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A Case Study in Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement [presentation]
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Continuous improvement is the goal of agile teams. But what does it look like when we create a continuous improvement strategy beyond our agile teams and bring it to the company level? |
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Outcome Over Output: Don't Be a Backlog Lumberjack[presentation]
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As agile goes mainstream, many organizations are only focused on mastering different elements of agile frameworks. Progress is measured by vanity metrics such as velocity and burndown charts. |
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Secrets from the Authors of the Agile Manifesto[presentation]
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Agile coach Ryan Lockard interviewed fourteen of the seventeen authors of the Agile Manifesto for a special podcast project. |
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Managing Microservices Using Terraform, Docker, and the Cloud[presentation]
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Much has been written about how to write microservices, but not enough about how to effectively deploy and manage them. Microservices architecture multiplies the number of deployables IT has to manage by at least ten. |
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You Only Have to Change One Thing to Make DevOps Work: Everything[presentation]
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We’re told that adopting DevOps can have all sorts of benefits, but many organizations are not getting the results they hoped for. The term “DevOps” has been co-opted to mean anything from tools to a job title. |
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Taking Your Automation Framework to the Next Level Using Machine Learning[presentation]
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Automation fails frequently in companies due to a variety of reasons, including poor team communication, lack of skills, flaky tests, and inadequate understanding of test coverage. |
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Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Testers[presentation]
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Testing in agile teams is still one of the great mysteries of the agile world. In many organizations, testers continue to be marginalized. In others, testers are active but rarely understand or reach the full potential of their role. |
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Leadership from Within an Agile Team[presentation]
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Teams struggle for many reasons, leaving people frustrated, complacent, and content to exist in mediocrity. There is a secret sauce that propels individuals, teams, and entire organizations to be really successful. |
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5 Overlooked Opportunities in Agile Estimation[article] Agile story estimation gives the team insight into the level of effort for each work item, allows the team to assess each requirement’s relative priority, and lets the team refine and clarify story items. But there are even more benefits that can be gained from the estimation process. Try to take advantage of these five opportunities for growth when your team is estimating stories. |
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Faster Food and a Better Place to Sleep: Applying Agile Outside Software [presentation]
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Agile methods aren’t just for software anymore—actually, they haven’t been for quite a while. Agile's collaborative, iterative, incremental approaches to work have caused it to go mainstream. |
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When Continuous Improvement Feels Like Constantly Failing – An Introduction to Design Thinking[presentation]
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Do your Retrospectives feel like a repeat of the last one? Are they moan and groan sessions? Want to try something new to give your team a boost? |
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Fuel Agility with Transparent Expectations[presentation]
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Essential Product Ownership: It takes a Village[presentation]
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Open Source Tools for Performance Testing and Monitoring[presentation]
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Are you finding it hard to make time for performance testing? Does your code end up shipping to production with little or no performance validation due to the lack of tools or expertise? |
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Automated Testing for New-Gen Digital Interactions: Chatbots, Alexa, and Siri[presentation]
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Today’s IT systems communicate with customers through multiple points of engagement and various interfaces, ranging from web, mobile, and voice to BOTs and apps like Alexa and Siri. |
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