Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West 2013

PRESENTATIONS

The Evolution of Agile: Dealing with the Growing Pains

Agile development has evolved into a lifecycle that not only affects the IT department but the overall business as well. Forward-thinking enterprises recognize this and benefit from the software efficiency that agile development delivers. Through real-world examples, Jonathan Thorpe...
Jonathan Thorpe, Serena Software
The Five Facets of an Agile Organization

Is agile—or lean, kanban, lean startup, etc.—starting to follow the path of other management buzzwords in your organization? Is it losing steam, now resembling only a minor change from the old ways? Have you compromised to "make agile work in our organization?” 
George Schlitz, BigVisible Solutions
The Four Dimensions of Performance Improvement

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a team dealt with unrealistic deadlines, impossible stakeholders, and demotivated testers, who had  no time to do things smarter and faster, just hammering away on the project “hamster wheel.” Then one day, as if heaven sent, a magical, but...
Marisa Müller, Micro to Mainframe (Pty) Ltd.
The Next Frontier of Agile: Journey to Continuous Delivery

Organizations are under pressure to release faster with higher quality, while business and technology environments are increasingly becoming more and more complex. How can you deploy great products quickly in such a challenging environment? Intuit, maker of TurboTax, is solving this...
Nicole Sweeney, Intuit & Martin Franklin, Intuit
Transform Your Agile Test Process to Ship Fast with High Quality

Until 2009, the Atlassian JIRA team shipped a major release of its software every nine to twelve months. Everything was tested—every story and every bug fix—and everything still contained serious bugs. Story development moved quickly, but after the feature-complete date, several...
Penny Wyatt, Atlassian
Trends in Big Data Testing

The Big Data has three unique characteristics—Volume, Velocity, and Variety. Today’s big data applications are growing dramatically. We must process data ever more quickly so we can respond to events as they happen, and that data is arriving from an ever wider array of channels...
Stefano Rizzo, Polarion Software
Turbocharge Your Team’s Productivity: Increase Your Ability to Deliver

Many factors impact a team’s productivity. Some are well understood—collocation, size, common purpose. Others are less well known including social capital—the value of social networking. Rob Maher describes techniques that have been successfully used within organizations to enhance team...
Rob Maher, Rob Maher Consulting
Unlocking Innovation in Your Organization

According to a recent study, more than 60 percent of CEOs cite the need to discover innovative ways of managing their organization’s structure, finances, people, and strategies as their top priority. In order to compete in the 21st century, organizations must rethink how they function...
Derek Neighbors, Integrum Technologies

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