Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014

PRESENTATIONS

Making Agile Work—with Eleven Product Owners

Small companies that have been highly successful delivering software often struggle as they grow larger and their software needs to grow with them. They must learn to manage multiple technology platforms and multiple releases while dealing with the associated roadmaps and...
Neal Huffman, Apex Capital Corp.
Managing Technological Diversity: Avoid Boiling the Ocean

Drop everything! We need to regression test the newest browser version. Apple just released a new device and iOS. We need to test our site on IE11 with Windows 8.1. Sound familiar? The number of technologies our software products must be compatible with has grown exponentially, and the...
Katy Douglass, Nationwide Financial
Meeting Strict Documentation Requirements in Agile

Teams in many organizations are still expected to produce and maintain significant amounts of documentation. This is generally the case in Federal, state, and local governments where systems must comply with SOX, HIPPA, NAIC, FDA, or SEC directives. In recent years, Agile has made...
Craeg Strong, Savant Financial Technologies, Inc.
Non-Functional Requirements: Forgotten, Neglected, and Misunderstood

Implementing non-functional requirements is essential to build the right product. Yet teams often struggle with when and how to discover, specify, and test these requirements. Many teams neglect non-functional requirements up front, considering them less important or unrelated to user...
Paul Reed, EBG Consulting
Privacy and Data Security: Minimizing Reputational and Legal Risks

Privacy and data security are hot topics among US state and federal regulators as well as plaintiffs’ lawyers. Companies experiencing data breaches have been fined millions of dollars, paid out millions in settlements, and spent just as much on breach remediation efforts. In the past...
Tatiana Melnik, Melnik Legal, PLCC
Product Management: Optimizing the What to Develop

Most organizations struggle with the processes that define what software they should develop, when to do it, and how it will evolve over time—all parts of the product management role and activities. Because repeatable processes have not been established and organizations cope with...
Ernani Ferrari, Mondo Strategies
Putting Quality in the Driver’s Seat with DevOps and ATDD

Capital One has a highly integrated environment, creating many dependencies for its agile teams. As a result, the teams faced prolonged and increasingly more difficult sprints over time, and did not realize expected improvements in time to market. As Capital One Technology worked through...
Adam Auerbach, Capital One
Requirements Are Requirements—or Maybe Not

Many people talk about requirements. They use identical terms and think they have a common understanding. Yet, one says user stories are requirements; another claims user stories must be combined with requirements; and yet another has a different approach. These “experts” seem unaware of...
Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
Scaling Git for the Enterprise

Due to its ease of use and distributed repository infrastructure, Git is quickly becoming the version control system of choice for many. Getting started takes only a few minutes, and available online tutorials explain Git basics and more advanced features including branching. As easy as...
Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting
Servant Leadership: It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Ah, the sounds of feathers being ruffled! Tricia Broderick believes that servant leadership is not all that it’s cracked up to be. She wants and expects more from leaders then just being servants who act only when asked. Until now, a common (and easy) coaching style has been to transform...
Tricia Broderick, Pearson

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