Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West 2013

PRESENTATIONS

Exploding Management Myths

We’ve all heard management “nuggets” such as “make people come to you with solutions, nut just problems,” or “training time is wasted time,” or my favorite, “work smarter.” But how are you supposed to do that, especially if you may not have received any management training, or if your gut...
Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
Find Requirements Defects to Build Better Software

Requirements defects are often the source of the majority of all software defects. Discovering and correcting a defect during testing is typically twenty-five times more expensive than correcting it during the requirements definition phase. Identifying and removing defects early in the...
John Terzakis, Intel
Find Requirements Defects to Build Better Software

Requirements defects are often the source of the majority of all software defects. Discovering and correcting a defect during testing is typically twenty-five times more expensive than correcting it during the requirements definition phase. Identifying and removing defects early in the...
John Terzakis, Intel
Gamification to Solve Real-World Challenges

What can we learn from Angry Birds, which has been downloaded more than one billion times? What makes games engaging and fun? What is the secret that motivates players to mastery, even when they fail 80 percent of the time? What if we could reverse-engineer the principles behind a...
Ram Srinivasan, inRhythm
Governing Agile Teams: Disciplined Strategies to Increase Agile Effectiveness

Many organizations have successfully adopted agile on a subset of their projects, while, at the same time, struggled to do so across entire departments. A common challenge is the need to overhaul the IT governance strategy so that it will work with agile teams. This is a serious issue for...
Scott Ambler, Scott W. Ambler + Associates
How to Jumpstart Enterprise Agile Adoption

Want to get a jumpstart on agile adoption in your organization? Begin by leveraging a roadmap that Intuit has used for rolling out enterprise agile to its business units. While there is no single way to bring enterprise agile into your organization, Alan Padula describes a model that has...
Alan Padula, Intuit
How to Survive the Coming Test Automation Zombie Apocalypse

Test automation is software development. To automate tests well, you have to have brains. Unfortunately, the very brains that make you good at your job also make you highly attractive to zombies. Like all zombies, test automation zombies are brainless, insatiable, and relentless.
Dale Emery, DHE
Hybrid Security Analysis: Bridging the Gap between Inside-Out and Outside-In

With the rising adoption of the cloud and the mobile revolution, software security is more important and complex than ever. The efforts of developers and testers are frequently disconnected, wasting time and reducing effectiveness. Arthur Hicken describes how hybrid security analysis...
Arthur Hicken, Parasoft
Implementing Cloud-Based DevOps for Distributed Agile Projects

Cloud-based development, delivery, and deployment environments are the future of IT operations. Thomas Stiehm shares the hard-learned lessons of setting up and running cloud-based solutions that implement DevOps for geographically distributed agile projects. Thomas describes...
Thomas Stiehm, Coveros, Inc.
Keynote: Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way: Scaling Agile Development

Tired of the claims that Scrum, XP, and kanban don’t scale beyond a few teams? Overwhelmed by management’s resistance to the organizational changes needed to really follow agile principles? Concerned with the lack of proven practices required to scale agile methods to the next level?
Dean Leffingwell, Leffingwell, LLC

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