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Scaling Agile Adoption Beyond the Development Team[presentation] Given the success of agile at the development team level, managers are exploring the possibility of implementing agile methodologies across the entire product lifecycle organization-beyond software development. |
Michael Cottmeyer, Pillar Technology
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Better Software Conference West 2010: Concurrent Testing Games: Developers and Testers Working Together[presentation] The best software development teams find ways for programmers and testers to work closely together to build quality into their software. |
Abby Fichtner, Microsoft
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Better Software Conference West 2010: Making a Long Story Short: Splitting User Stories[presentation] When a single user story mixes both high- and low-value functionality or contains too many or unrelated customer needs, the flow of value slows. You must wait for the whole story to be finished before benefiting from its highest value parts. |
Bill Wake, Industrial Logic, Inc.
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Coaching Agility--Producing Value[presentation] If you are an agile coach and your team or organization is struggling to adopt agile methods or is backsliding, this class is for you. |
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Enterprise Agile Adoption: Barriers, Paths, and Cultures[presentation] While agile adoption continues to grow rapidly in the software product development world, it has not been as widely adopted within enterprise IT departments. |
Mike Stuedemann, Medtronic
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Performance and Security Testing in Agile Development[presentation] While most organizations are starting to come to terms with the process aspects of agile, they still face challenges when identifying how to modify their testing practices to be more flexible. |
Tracy DeDore, Hewlett-Packard
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Cards, Conversation, Confirmation: Interviewing Skills for Agile Requirements[presentation] Valuable products start with understanding the needs of the customers-what they want and how they will use the product. |
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Being There: War Stories from Collocated and Distributed Teams[presentation] Since the early days of agile, we've known that face-to-face communication is optimal. |
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Scrum: The Basics[presentation] Too many software projects spend too much time and money delivering too little, too late. Projects drag on for months, either thrashing from the chaos of ever-changing requirements or rigidly rejecting legitimate changes. |
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Agile (Line) Management[article] Evidence shows that agile development done well can positively affect your ROI. But if these methods are so great, why doesn’t every team adopt them? Look to management for the answer. |
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Moving Agile Beyond Software[presentation] Agility is not a goal for its own sake. More than a great way to build software, agile principles are a way to build a great company that predictably delivers products through alignment and visibility across all parts of the business. |
Ryan Martens, Rally Software Development
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It's the People; It's Always the People[presentation] Why do we insist on calling people “resources?” If software projects were a factory, people would be fungible-interchangeable equipment just like desks and computers. |
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Are You a Develoment Professional?[presentation] The past decade brought the rise of the Agile movement, which split into two parts-Scrum, dominating the project management practices of agile; and XP, dominating its technical practices. |
Robert Martin, Object Mentor
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You Can Always Get What You Want[presentation] Agile, waterfall, iterative, staged, gated, phased-none of it really matters if all you create are a few early "wins", mediocre solutions, and quick fixes. |
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Testing in an SOA Environment[presentation] Testing Web applications built with service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not the same as testing any other GUI-based application. |
Sanjeev Padasalgi, Sonata Software Ltd.
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