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STAREAST 2018 Elegant Test Weapons for a More Civilized Age[presentation]
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Software Engineering as a discipline is always evolving. The technologies and tools that were in vogue yesterday are passé today and gone altogether tomorrow.

Melissa Benua
STAREAST 2018 Influencing Stakeholders Using Fact-based Information[presentation]
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With all the open source tools available on the market it can be overwhelming as to which ones might meet your needs and which ones will work best in your environment to create a high performing team and metrics dashboard.

Jennifer Bonine
Changeable code The Value of Test-Driven Development when Writing Changeable Code[article]

Writing changeable code makes it easier and more cost-effective to add features to existing software. Writing changeable code doesn’t take longer, but it does require paying attention to certain things when building a system. It's important to have a good suite of unit tests that support refactoring code when needed, and test-driven development helps you create independently testable code.

David Bernstein's picture David Bernstein
Peer to Peer Session: Solving Your Continuous Delivery Problems[presentation]
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Peer-to-peer Discussion: How Do I Make CD Work in My Environment? Building a successful continuous delivery pipeline is very context specific.

Lee Eason
Sunil Sehgal Deciding if You’re Technically Ready for DevOps: An Interview with Sunil Sehgal[interview]
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In this interview, Sunil Sehgal, the managing partner of TechArcis Solutions, defines DevOps and whether or not your team has the technical savvy to properly adopt its practices. He explains what DevOps means for developers and testers and details what DevTestOps truly is—and why it's essential.

Jennifer Bonine's picture Jennifer Bonine
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Waterfall to Scrum: It Only Goes Up from Here[presentation]
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You’re a project manager using a waterfall methodology, but the team is not making progress on the work and deadlines are not being met.

Toiya Jones-Current
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Three-Minute Improv Games to Improve Your Teams[presentation]
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The problem with many agile teams is that they simply never become a team. This often manifests itself as team members feeling unsafe or not quite trusting each other.

Wayde Stallmann
DevOps West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018 I, Project Manager: Meet the Future of AI Software Delivery[presentation]
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Rachel Burger
DevOps West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018 Aligning Zero-Touch Nonfunctional Testing in DevOps Implementation[presentation]
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When a host of applications and data centers get migrated from their traditional IT systems to a cloud-based data center using an automated DevOps model of deployment, effective testing is critical to success.

Subash Newton
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 The Impact of Agile Quantified[presentation]
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For years, people have made recommendations for how to develop software in an agile way based almost entirely on intuition, folklore, and anecdotes.

Larry Maccherone
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Brewing Great Agile Team Dynamics: No More "Bitter Beer Face" Communications[presentation]
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Ever find yourself making a sour face after talking to a coworker? Wishing your team meetings felt more like an engaging social hour? There is hope.

Allison Pollard
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Engineering Productivity and Enterprise Quality at Scale[presentation]
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Over the past two years, PayPal has been on a journey to modernize its internal development and test systems, from test environments, implementing enterprise continuous integration and code propagation into the development pipeline, to rel

Nir Szilagyi
Building the Perfect Product Backlog[presentation]
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"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." This quote from Peter Drucker identifies why even the most productive agile teams may not always deliver the most successful business solutions.

Jamie Lynn Cooke
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Taking Your Team from Dysfunctional to Dynamic[presentation]
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Does it seem like your team is the antithesis of agile? Being negative or fearful, resisting change, or hoarding information are common pitfalls that impede progress and can sink an agile team.

Michelle Vician
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Things Are Broken: A Case Study In Moving Too Fast[presentation]
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"Move fast and break things” tells quite a story of the relationship between speed and agile. Speed has been a driver in our industry before it was even an industry.

Chris Murman

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