Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014

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Service Virtualization: Speed Up Delivery and Improve Quality “We could not test this because…” Every technology professional has experienced issues during system testing when unit testing was overlooked or cut short. Every project team has hit roadblocks during system testing when dependent systems or complicated data have been unavailable...	Anne Hungate, DIRECTV, and Robb Kelman, DIRECTV
Seven Key Metrics to Improve Agile Performance It’s been said: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. For most agile teams burndown charts and some type of velocity measurement are all they are doing. However, with just a few more metrics, you can gain substantial insight into how teams are performing and identify improvement...	Andrew Graves, InterContinental Hotels Group
Seven Principles of Cross-Continent, Distributed Development Many teams practice agile development as an integral part of their organization with the benefits of collocation and local decision making. However, it is increasingly more common to develop code across continents, either in distributed organizations or with the help of offshore...	Igor Gejdos, Roche Diagnostics
Shifting Left: The Evolution of Test Automation As the software development lifecycle shifts toward agile and lean methodologies, quality in every build becomes critical. Continuous integration allows development teams to receive immediate feedback on their code, creating more efficiency and higher quality...	Jennifer Bonine, tap\|QA, Inc., and Michael Faulise, tap \| QA
Simplify Project and Portfolio Planning with “Real Options” Do you work in an organization that spends too much time budgeting, road mapping, and planning their project roadmap or portfolio? Do you ever feel like all this effort is pointless and wasteful? Do you think perhaps there might be a simpler, more pragmatic way? If so, this session is for...	Matt Barcomb, DevJam, and David Hussman, DevJam
Software Managers: Their Place in Agile No more managers! No more hierarchy! A truly self organizing, self-running team! These phrases strike fear into managers almost as much as: We are moving to agile. As successful companies like Zappos, GitHub, and Treehouse discard managers from their teams, other software...	Brian Sobus, Teradata
Software Testing’s Future—According to Lee Copeland The original IEEE 829 Test Documentation standard is thirty years old this year. Boris Beizer’s first book on software testing, Software Testing Techniques, also passed thirty. Testing Computer Software, the best-selling book on software testing, is more than twenty five. During the past...	Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Strategies for Mobile Web Application Testing Mobile web testing is still a widely unexplored territory—with no standardized tools or testing processes—where testers often struggle due to lack of guidance and resources. With mobile devices, tools, operating systems, and web technologies rapidly evolving, testers must adapt their...	Raj Subramanian, Progressive Insurance
Test Automation in Agile: A Successful Implementation Many teams feel that they are forced to make an either/or decision when it comes to investing time to automate tests versus executing them manually. Sometimes a “silver bullet” tool is purchased, and testers are forced to use it when there may be a better option; other times unskilled team...	Melissa Tondi, Denver Automation and Quality Engineering
The Agile PMO: Right Work, Right Time, Right People One of the core functions of a PMO is to help an organization standardize efficient processes to select and execute strategic projects. Unfortunately, many PMOs are finding themselves struggling to justify their own existence. In a recent survey, more than half of the respondents reported...	Heather Fleming, Gilt Groupe, and Justin Riservato, Gilt Groupe

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