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Trends in Big Data Testing[presentation]
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The Big Data has three unique characteristics—Volume, Velocity, and Variety. Today’s big data applications are growing dramatically. We must process data ever more quickly so we can respond to events as they happen, and that data is arriving from an ever wider array of channels... |
Stefano Rizzo, Polarion Software
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The Next Frontier of Agile: Journey to Continuous Delivery[presentation]
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Organizations are under pressure to release faster with higher quality, while business and technology environments are increasingly becoming more and more complex. How can you deploy great products quickly in such a challenging environment? Intuit, maker of TurboTax, is solving this... |
Nicole Sweeney, Intuit & Martin Franklin, Intuit
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Keynote: Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way: Scaling Agile Development[presentation]
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Tired of the claims that Scrum, XP, and kanban don’t scale beyond a few teams? Overwhelmed by management’s resistance to the organizational changes needed to really follow agile principles? Concerned with the lack of proven practices required to scale agile methods to the next level? |
Dean Leffingwell, Leffingwell LLC
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Transform Your Agile Test Process to Ship Fast with High Quality[presentation]
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Until 2009, the Atlassian JIRA team shipped a major release of its software every nine to twelve months. Everything was tested—every story and every bug fix—and everything still contained serious bugs. Story development moved quickly, but after the feature-complete date, several... |
Penny Wyatt, Atlassian
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The 21st Century Needs Radical Management[presentation]
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Most management methods in use today have been around for more than fifty years. During that time, the work has changed dramatically and so have the types of workers. The new ways of working that have emerged do not align well with the old ways of managing. In the 21st century, management... |
Bob Hartman, Agile For All
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An Interview with Michael Mah: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest trends and approaches for anyone investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Michael Mah, QSM Associates Inc.
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Hybrid Security Analysis: Bridging the Gap between Inside-Out and Outside-In[presentation]
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With the rising adoption of the cloud and the mobile revolution, software security is more important and complex than ever. The efforts of developers and testers are frequently disconnected, wasting time and reducing effectiveness. Arthur Hicken describes how hybrid security analysis... |
Arthur Hicken, Parasoft
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How to Jumpstart Enterprise Agile Adoption[presentation]
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Want to get a jumpstart on agile adoption in your organization? Begin by leveraging a roadmap that Intuit has used for rolling out enterprise agile to its business units. While there is no single way to bring enterprise agile into your organization, Alan Padula describes a model that has... |
Alan Padula, Intuit
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Find Requirements Defects to Build Better Software[presentation]
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Requirements defects are often the source of the majority of all software defects. Discovering and correcting a defect during testing is typically twenty-five times more expensive than correcting it during the requirements definition phase. Identifying and removing defects early in the... |
John Terzakis, Intel
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An Interview with Dawn Haynes: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest trends and approaches for anyone investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus Inc.
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Quality Debt: Is Your Project Going Bankrupt?[presentation]
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Every decision made during the course of a project can affect the quality of the final product. Compromises in functionality, design, or implementation invariably come with a cost, which must be paid. Without an adequate measure of the debt a product is carrying, no strategy to repay... |
Jordan Setters, Planit Software Testing, Ltd.
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Scrum for Global-Scale Development[presentation]
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A global development organization—in seven cities on three continents—has developers all using agile practices to develop complex applications. In addition to the common problems faced by distributed teams, they must deal with attrition rates in excess of 50 percent, possible loss of... |
James Lynn, SUTO Consulting
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Keynote: Magnificence: Culture Hacking, the Common Platform, and the Coming Golden Era[presentation]
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A culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that both describes and shapes a group. The unique challenges of creating software have demanded totally new types... |
Jim McCarthy, McCarthy Technologies Inc.
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Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West 2013: Seven Deadly Habits of Dysfunctional Software Managers[presentation]
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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—and ways to avoid them. |
Ken Whitaker, Leading Software Maniacs
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Agile Requirements Is Not an Oxymoron[presentation]
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Misconceptions abound about the way requirements fit—or don’t fit—into agile projects. Is “agile requirements” an oxymoron—two contradictory terms joined together? How is it possible for requirements to be agile? Do agile projects even need requirements? In reality, requirements are... |
Paul Reed, EBG Consulting
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