Last year Dom Hodgson started a sweetshop with a friend after a conversation in a pub. Dom will take you through what a stupid idea this was initially and what has happened since.

An experience report describing how an agile project was delivered by a small team in 8 weeks. Half of the team were Quantitative Analysts who had little or no prior experience of the development process or language and were tasked with implementing their models directly in Java. The talk will concentrate on the techniques used to help deliver the project successfully ahead of schedule.