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	The Future of Agile: Dilution, Calcification, or Evolution?[presentation] Video The agile revolution began more than a dozen years ago. It was started by a small band of rebels who had radical ideas, shared a common vision, and wanted to change the world by challenging the status quo. Where is that agile revolution today? Has it continued the vision of its founders?	Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan
	Privacy and Data Security: Minimizing Reputational and Legal Risks[presentation] Slideshow Privacy and data security are hot topics among US state and federal regulators as well as plaintiffs’ lawyers. Companies experiencing data breaches have been fined millions of dollars, paid out millions in settlements, and spent just as much on breach remediation efforts. In the past...	Tatiana Melnik, Melnik Legal, PLCC
	Executives’ Influence on Agile: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly[presentation] Slideshow The evidence is in—and it's compelling. Well-executed agile practices can shorten software project schedules by 30 percent while cutting defects by 75 percent. However, many organizations struggle with agile adoption. And some of these struggles can be attributed to the...	Steve Davi, Synacor
	Strategies for Mobile Web Application Testing[presentation] Slideshow Mobile web testing is still a widely unexplored territory—with no standardized tools or testing processes—where testers often struggle due to lack of guidance and resources. With mobile devices, tools, operating systems, and web technologies rapidly evolving, testers must adapt their...	Raj Subramanian, Progressive Insurance
	Transforming How We Deliver Value: Agility at Scale[presentation] Slideshow Continuous delivery in software development allows us to deliver incrementally, get quick feedback, and react. A key enabler is the adoption of agile techniques and methods; key inhibitors in the enterprise are size, scale, and complexity. The Rational ALM organization is a typical...	Amy Silberbauer, IBM
	Is Agile the Prescription for the Public Sector’s IT Woes?[presentation] Slideshow Information technology (IT) projects are notorious for exceeding budget and schedule estimates, and high visibility failures are common. IT projects in the public sector are particularly challenging. State, provincial, and federal governments worldwide have sponsored noteworthy disasters...	Payson Hall, Catalysis Group, Inc.
	Applying Courtship Principles: Hiring for the Long Term[presentation] Slideshow As managers, we tend to focus on improving our processes. But have you considered that good people—not processes—are really the foundation of high-quality software? Competent and skilled people—combined with good process—can consistently produce higher-quality software...	Philip Lew, XBOSoft
	Requirements Are Requirements—or Maybe Not[presentation] Slideshow Many people talk about requirements. They use identical terms and think they have a common understanding. Yet, one says user stories are requirements; another claims user stories must be combined with requirements; and yet another has a different approach. These “experts” seem unaware of...	Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
	The Agile PMO: Right Work, Right Time, Right People[presentation] One of the core functions of a PMO is to help an organization standardize efficient processes to select and execute strategic projects. Unfortunately, many PMOs are finding themselves struggling to justify their own existence. In a recent survey, more than half of the respondents reported...	Heather Fleming, Gilt Groupe, and Justin Riservato, Gilt Groupe
	Get Out of Your Comfort Zone―Now[presentation] Video In an industry that continues to rapidly evolve, the pressure to increase our mastery can be overwhelming. Whether browsing the web or your organization's technical library, it's discouraging to realize that many of the skills you’ve mastered are now obsolete, replaced by...	Tricia Broderick
	Breakthrough Portfolio Performance: Managing a Mix of Agile and Non-Agile Projects[presentation] Slideshow Agile has delivered impressive performance improvements at the project level, and some attempts to scale agile’s success to the IT project portfolio have also demonstrated good results. However, agile is not for all IT projects nor all project teams. Sometimes other approaches may be more...	Michael Hannan, Fortezza Consulting
	Managing Technological Diversity: Avoid Boiling the Ocean[presentation] Slideshow Drop everything! We need to regression test the newest browser version. Apple just released a new device and iOS. We need to test our site on IE11 with Windows 8.1. Sound familiar? The number of technologies our software products must be compatible with has grown exponentially, and the...	Katy Douglass, Nationwide Financial
	Continuous Delivery: Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job[presentation] Slideshow Until your code is in production, making money for your business, or otherwise doing what it was built to do, you are merely building toy castles in a technological sandbox. Continuous delivery gets more business value into production as soon as possible, validates business decisions, and...	Steve Povilaitis, LeadingAgile, LLC
	Gamification and Arbejdsglæde (Danish: Work Gladness/Joy)[presentation] Slideshow You get paid for doing that? Is it possible to both work and have fun in a large corporate setting? Can joy be made part of the workplace? For the past few years Ryan Kleps and his colleagues have been conducting an informal social experiment using gamification (before they knew it had...	Ryan Kleps, Boeing IT
	Seven Principles of Cross-Continent, Distributed Development[presentation] Slideshow Many teams practice agile development as an integral part of their organization with the benefits of collocation and local decision making. However, it is increasingly more common to develop code across continents, either in distributed organizations or with the help of offshore...	Igor Gejdos, Roche Diagnostics

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