Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014
PRESENTATIONS
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The Coming Mobile Wearable World
For better or for worse, like it or not, mobile wearables are already changing our lives. Combined with social media, mobile wearable devices form a new generation of personalized technology that knows us better than our closest friends. How many of your friends know how far you... |
Philip Lew, XBOSoft |
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The Future of Agile: Dilution, Calcification, or Evolution?
The agile revolution began more than a dozen years ago. It was started by a small band of rebels who had radical ideas, shared a common vision, and wanted to change the world by challenging the status quo. Where is that agile revolution today? Has it continued the vision of its founders? |
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan |
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The Magic of Assumptions
There are no “facts” about the future. Everything we think we know about tomorrow is based on what we think we know about the world today and our assumptions of where that will likely lead. Through a process of trial and error successful project managers, software developers, testers, and... |
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group, Inc. |
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The Roots of Agility
What we mean by Agile is becoming less and less clear. Rob Myers shares sixteen years of history and observation, noting the amazingly diverse ideologies and... |
Rob Myers |
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The Survey Says: Testers Spend Their Time Doing...
How can testers contribute more to the success of their project and their company? How can they focus on asking the right questions, improving test planning and design, and finding defects so the business releases a quality product―even though there’s always one more fire to extinguish or... |
Al Wagner, IBM |
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Toward a Well-Run, Cross-Functional, High-Performance Team
Behind every successful delivery to a customer, there is a well-run, cross-functional team. They trust each other; they work well together. Yet every team, agile or not, faces the challenges of building such a team. And, despite their best efforts, many teams fail in this attempt, never... |
Fuming Ye, Pitney Bowes |
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Transforming How We Deliver Value: Agility at Scale
Continuous delivery in software development allows us to deliver incrementally, get quick feedback, and react. A key enabler is the adoption of agile techniques and methods; key inhibitors in the enterprise are size, scale, and complexity. The Rational ALM organization is a typical... |
Amy Silberbauer, IBM |
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We Need It by the End of the Year: What's Your Estimate?
Letting good estimates made by smart people be overwhelmed by the strong desires of powerful people is a cardinal sin of project management. Accurate estimates are the foundation of all critical project decisions regarding staffing, functionality, delivery date, and budget. How do we... |
Tim Lister, Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. |
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Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises—and What to Do about It
Agile works. We get it. You don’t have to sell people on the underlying principles anymore. Even so, many large-scale agile transformations are struggling. Some have failed. Others can’t figure out why things aren't working after multiple attempts. It’s easy to blame the people, the... |
Mike Cottmeyer, LeadingAgile, LLC |
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