Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps Conference East 2015

PRESENTATIONS

Impersonal Leadership Is Dead: Be Courageous and Connect

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
Improvisation for Agile Skill Development

In today's economy, the Creative Economy, businesses face a disrupted, highly competitive and constantly changing landscape. To thrive in the Creative Economy team members, managers and executives will need to become and remain Agile. Improvisational Theater provides us with a proven model...
Robie Wood, ImprovAgility, and Jody Wood, ImprovAgility
Large-Scale Agile Test Automation Strategies in Practice

After providing an introduction to several key agile testing concepts—including the Automation Triangle and the Test Automation Quadrants—Geoff Meyer discusses approaches to effectively deliver automated testing. Geoff shares practical insights and demonstrates how they were employed...
Geoff Meyer, Dell, Inc.
Lean Entrepreneurship for Software Professionals

Software teams are faced with the prospect of building a product, only to have unexpected shifts in customer demand, changes in the competitive landscape, or swings in the economic climate undermine their plans and turn their product into expensive waste. What is an...
Thomas Vaniotis, Liquidnet
Managing Risk in Agile Development: It Isn’t Magic

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
Now That We're Agile, What's a Manager to Do?

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
Observation: The Key to a Great User Experience

Observation is an important research technique when we are designing solutions to delight users. Some kinds of information that may make the difference between an acceptable solution and a delightful one can only be obtained by observing users in their native environment. Observing users...
Geri Winters, Wyyzzk, Inc.
Our Journey to Agile in the Microsoft Developer Division

This is the story about the Microsoft Developer Division and their two-year journey to agile—from shipping every three years to shipping every three weeks. In the old days, long stabilization phases were part of its DNA. Managers were rewarded for micromanagement. Commitments were made...
Gregg Boer, Microsoft
Overcome the Challenges of Test-Driven Development

Test-driven development (TDD) is a powerful agile methodology that organizations both large and small can leverage to achieve consensus, collaboration, and quality. Based on his organization's experience with implementing TDD and the feedback he has received from other organizations...
Adam Satterfield, Bettercloud
Passion: What Software Teams and Executives Can Learn from Eco-Pirates

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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