Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps Conference West 2017

PRESENTATIONS

Adapting Your Organization and Teams for Agile

As more and more companies and teams transform to agile, the challenges become more diverse and affect how teams execute and the personal careers/ambitions of team members. Agile transformation poses challenges that span product architectures, products modularization, execution velocity...
Nir Szilagyi
Agile at the Intersection of Mobile, Cloud, and the Internet of Things

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
Agile Leadership Strategies: Winning the War on Complexity

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
Agile Release Planning: The Middle Time Frame

Lean and agile development methods, which emphasize planning on five different levels, can generate amazing high-level vision and long-term plans to achieve business goals. These methods also can produce plans for lower-level detailed iteration and daily planning. Yet when it comes to...
Sarah Harper
Agile Test Automation for Data-Centric Applications

Test automation is one of several key technical enablement practices that allow teams to be more successful in their agile journey. Although there are many test practices and automation tools available for software development teams to leverage, few are targeted to data-related development...
Lynn Winterboer and Cher Fox
Application Resiliency: Keys to Planning for IoT and the Cloud

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
Architectural Patterns for an Efficient Delivery Pipeline

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
Continuous Testing in DevOps

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
Demystifying DevOps Adoption

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
DevOps and Regulatory Compliance—Like Oil and Water or Peanut Butter and Jelly?

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

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