Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2013

PRESENTATIONS

A Mind-Blowing Exploration on How to Make Better Decisions

Have you ever watched a medical drama with scenes featuring doctors making split second, life-or-death decisions? As software professional, there may be less at stake when it comes to your decisions, yet you often need to act under time pressure, limited information, and conditions of...
Iain McCowatt, Barclays
A Year of “Testing” the Cloud for Development and Test

Jim Trentadue describes the first year his organization used the cloud for its non-production needs: development, testing, training, and production support. Jim begins by describing the components of a cloud environment and how it differs from a traditional physical server structure.
Jim Trentadue, New York Life
ADC-BSC EAST 2013 Keynote: Connecting with Customers

Even today, to the detriment of agile success, most organizational cultures remain delivery date-driven—resulting in delivery teams that are not focused on creating value for the customer. So how can we redirect stakeholders, the business, and the project team to concentrate on delivering...
Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova
ADC-BSC EAST 2013 Keynote: Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project’s Future

Is a project’s fate preordained? Does a project’s past suggest its likely future? Can anything be done to influence that future when the current signs aren’t promising? Payson Hall has participated in and reviewed many projects during his thirty-year career in software development.
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group Inc.
ADC-BSC EAST 2013 Keynote: Worse Is Better—For Better or for Worse

More than two decades ago, Richard P. Gabriel proposed the idea that “Worse Is Better” to explain why some things that are designed to be pure and perfect are eclipsed by solutions that are compromised and imperfect. This is not simply an observation that things should be better but are...
Kevlin Henney, Independent Consultant
Adopt Before You Adapt: Learning Principles through Practice

Although agile principles sound simple, adopting agile is often extremely difficult. Some teams adopting agile start by making changes and tweaks to prescribed processes—bad! Steve Berczuk explains how following the recommended practices of your chosen agile method for a time will help...
Steve Berczuk, Fitbit Inc.
Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2013: Avoiding Overdesign and Underdesign

The question of how much design to do up-front on a project is an engaging one.  Too much design often results in overkill, complexity, and wasted effort. Too little design results in insufficient system structures that require later rework, additional complexity, and wasted effort.
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
Agile Development Conference East 2013: The Kanban Pizza Game: Maximize Profit by Managing Flow

The Kanban Pizza Game is a hands-on simulation designed to teach the core elements of a kanban system—visualize the workflow, limit your work-in-process (WIP), manage flow, make process policies explicit, and improve collaboratively. Join Brad Swanson as the proprietor of your very own...
Brad Swanson, agile42
Agile Success with Scrum: It’s All about the People

Is it possible to be doing everything Scrum says to do and still fail horribly? Unfortunately, the answer is yes—and teams do it every day. To many, Scrum means concentrating on the meetings and artifacts, and making sure the roles all do their jobs. Bob Hartman and Michael Vizdos explore...
Bob Hartman, Agile For All
An Automation Culture: The Key to Agile Success

For organizations developing large-scale applications, transitioning to agile is challenging enough. But if your organization has not yet adopted an automation culture, brace yourself for a big surprise because automation is essential to agile success. From the safety nets provided by...
Geoff Meyer, Dell, Inc.

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