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	Modern Evolutionary Software Architectures[presentation] Slideshow For many years, software architecture was described as the “parts that are hard to change later.” Modern advances in architecture have shown that if architects build evolvability into the architecture, change becomes easier. Neal Ford describes a family of software architectures that...	Neal Ford
	DevOps and Regulatory Compliance—Like Oil and Water or Peanut Butter and Jelly?[presentation] Slideshow DevOps and regulatory compliance are two critically important ingredients in today’s connected organizations. DevOps enables you to move quickly and respond to change in an era where change is increasing at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. Regulatory compliance ensures...	Brandon Carlson
	Move Your Selenium Testing to the Cloud[presentation] Slideshow What is the most challenging aspect of running automation tests? Anshul Sharma believes it is covering multiple browsers and cross-device testing combined with faster execution of tests. The conventional way to do this is by distributing the tests on Selenium Grid, but that comes with a...	Anshul Sharma
	The T-Shaped Scrum Team: Get in Shape for Your Future[presentation] Slideshow Today, agile teams are being asked to do more than ever before. The notion of a T-shaped person, created by Tim Brown (CEO of IDEO) in the 1990s, describes a new breed of worker—one who goes beyond the standard, assigned role. Mary Thorn believes that the roles of team members can stretch...	Mary Thorn
	DevOps: The Key to Quality-Driven Development[presentation] Slideshow Rapidly evolving business demands and competitive environments pose challenges to increase the speed of delivery and do better with less. This often results in sacrificing quality and failing to understand that a minimum viable product must be “viable” to the customer. When organizations...	Gajan Pathmanathan
	Notes from the Test Management Battlefield[presentation] Slideshow Are you a new, aspiring, or experienced manager tasked with building a team of stars? Do you manage a team that needs to be motivated or re-energized? Join Tanya Kravtsov as she shares stories, tips, and tricks on hiring, on-boarding, and managing test engineers and turning your group...	Tanya Kravtsov
	Microservices and Docker: Foundation for a New Generation of Applications[presentation] Slideshow Docker has matured and expanded from its primary use in the build/test stages into production deployments. Similarly, microservices are expanding from use mostly for greenfield web services to use in the enterprise as organizations explore ways to decompose their monolith to support faster...	Avantika Mathur
	Scaling Automated Tests: Choosing an Appropriate Subset[presentation] Slideshow Automated testing of an application with many dependent services can be challenging. Achieving continuous deployment across these services can be even more so. Managing, coordinating, and scaling deployments of services can become overwhelming and error prone over time.	Manoj Pahuja
	Identify Development Pains and Resolve Them with Idea Flow[presentation] Slideshow With the explosion of new frameworks, a mountain of automation, and our applications distributed across hundreds of services in the cloud, the level of complexity in software development is growing at an insane pace. With increased complexity comes increased costs and risks. When...	Janelle Klein
	DevOps in an Embedded and Regulated Environment[presentation] Slideshow Working in embedded environments greatly restricts the tools available for a DevOps pipeline. A regulated environment changes the processes a development team can use to deliver software. This combination results in a highly restricted environment that forces the team back to first...	Arjun Comar
	Implement DevOps Like a Unicorn—Even If You’re Not One[presentation] Slideshow Etsy, Netflix, and the unicorns have done great things with DevOps. Although most people don't work at a unicorn, they still want to combine agility and stability. To close the gap between developers and operations, Mason Leung says his company runs operation workshops, blogs about...	Mason Leung
	Continuous Testing in DevOps[presentation] Slideshow Achieving continuous testing is a daunting task for many test teams still struggling with combining agile, test automation, and increased speed. We know that change is rarely easy. Fixing or getting rid of some practices is tough. However, one-step-at-a-time change can take you far and fast.	Michael Hackett
	Metrics to Assess Risk in DevOps[presentation] Slideshow As software development becomes more value-focused, the need for a fluid production process emerges. That process is DevOps. However, when the number of release cycles rises, so does the risk of disruptive code entering the system and eroding the value that development creates.	Bill Dickenson
	Demystifying DevOps Adoption[presentation] Slideshow Many organizations are either talking about DevOps or already working toward its adoption. Books and conferences around DevOps abound, and it seems that DevOps engineers are in high demand. What impact does adopting DevOps have on a company and its people? What does DevOps look like from...	Adam Auerbach
	Finding Efficiencies in Your Development Lifecycle[presentation] Slideshow Many of us feel like we never have enough time to complete everything we want in a given sprint, cycle, or phase. Even though we can't add more hours to our day, we can add time by removing inefficiencies in our development lifecycle management approach. Melissa Tondi explores a number of...	Melissa Tondi

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