Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2013

PRESENTATIONS

Power and Empowerment: Understanding the Principles

Managers want teams to be empowered but often don’t want to give up their decision-making authority. Teams want to be empowered but may not know how to act on the power they already have. Executives want to drive engagement and action but see only half-hearted compliance. 
Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates Inc.
Program Management: Collaborating across the Organization

To be most effective when managing a large program, the component projects should limit their batch size, create networks of people, and report status in a way that works for the entire program. For those of you who are not quite ready for agile, Johanna Rothman explains how to use staged...
Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group Inc.
Requirements Elicitation—the Social Media Way

Agile methods have proven their ability to improve project success rates. However, when agile methods are applied to complex projects, we need to further explore the area of effective customer involvement. According to the agile philosophy, the users must be part of the development team.
Stefano Rizzo, Polarion Software
Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar Some More

History repeats itself as people once again become addicted to process. Today’s difficult problems call for a renaissance of agility, drawing on past success as we invent the future. Real value lies in intentional and contextual selection of agile tools instead of the noise associated with...
David Hussman, DevJam
Six Impossible Things before Breakfast

Recently we’ve been seeing a lot of things that just don’t happen in real life. A managing director at Bank of America abandons decades of organizational “best practices” and recreates his organization by letting people organize their own teams. And, if that weren’t unusual enough, the...
Dan North, Dan North & Associates, Ltd. & Kyle Thomson, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Speed Grooming Requirements with SAFe

Want your sprint/iteration planning to take less than fifteen minutes (excluding tasking)? The key is in the story writing we do during backlog grooming. Although the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has little to say about story writing, this "speed grooming" practice makes iteration planning..
André Dhondt, Rally Software Development
Sprinkle on Just Enough Process

How do you know if you have too much process, too little, or just the right amount? If you ignore process completely, unpredictability and chaos can follow. If you define the process to the nth degree and follow it religiously, the work grinds to a halt. Janet Gregory shares her...
Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.
Test (and More) Patterns for Continuous Software Delivery

Top web companies employ continuous delivery of software to build and deploy systems faster and gain a marked competitive advantage. You can do it, too! Andy Singleton shares the patterns for testing in real time that result in more frequent and more reliable releases. He explains why...
Andy Singleton, Assembla
Test-Driven Development for Developers: Plain and Simple

Test-driven development (TDD) is not an easy discipline to establish. However, it provides considerable return on investment for the effort. Rob Myers describes the costs of TDD (the introduction of test-maintenance overhead) and its benefits (greatly improved quality, productivity, and...
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
The Mindset of Managing Uncertainty: The Key to Agile Success

The speed of global change and the advancement of technology will continue to increase the uncertainty in our work. Those with an Agile Mindset can manage uncertainty through continuous value-based discovery; those with a Fixed Mindset try to “freeze” things early to decrease uncertainty.
Ahmed Sidky, SCG Inc.

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