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	Transitioning to Agile Leadership[presentation] Slideshow The key to helping your teams transform and be successful in an agile world is to know what skills you need to be effective—and in turn, help your team navigate change. Jennifer Bonine focuses on providing a toolkit for agile leadership. Explore your level of acceptance of change, how...	Jennifer Bonine
	Integrate Security into DevOps[presentation] Slideshow Software security often evokes negative feelings among software developers because it is associated with additional programming effort, uncertainty, and road-blocking activity on a fast release cycle. Secure software developers must follow a number of guidelines that, while intended to...	Hasan Yasar
	Experience Agile Emergence through Sketch Comedy[presentation] Slideshow “The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” Most people read this principle from the Agile Manifesto and focus on the self-organization element. What about the concept of emergence? Exactly how do requirements and designs emerge? And how do...	John Krewson
	Guiding Cultural Adoption of Agile at Scale[presentation] Slideshow Many approaches to implementing agile focus primarily on the adoption of common practices at the team level. While this focus on practices is important, recognizing that agile is a set of overarching values and principles is also important. Adopting agile “at scale” in organizations often...	Ebenezer Ikonne
	Architectural Patterns for an Efficient Delivery Pipeline[presentation] Slideshow Continuous integration has made development faster and more reliable. However, as codebases expand, organizations are finding that their build pipelines slow down dramatically. One of the most common reasons is that we often rebuild parts of the system that don't need to be rebuilt.	Abraham Marin-Perez
	Application Resiliency: Keys to Planning for IoT and the Cloud[presentation] Slideshow The technology storms continue to form and merge. The Internet of Things, software-defined everything, blockchain, and cloud computing are combining and recombining in new ways. To provide and consume trusted and resilient services, solutions must be defined and designed to accommodate...	Steven Woodward
	Agile at the Intersection of Mobile, Cloud, and the Internet of Things[presentation] Slideshow The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a $1.7 trillion market by 2020. Don MacIntyre explains how agile is being used in Internet of Things systems—often combined with mobile and cloud technologies. Don reviews how agile is successfully being used today in a wide range of development...	Don MacIntyre
	The Future of Scrum[presentation] Slideshow In the past two decades, Scrum has become the standard for agile development, with more than 90 percent of teams today using Scrum to deliver working software. But, as Scrum starts into its third decade, it’s not the fresh-faced process framework that came into the world in the summer...	Dave West
	Agile Leadership Strategies: Winning the War on Complexity[presentation] Slideshow Development teams are at war with complexity. A solo programmer's craft is difficult enough, but team development adds more volatility and ambiguity—what the U.S. military calls “the fog of war.” Derek Wade’s background in cognitive science has shown him that humans have innate skills at...	Derek W. Wade
	Visual Management Gone Wild[presentation] Slideshow A visual management system is a low-tech tool with a simple mission—to visually represent the work that the team is doing. When used regularly and correctly, it can be a project acceleration tool. However, teams often go wild with visuals, decorating every inch of free wall space with...	Nichole Vanderlaan
	Setting and Measuring Individual Performance in Agile Teams[presentation] Slideshow When software development teams work in waterfall environments, traditional performance management programs can help encourage personal development and innovation. However, Tina Rusnak says that when organizations move to agile, measuring performance takes on a new form that often causes...	Tina Rusnak
	Why Agile Works—and How (Not) to Screw It Up![presentation] Slideshow Agile practices can be the easy part of agile. Getting people into the agile mindset is often a greater challenge. Do you have a team member who doesn’t quite support agile or someone who’s playing along but not really committed? One step toward obtaining real commitment is a better...	Perry Reinert
	Why You Shouldn’t Automate – And Why You Will Anyway[presentation] Slideshow Automation has been touted as a way to speed up release delivery, improve quality, and reduce testing costs. However, what if there is a different side to this story? Come hear an opposing view to automation—and why it may actually cost your organization time, resources, and even quality.	Kevin Pyles
	Include Automated Testing in Your Definition of Done[presentation] Slideshow Even though most teams appreciate the benefits of test automation, it is commonly viewed as too time-consuming to be included as part of an agile sprint. This results in automation being done in isolation, typically months after the user story has been completed. This can lead to several...	Angie Jones
	Storytelling Techniques for Better Requirements[presentation] Slideshow Do you struggle with making your ideas clear and understandable to others? Does it annoy you to sit in requirements sessions for hours only to leave with more questions than answers? As human beings, we’re made for storytelling. It is a natural form of communication. So, Jeff Howey...	Jeff Howey

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