Agile + DevOps West 2019

PRESENTATIONS

DevOpsing Your Greenfield: Cultivating New Growth

Your project sponsor presents a golden opportunity with a brand-new project, saying, "I want to do some DevOps on our new agile project!"

Richard Mills

Distributed Scrum Teams Whack-a-Mole:
 Creative Solutions to 
Common Obstacles

Taking a newly formed distributed Scrum team from mediocre to high-performing has its share of challenges, including differences in language, culture, and time zones; a misunderstanding of Scrum; and the "us versus them" mentality.

Kimberly Andrikaitis

Diversity without Disclosure: Rethinking Our Norms

Organizational diversity isn't just about the attributes we can see. Every team has members with a near-infinite spectrum of needs, some of which we know about and a lot more we probably don't (and might never).

Cheryl Hammond

Engaging the Other Half of the Room

Do you often attend meetings or events where participation is left to only half the room, while the others sit quietly, waiting for it to be over?

Todd Miller

Exhaustion Is Not a Status Symbol

We set out to transform the world of work with agile, yet we've heard the Scrum sprint cycle described as a “hamster wheel,” an endless conveyor belt of backlog and sprint reviews that developers cannot escape. 

Melissa Boggs

Fantastic Outcomes and How to Measure Them

Do your metrics track what matters most to your organization, or do they merely quantify your adherence to a process? Is that process a good proxy for real results? In your environment?

Cheryl Hammond

Follow the Money: How to Talk to Executives about Agile

When agile transformations fail, many agilists blame their executives for not caring about or understanding agile. However, few people focus on the different languages that IT and business people speak, and the different outcomes that both sides desire.

Steven Granese

Get Your Poker Face On: How to Effectively Use Planning Poker to Slay Project Estimations

How long will that take? It’s a question we’ve all either asked or been asked, and it can be a challenge to answer accurately. How long will it take to get that feature out the door? How much time would you need to build this kind of software?

Laura Janusek

Getting to Continuous Testing

Max Saperstone tells the story of how a healthcare company striving to get to continuous releases built up their automation to secure confidence in regular releases.

Max Saperstone

Hacks to Becoming a Mindful Agile Tester

Have you ever felt like you've been working on multiple tasks all day long, but at the end of the day when you review your work, you realize you haven’t accomplished anything concrete?

Raj Subrameyer

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