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A UX Strategy for Persona Research[presentation]
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Research into your users’ personas can provide deep insights into their needs and validate your product design. This research doesn’t have to take months; it can often be done in two weeks, during sprint 0. Unfortunately, many companies using agile methods don’t invest in personas and a... |
Nellie LeMonier, Perforce Software, Inc.
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Seeking the Agile Path through Database Design[presentation]
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Being first to market or meeting rapidly changing customer demands compels development teams to build systems while requirements are still being discovered. Developing a relational database design ahead of its requirements can paint you into a corner—with a product that suffers from... |
Jonathan Wiggs, Netmotion Wireless, Inc.
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Mobile Application Testing: Challenges and Best Practices[presentation]
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With the rapid rise of mobile devices including smartphones and tablets, many organizations are rolling out mobile apps to extend the reach of their traditional web applications. Although the methodology for mobile application testing is fundamentally the same as that of traditional web... |
Jimmy Xu, CGI
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Non-Pathological Software Metrics[presentation]
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As semi-scientific software professionals, we like the idea of measuring our work. In some cases, our bosses like the idea much more than we do. Yet, meaningful software development metrics are notoriously challenging to define, and many people have given up trying because metrics often... |
Stephen Frein, Comcast
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Lean Management: Lessons from the Field[presentation]
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Agile development methods such as Scrum, XP, and kanban have achieved notable success in improving speed to value, reducing waste, and raising customer and team satisfaction. Successful practitioners worldwide have cut development times, improved product quality, and reduced development cost. |
Sanjiv Augustine, LitheSpeed
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An Interview with Scott Ambler: 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. |
Scott Ambler, Scott W. Ambler + Associates
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The Evolution of Agile: Dealing with the Growing Pains[presentation]
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Agile development has evolved into a lifecycle that not only affects the IT department but the overall business as well. Forward-thinking enterprises recognize this and benefit from the software efficiency that agile development delivers. Through real-world examples, Jonathan Thorpe... |
Jonathan Thorpe, Serena Software
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Enhancing Developer Productivity with Code Forensics[presentation]
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Imagine an engineering system that could evaluate developer performance, recognize rushed check-ins, and use that data to speed up development. “Congratulations Jane. You know this code well. No check-in test gate for you.” Anthony Voellm shares how behavioral analysis and developer... |
Anthony Voellm, Google, Inc.
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Agile Development in a Regulated Environment[presentation]
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There is no doubt that agile is an accepted development methodology. However, if you work in a regulated industry like health care where you have to comply with its standard operating procedures, heaps of paperwork, and frequent audits, don’t these conflict with agile’s core tenets? |
Chris Ampenberger, PHT Corporation
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An Interview with Linda Rising: 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. |
Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
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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 of corporate culture. In response, we have created agile, Scrum, and XP. These represent the birth of... |
Jim McCarthy, McCarthy Technologies, Inc.
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Building Quality In[presentation]
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Have you ever delivered software to testing only to receive unexpected feedback regarding quality issues of interoperability, reliability, usability, or testability? Or worse, delivered to customers a product that fully met its specifications but generated complaints and calls for urgent... |
Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
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Agile Testing: It’s a Team Sport[presentation]
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Who is responsible for testing on agile teams? The answer is “Everybody”—and yet this is rarely the case. Often the testers write their test cases in isolation and execute them after development is finished. Developers write their code without talking to the testers except to understand... |
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, LeanDog
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Turbocharge Your Team’s Productivity: Increase Your Ability to Deliver[presentation]
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Many factors impact a team’s productivity. Some are well understood—collocation, size, common purpose. Others are less well known including social capital—the value of social networking. Rob Maher describes techniques that have been successfully used within organizations to enhance team... |
Rob Maher, Rob Maher Consulting
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Gamification to Solve Real-World Challenges[presentation]
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What can we learn from Angry Birds, which has been downloaded more than one billion times? What makes games engaging and fun? What is the secret that motivates players to mastery, even when they fail 80 percent of the time? What if we could reverse-engineer the principles behind a... |
Ram Srinivasan, inRhythm
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