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	Incorporating 360 Degree App Quality in Mobile Development[presentation] Slideshow The exploding apps economy has increased the businesses’ need to have a strong mobile app presence. This has spurred a dramatic upward shift in mobile app development. Traditionally, testing has been done in the lab, replicating user environments and usage scenarios. However, that...	Roy Solomon, Applause
	Putting Quality in the Driver’s Seat with DevOps and ATDD[presentation] Slideshow Capital One has a highly integrated environment, creating many dependencies for its agile teams. As a result, the teams faced prolonged and increasingly more difficult sprints over time, and did not realize expected improvements in time to market. As Capital One Technology worked through...	Adam Auerbach, Capital One
	Test Automation in Agile: A Successful Implementation[presentation] Slideshow Many teams feel that they are forced to make an either/or decision when it comes to investing time to automate tests versus executing them manually. Sometimes a “silver bullet” tool is purchased, and testers are forced to use it when there may be a better option; other times unskilled team...	Melissa Tondi, Denver Automation and Quality Engineering
	Data-Driven Software Testing: The New, Lean Approach to Quality[presentation] Slideshow The Internet of Things and always connected devices are generating exabytes of user data and device telemetry. Organizations worldwide are leveraging this data for new products and new business insights, but this data is also fundamentally changing how organizations drive, assess, and...	Ken Johnston, Microsoft
	Crafting Smaller User Stories: Examples and Exercises[presentation] Slideshow Agile development techniques generally emphasize frequent iterations. But even after adopting agile values, methods, and ceremonies, many organizations struggle to make such iterations work in practice. These organizations inevitably wrestle with agile rhythms until they learn to break up...	Stephen Frein, Comcast
	Non-Functional Requirements: Forgotten, Neglected, and Misunderstood[presentation] Slideshow Implementing non-functional requirements is essential to build the right product. Yet teams often struggle with when and how to discover, specify, and test these requirements. Many teams neglect non-functional requirements up front, considering them less important or unrelated to user...	Paul Reed, EBG Consulting
	Software Managers: Their Place in Agile[presentation] Slideshow No more managers! No more hierarchy! A truly self organizing, self-running team! These phrases strike fear into managers almost as much as: We are moving to agile. As successful companies like Zappos, GitHub, and Treehouse discard managers from their teams, other software...	Brian Sobus, Teradata
	Software Testing’s Future—According to Lee Copeland[presentation] Slideshow The original IEEE 829 Test Documentation standard is thirty years old this year. Boris Beizer’s first book on software testing, Software Testing Techniques, also passed thirty. Testing Computer Software, the best-selling book on software testing, is more than twenty five. During the past...	Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
	Scaling Git for the Enterprise[presentation] Slideshow Due to its ease of use and distributed repository infrastructure, Git is quickly becoming the version control system of choice for many. Getting started takes only a few minutes, and available online tutorials explain Git basics and more advanced features including branching. As easy as...	Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting
	We Need It by the End of the Year: What's Your Estimate?[presentation] Slideshow Letting good estimates made by smart people be overwhelmed by the strong desires of powerful people is a cardinal sin of project management. Accurate estimates are the foundation of all critical project decisions regarding staffing, functionality, delivery date, and budget. How do we...	Tim Lister, Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc.
	Meeting Strict Documentation Requirements in Agile[presentation] Slideshow Teams in many organizations are still expected to produce and maintain significant amounts of documentation. This is generally the case in Federal, state, and local governments where systems must comply with SOX, HIPPA, NAIC, FDA, or SEC directives. In recent years, Agile has made...	Craeg Strong, Savant Financial Technologies, Inc.
	Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014: Seven Deadly Habits of Ineffective Software Managers[presentation] Slideshow As if releasing a quality software project on time were not difficult enough, poor management of planning, people, and process issues can be deadly to a project. Presenting a series of anti-pattern case studies, Ken Whitaker describes the most common deadly habits—along with ways to avoid...	Ken Whitaker, Leading Software Maniacs
	Seven Key Metrics to Improve Agile Performance[presentation] Slideshow It’s been said: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. For most agile teams burndown charts and some type of velocity measurement are all they are doing. However, with just a few more metrics, you can gain substantial insight into how teams are performing and identify improvement...	Andrew Graves, InterContinental Hotels Group
	Agility at Scale: WebSphere’s Agile Transformation[presentation] Slideshow In today's rapidly changing environment, organizations—both large and small—must quickly respond to shifting market requirements to remain competitive. To be successful, many are adopting agile development and continuous delivery methodologies to deliver software quickly, while keeping...	Susan Hanson, IBM Software Group
	The Coming Mobile Wearable World[presentation] Slideshow For better or for worse, like it or not, mobile wearables are already changing our lives. Combined with social media, mobile wearable devices form a new generation of personalized technology that knows us better than our closest friends. How many of your friends know how far you...	Philip Lew, XBOSoft

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