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	Measure DevOps for Objective Continuous Improvement Practices[presentation] Slideshow Logan Daigle says DevOps has brought about unprecedented changes in the way organizations solve problems and break down silos. DevOps is empowering employees to automate expensive processes and leverage the power of cross-functional teams to benefit development and operations...	Logan Daigle
	Balance Discovery and Delivery with Dual-Track Agile[presentation] Slideshow Do your product teams frequently struggle to have groomed and well-defined stories ready for the developers? Do you find yourselves frequently in “feed the beast” mode to keep your development teams busy? Do your product teams have problems gaining shared understanding across product...	Sean McKeever
	Sustaining Agility—After the Consultants Leave[presentation] Slideshow Organizations transitioning to agile often hire external consultants to help them become more agile. However, what tends to happen six months after the consultants leave is that the organization is often left with more—and different—problems than they had before. Susan Lin says this...	Susan Lin
	Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)—A Model for Scaling Agile Teams[presentation] Slideshow A hierarchy is an organizational network that has a top and a bottom, and where position is determined by rank, importance, and value. A holarchy is a network that has no top or bottom and where each person’s value derives from his ability, rather than position. As more companies seek the...	Jeff Dalton
	Keep Engagement High in Difficult Projects[presentation] Slideshow Aggressive timelines, scope creep, changing requirements, development delays, and the imperative to finish on the imposed timeline … how can you keep your team motivated and engaged when everything seems to go wrong? Larissa Rosochansky describes the major factors of team...	Larissa Rosochansky
	The Mass Extinction of Manual Processes: A DevOps Success Story[presentation] Slideshow Large organizations can be filled with manual processes, and many people feel they are stuck with them. Bill Roberts and James La Spada tell the story of how Capital One used DevOps culture and kanban principles to significantly increase the speed of feature delivery—while lowering risk.	Bill Roberts and James La Spada
	Scale: The Most Hyped Term in Agile Development Today[presentation] Slideshow Scrum is everywhere. More than 90 percent of agile teams use it. But for many organizations wanting to scale agile, one team using Scrum is not enough. Dave West says the Nexus Framework, created by Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum, provides an exoskeleton for Scrum. Nexus allows...	Dave West
	The Five Common Unconscious Biases Affecting Your Team[presentation] Slideshow Are you having a difficult time finding female engineers to join your teams? Are you currently working on a project which seems to be going nowhere? Have you ever engaged in what you thought was customer-driven work only to later discover it was stakeholder-driven? When it comes to...	Catherine Louis
	Put Agile to the Test: A Case Study for Test Agility on a Large IT Project[presentation] Slideshow Agile practices, although applicable to a variety of situations, are most commonly applied to IT projects, generally for software development. Can you apply agile methods to just part of a software implementation project? Todd Jones presents this case study where agile techniques were...	Todd Jones
	Pin the Tail on the Metric: A Field-Tested Agile Game[presentation] Slideshow Metrics don’t have to be a necessary evil. If done right, metrics can help guide us to make better forward-looking decisions, rather than being used for simply managing or monitoring. They can help us identify trade-offs between options for what to do next versus punitive or worse...	Steve Martin
	Measure Anything: The Quality, Productivity, Predictability, and Engagement Model[presentation] Slideshow Measuring software development is difficult. Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of complex initiatives (such as adopting agile) is even more difficult. One department at IBM struggled to reduce a list of 150 metrics down to a top twenty to use in consulting engagements. Through the...	Anthony Crain
	My Dad Won’t Buy Me a DevOps[presentation] Slideshow Many IT managers find themselves banging their heads against a wall trying to get upper management to invest in DevOps. Managers see clear opportunities to implement it into their organizations but get a No from senior executives. Many managers are frustrated that, despite all the...	T.j. Randall
	Turn the Lights On: A Power Utility Company's Agile Transformation[presentation] Slideshow Why would a century-old utility with no direct competitors take on the challenge of transforming its entire IT application organization to an agile methodology? In an increasingly interconnected world, the expectations of customers continue to evolve. From smart meters to smart phones, IoT...	Glen Morris
	Leverage Streaming Data in a Microservices Ecosystem[presentation] Slideshow Imagine a world where operational data is continuously flowing from applications and devices at an extremely high rate. Now imagine services intercepting this data and analyzing it real time. Sounds futuristic? It's not—it's here today. Mark Richards describes what streaming architecture...	Mark Richards
	Use Mind Maps to Increase Team Velocity and Communication[presentation] Slideshow Ever sit in a strategy review session and get little or no participation from others? Or feel like you left a planning session with a different understanding of what was agreed to? If you feel there must be a more effective way to communicate important information around your strategy and...	Jennifer Bonine

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