Conference Presentations

Agile DevOps Agile Leadership Strategies: Winning the War on Complexity
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Development teams are at war with complexity. A solo programmer's craft is difficult enough, but team development adds more volatility and ambiguity—what the U.S. military calls “the fog of war.” Derek Wade’s background in cognitive science has shown him that humans have innate skills at...

Derek W. Wade
Agile DevOps Include Automated Testing in Your Definition of Done
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Even though most teams appreciate the benefits of test automation, it is commonly viewed as too time-consuming to be included as part of an agile sprint. This results in automation being done in isolation, typically months after the user story has been completed. This can lead to several...

Angie Jones
Agile DevOps Architectural Patterns for an Efficient Delivery Pipeline
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Continuous integration has made development faster and more reliable. However, as codebases expand, organizations are finding that their build pipelines slow down dramatically. One of the most common reasons is that we often rebuild parts of the system that don't need to be rebuilt.

Abraham Marin-Perez
Agile DevOps The Agile Dojo: Shiny Toy or Best Idea Ever?
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Remember your first two weeks on a scrum team? It was fantastic and miserable all at the same time. And when things got difficult, your team teetered on the edge of the waterfall. What if there were a way to help teams gel more quickly and accelerate their agile learning by immersing them...

Francie Van Wirkus
Agile DevOps Conference Transitioning to Agile Leadership
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The key to helping your teams transform and be successful in an agile world is to know what skills you need to be effective—and in turn, help your team navigate change. Jennifer Bonine focuses on providing a toolkit for agile leadership. Explore your level of acceptance of change, how...

Jennifer Bonine
Agile DevOps Software Craftsmanship in an Agile Environment
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In the past two decades agile has become the popular development methodology. Businesses have been rushing to adopt agile processes because it promises to save money and deliver working software more quickly. However, for many businesses, software quality has not improved—and...

Chris McKenzie
Agile DevOps Improv(e) Your Requirements
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Improvisational comedy—sometimes called improv—is a form of theater in which the performance is created spontaneously, in the moment. Successful improvisers learn and use a variety of skills and techniques which allow them to better extract ideas, expand on them, and make them meaningful...

Damian Synadinos
Agile DevOps Why Agile Works—and How (Not) to Screw It Up!
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Agile practices can be the easy part of agile. Getting people into the agile mindset is often a greater challenge. Do you have a team member who doesn’t quite support agile or someone who’s playing along but not really committed? One step toward obtaining real commitment is a better...

Perry Reinert
Agile DevOps Continuous Testing in DevOps
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Achieving continuous testing is a daunting task for many test teams still struggling with combining agile, test automation, and increased speed. We know that change is rarely easy. Fixing or getting rid of some practices is tough. However, one-step-at-a-time change can take you far and fast.

Michael Hackett
Agile DevOps The Future of Scrum
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In the past two decades, Scrum has become the standard for agile development, with more than 90 percent of teams today using Scrum to deliver working software. But, as Scrum starts into its third decade, it’s not the fresh-faced process framework that came into the world in the summer...

Dave West

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