftsman column for Software Development magazine.

Mr. Martin is the founder, CEO, and president of Object Mentor Incorporated. Object Mentor is a sister company to Object Mentor International. Like OMI, Object Mentor is comprised of highly experienced software professionals who provide process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting , training, and development services to major corporations around the world.

What does it mean to be a professional software developer?  What rules do we follow?  What attitudes do we hold?  And how can we maintain our professionalism in the face of schedule pressure?  In this talk Robert C. Martin outlines the practices used by software craftsmen to maintain their professional ethics.  He resolves the dilemma of speed vs. quality, and mess vs schedule.  He provides a set of principles and simple Dos and Don’ts for teams who want to be counted as professional craftsmen.