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Oh, WASP! Security Essentials for Web Apps[presentation]
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The past few years have seen a rapid increase in business efficiency through Web-based applications. Unfortunately, a dramatic increase in the number of web application vulnerabilities has followed. Insecure web applications can be disastrous for mission critical businesses and users'... |
Benny Paul, Cognizant Technology Solutions
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Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar Some More[presentation]
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History repeats itself as people once again become addicted to process. Today’s difficult problems call for a renaissance of agility, drawing on past success as we invent the future. Real value lies in intentional and contextual selection of agile tools instead of the noise associated with... |
David Hussman, DevJam
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Validating Assumptions: From Unknown to Known[presentation]
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Although many organizations are successfully using agile practices to develop higher quality, customer-satisfying solutions faster and cheaper, an increasing number of companies are using the same practices to develop the wrong solutions—faster and with a higher level of quality, too. |
Ade Shokoya, AgileTV
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Transforming to Enterprise Agility: A Leadership Practicum[presentation]
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The pace of innovation, often hastened by agile software development, has begun to pull entire organizations into the desire and need for more agility. Phillip Cave shares his experiences transforming organizational behavior at the department and enterprise level. |
Phillip Cave , SolutionsIQ
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Adopt Before You Adapt: Learning Principles through Practice[presentation]
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Although agile principles sound simple, adopting agile is often extremely difficult. Some teams adopting agile start by making changes and tweaks to prescribed processes—bad! Steve Berczuk explains how following the recommended practices of your chosen agile method for a time will help... |
Steve Berczuk, Fitbit Inc.
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Sprinkle on Just Enough Process[presentation] How do you know if you have too much process, too little, or just the right amount? If you ignore process completely, unpredictability and chaos can follow. If you define the process to the nth degree and follow it religiously, the work grinds to a halt. Janet Gregory shares her... |
Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.
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Requirements Elicitation—the Social Media Way[presentation]
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Agile methods have proven their ability to improve project success rates. However, when agile methods are applied to complex projects, we need to further explore the area of effective customer involvement. According to the agile philosophy, the users must be part of the development team. |
Stefano Rizzo, Polarion Software
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Getting Ready for Your Agile Adventure[presentation]
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When a team is ready to embark on an agile adventure, it is vital to consider the behavioral and practical aspects of agile prior to jumping in. Mario shares the important readiness factors within his “Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone” deployment framework. |
Mario Moreira, Agile Consultant
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A Year of “Testing” the Cloud for Development and Test[presentation]
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Jim Trentadue describes the first year his organization used the cloud for its non-production needs: development, testing, training, and production support. Jim begins by describing the components of a cloud environment and how it differs from a traditional physical server structure. |
Jim Trentadue, New York Life
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Speed Grooming Requirements with SAFe[presentation]
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Want your sprint/iteration planning to take less than fifteen minutes (excluding tasking)? The key is in the story writing we do during backlog grooming. Although the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has little to say about story writing, this "speed grooming" practice makes iteration planning.. |
André Dhondt, Rally Software Development
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Pivoting Your Testers to Become Agile[presentation]
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Many organizations struggle with transforming from the old-style specialized silos of skills into agile teams with generalized specialists. Without this pivot, we get sub-optimal agile/Scrum environments. Howard Deiner describes what can go wrong when integrating testers properly into an... |
Howard Deiner, BigVisible Solutions
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Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2013: Avoiding Overdesign and Underdesign[presentation]
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The question of how much design to do up-front on a project is an engaging one. Too much design often results in overkill, complexity, and wasted effort. Too little design results in insufficient system structures that require later rework, additional complexity, and wasted effort. |
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
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How Experian Revolutionized Product Strategy and Management with Big Data[presentation]
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Agile discussions often focus on stories, backlogs, development, and testing. At Experian they also brought product strategy management and strategy into the agile fold to ensure their teams were in lock-step with customer requirements and priorities. That resulted in the delivery of... |
Jeff Hassemer, Experian
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An Automation Culture: The Key to Agile Success[presentation]
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For organizations developing large-scale applications, transitioning to agile is challenging enough. But if your organization has not yet adopted an automation culture, brace yourself for a big surprise because automation is essential to agile success. From the safety nets provided by... |
Geoff Meyer, Dell, Inc.
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Managing Multiple Teams at Scale with Scrum and Lean[presentation]
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Scrum has become very popular in agile development shops, but most organizations that adopt Scrum run into challenges when they expand beyond a few teams. Ken Paugh believes that you can overcome the challenging patterns of scaling Scrum by focusing on lean-flow. |
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
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