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What Rugby Can Teach You about Trust in Agile Teams[article] Unconditional support, trust, respect, generosity, and courage are the behavioral values required for agile—and also for rugby. On the surface, the software development methodology and the rough team sport may seem to have little in common. But Luis Novella writes that rugby can actually teach you a lot about agile. |
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Assessing the Business Value of Agile User Stories[article] Allan Kelly says that ideally, companies should put a dollar amount on each planned business decision. But pinning down financial value can be hard, and besides, there are many other factors to consider, such as sustainability and customer service. He looks at various ways to assess the business value of user stories. |
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Software Craftsmanship and Agile Code Games[presentation]
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Musicians and athletes spend most of their time practicing—not performing. If as software developers we just learn on our job and don’t practice, we will continue to make mistakes on code meant for customers. We must improve the quality of our skills which will, in turn, improve the... |
Mike Clement, Greater Sum
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Impersonal Leadership Is Dead: Be Courageous and Connect[presentation]
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Your people make your company worth working for and can propel it to greatness. Do you know the people you work with—their learning styles, what makes them extraordinary, their real motivation? The answers are critical to everyone’s success, making the difference between an alliance of... |
Christopher Logan, RoZetta Technology
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Agile and DevOps Transformations in Large Organizations[presentation]
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Many large scale organizations experience significant challenges as they pursue agile and DevOps transformations. They embark on adopting agile practices yet fail to reap the benefits of continuous release and delivery. Siraj Berhan explores common challenges—people, processes, technology.... |
Siraj Berhan, Royal Bank of Canada
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Data-Driven Software Engineering for Agile Teams[presentation]
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Remember the old days when software engineering teams used to tune software until it passed quality gates, gave golden bits to marketing, and finally threw a big release party? The world was simple, and writing code that worked according to a specification was enough to be a star... |
Viktor Veis, Microsoft
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Managing Risk in Agile Development: It Isn’t Magic[presentation]
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Has the adoption of agile techniques magically erased risk from software projects? When we change the project and product environment by adopting agile, have we tricked ourselves into thinking that risk has been abolished—when it hasn’t? Agile risk management is a continuous process that... |
Thomas Cagley Jr, DCG
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Fostering Long-Term Test Automation Success[presentation]
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In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity. How can we possibly keep up with software delivery’s explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage, keeping the reins on costs, and reducing... |
Carl Nagle, SAS Institute, Inc.
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Getting the Most Value from Feedback Systems: Daily, Every Sprint, and Every Release [presentation]
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Agile methods are empirical. You must inspect and adapt to make agile work. This requires using effective feedback systems which are vital to your success. Agile teams often suffer from agile feedback systems that are dysfunctional—non-existent, delayed, or no learning from feedback. |
Satish Thatte, VersionOne
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Rejuvenate Your Scrum Implementation: From Good to Great[presentation]
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After implementing Scrum, some organizations slowly stray away from the basics that made their implementation successful. They loosen up Scrum practices, lose sight of core roles and responsibilities, and succumb to their muscle memory of how things were done before. Teams have little... |
Denise Dantzler, Werner Enterprises
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Test Data Management: A Healthcare Industry Case Study[presentation]
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As IT systems increase in both scale and complexity, delivering quality applications becomes more challenging. In addition to creating and executing test scenarios, testers need to create and maintain the test data that enables test execution. Test data management (TDM) creates and... |
Jatinder Singh, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Shaheer Mohammed, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
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Continuous Integration Is for Everyone—Especially DevOps[presentation]
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Continuous delivery and deployment are taking center stage in the DevOps conversations. Neither continuous delivery nor deployment are easy to jump into, and both make a lot of assumptions about the applications being released. Continuous integration (CI), however, is for everyone who... |
Chris Riley, Sauce Labs
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Your Agile Prioritization Process Is Probably Wrong[presentation]
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Of course we know what customers want, right? Product owners have the roadmap. Sales teams know what sells. Support talks to customers every day. So if we really know what our customers want, why is 65 percent of all software functionality rarely or never used? Why aren’t our customers... |
Tom Gimpel, SofterWare, Inc
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Now That We're Agile, What's a Manager to Do?[presentation]
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We teach managers to foster agility by encouraging their teams to self-organize, stop assigning work, and telling them how to do it. Since the Product Owner defines the what and the team defines the how, what’s left for managers to do? Managers need to become servant leaders. It’s a key... |
David Grabel, Grabel Consulting Services, LLC, and Shyam Kumar, UST-Global
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Passion: What Software Teams and Executives Can Learn from Eco-Pirates[presentation]
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On the Animal Planet TV series Whale Wars, a fleet of boats off the coast of Japan ambush migrating dolphins at sea and drive them into a cove, where they’re captured for the theme park industry or killed for food. Their story is featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove. Having... |
Michael Mah, QSM Associates, Inc.
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