agile

Conference Presentations

Software Managers: Their Place in Agile
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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
The Future of Agile: Dilution, Calcification, or Evolution?
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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
Meeting Strict Documentation Requirements in Agile
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Teams in many organizations are still expected to produce and maintain significant amounts of documentation. This is generally the case in Federal, state, and local governments where systems must comply with SOX, HIPPA, NAIC, FDA, or SEC directives. In recent years, Agile has made...
Craeg Strong, Savant Financial Technologies, Inc.
Seven Key Metrics to Improve Agile Performance
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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
Agility at Scale: WebSphere’s Agile Transformation
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In today's rapidly changing environment, organizations—both large and small—must quickly respond to shifting market requirements to remain competitive. To be successful, many are adopting agile development and continuous delivery methodologies to deliver software quickly, while keeping...
Susan Hanson, IBM Software Group
Making Agile Work—with Eleven Product Owners
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Small companies that have been highly successful delivering software often struggle as they grow larger and their software needs to grow with them. They must learn to manage multiple technology platforms and multiple releases while dealing with the associated roadmaps and...
Neal Huffman, Apex Capital Corp.
Scaling Git for the Enterprise
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Due to its ease of use and distributed repository infrastructure, Git is quickly becoming the version control system of choice for many. Getting started takes only a few minutes, and available online tutorials explain Git basics and more advanced features including branching. As easy as...
Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting
A Holistic View of Complex Systems and Organizational Change
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One of the most misunderstood concepts in the agile community, complexity is often used to explain why we can’t predict anything or why there are no rules we can follow. Ironically, it is exactly this attitude that allows complexity to work against us. Al Shalloway discusses the true...
Al Shalloway, Net Objectives
How Agile and Project Management Can Coexist
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Through the years—until agile software development took hold, that is—project management provided visibility to stakeholders and helped guide product development. However, as agile has risen to prominence with its de-emphasis on formal project planning, there are gaps that many...
James Hannon, The Bentley Group International
Your Team’s Not Agile If You’re Not Doing Agile Testing
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Many organizations adopt agile software development processes, yet they do not adopt agile testing processes. Then they fall into the trap of having development sprints that are just a set of mini-waterfall cycles. Some software developers still feel they can work more quickly if they let...
Jeanne Schmidt, Rural Sourcing, Inc.

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