Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps Conference East 2015

PRESENTATIONS

Thieves of Agile Adoption: Approaches to Avoid

Businesses are hit by thieves from all angles. Thieves often go unnoticed until something is missing. If you are adopting agile, you may have thieves stealing from your transformation right now. Every organization is different, but some thieves of agile adoption are well-known. Francie Van...
Francie Van Wirkus
Things That Go Bump: Product Risk Assessment in Agile

“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road” (Stephen Hawking). As agile teams, we know that we can’t know everything, so we shouldn’t waste time thinking about that which we don’t know and...
Annette Head, Principal Financial Group
Well Begun Is Half Done: Creating Dynamic and Living Team Charters

Aristotle once stated, “Well begun is half done.” However, many agile initiatives suffer from a feeble launch. So how can we increase the likelihood of success for a team or organization? By developing a sound team charter. Beginning with the end in mind, we use retrospective techniques to...
Linda Cook, Project Cooks, LLC, and Chris Espy, SolutionsIQ
You Don't Have All the Answers: So Stop Giving Advice and Start Asking Questions

Many of us are raised to recognize the value of experts. When we work in a technical arena, seeing our own value as experts is re-enforced. We often are rewarded or promoted based on our knowledge. Our tendency is to want to solve problems by giving our colleagues, teams, and mentees sound...
Judith Mills, Judith Mills LLC
Your Agile Prioritization Process Is Probably Wrong

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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