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An Interview with Mik Kersten: 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. |
Mik Kersten, Tasktop
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The Four Dimensions of Performance Improvement[presentation]
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Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a team dealt with unrealistic deadlines, impossible stakeholders, and demotivated testers, who had no time to do things smarter and faster, just hammering away on the project “hamster wheel.” Then one day, as if heaven sent, a magical, but... |
Marisa Müller, Micro to Mainframe (Pty) Ltd.
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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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The Agile Tester’s Mindset[presentation]
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On traditional projects, testers usually join the project after coding has started—or even later when coding is almost finished. Testers have no role in advising the project team early regarding quality issues but focus only on finding defects. They become accustomed to this style of... |
Janet Gregory, DragonFire, Inc.
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Testing Cloud-Based Applications: What’s Different, What’s the Same[presentation]
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Cloud platforms are being rapidly adopted because of their beneficial properties including scalability, multi-tenancy, and self-managed functionality. As a result, more and more organizations are moving applications and services from traditional hosting to the cloud. This change in... |
Bindu Laxminarayan, Rackspace
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An Interview with Steven "Doc" List: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest tools, trends, and issues regarding software development approaches, plan-driven development methods, and process improvement programs, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Steven “Doc” List, Santeon Group
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Keynote: The Art of Change: Influence Skills for Leaders[presentation]
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An organization’s ability to make improvement, whether for greater agility or other goals, involves two components—a technical component and a people component. The technical component is generally logical, linear, and relatively straightforward, and the technical change agents are... |
Dale Emery, DHE
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Keynote: Lean Software Delivery: Synchronizing Cadence with Context[presentation]
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Daily, we are told that adopting agile, PaaS, DevOps, crowdsourced testing, or any of the myriad of current buzzwords will help us deliver better software faster. |
Mik Kersten, Tasktop
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How to Survive the Coming Test Automation Zombie Apocalypse[presentation]
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Test automation is software development. To automate tests well, you have to have brains. Unfortunately, the very brains that make you good at your job also make you highly attractive to zombies. Like all zombies, test automation zombies are brainless, insatiable, and relentless. |
Dale Emery, DHE
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Leading the Creation of an Agile Culture[presentation]
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Even today, to the detriment of agile success, most organizational cultures remain delivery date-driven—resulting in delivery teams that are not focused on creating value for the customer. So how can we redirect stakeholders, the business, and the project team to concentrate on delivering... |
Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova
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Building Customer Feedback Loops: Learn Quicker, Design Smarter[presentation]
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Listening to your customers is critical to developing better software. Their feedback enables you to stay in sync with customer expectations, to make changes before those changes become costly, and to pivot if necessary. Sharif shares five practical tips for building, capturing, and scaling.. |
Sherif Mansour, Atlassian
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An Interview with Noel Wurst: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest tools, trends, and issues regarding software development approaches, plan-driven development methods, and process improvement programs, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Noel Wurst, Software Quality Engineering
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Mob Programming: A Whole Team Approach[presentation]
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Teamwork is an important component of agile software development. We all agree that teamwork must be nurtured and grown in our organizations. But what does it mean to work as a team in the world of software development? How can we encourage our “teams” to truly work “as a team?” |
Woody Zuill, Hunter Industries
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Building a Team Backlog: The Power of Retrospectives[presentation]
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“Inspect and adapt” is one of the basic tenets of continuous improvement, and agility in general. Holding retrospectives is one of the core processes that allows teams to look back and reflect on their progress. However, over time, teams may focus only on the product work and lose interest... |
Kanchan Khera, McKinsey & Company & Bhuwan Lodha, McKinsey & Company
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Behavior-Driven Design in Practice[presentation]
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One of software development’s greatest challenges is combining business needs with technical abilities to build products that customers want. Many development methodologies attempt to achieve this, but Nir Szilagyi and Janarthanan Eindhal think that few connect the dots as well as... |
Nir Szilagyi, eBay, Inc. & Janarthanan Eindhal, eBay, Inc.
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