agile

Conference Presentations

Agile + DevOps East Open Mic: Coaching Up in Your Organization
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The term “coaching up” traditionally refers to communication with a supervisor or person above you in the organizational chart.

Jen Wright
Agile + DevOps East Continuous Delivery Dojo: From Doing Agile to Being Agile
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State Farm adopted an innovative approach to a common problem many organizations face with agile transformation: How do you influence, nurture, and support a whole scale culture of agility? How do you move from doing agile to being agile? 

Lisa Maurer
Agile + DevOps East Wabi-Sabi Your DevSecOps
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The ability of DevSecOps to produce secure code requires the merging of two very different cultures: AppSec and DevOps.

Brittany Greenfield
Agile + DevOps East What “Good” Looks Like: The 4 Quadrants of Product Ownership
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The product owner role was introduced in Scrum in 1993, so the role has been around for more than twenty-five years. Yet we still struggle with the nature of it. Is it simple or complex? Is it inward- or outward-facing? It is about backlogs and stories, or something more?

Bob Galen
Agile + DevOps East Journey without Fear: Leading Your Teams to High Performance
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Psychological safety has been identified by Google’s Project Aristotle as a top condition for creating high-performing teams. Yet many organizations are affected by fear in the workplace. 

Dana Pylayeva
Agile + DevOps East DevOps for the Agile Practitioner
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As an agile coach, ScrumMaster, or product owner, you interact with technical teams every day, even though you may not have a technical background yourself. 

Lee Eason
STARCANADA 2019 Reality Driven Testing in Agile Projects
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Many agile teams rework previously deployed stories, even after plenty of in-sprint testing. Well groomed, refined, stories framed with typical, alternate and error scenarios, gracefully described in well formed gherkin, continue to encounter all sorts of bugs.

Robert Sabourin
STARCANADA 2019 Safety-Critical Software the Quality Agilist’s Way
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Delivering hundreds of laser beams to brain tumors with sub-millimeter precision requires accurate, safe, and effective software that is developed and tested carefully and meticulously. But to be competitive in the market and responsive to customer needs you’ve got to be fast.

Roy Tuason
Agile DevOps West Get Your Poker Face On: How to Effectively Use Planning Poker to Slay Project Estimations
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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
Agile DevOps West See the Forest, Not Just the Trees: Improving Quality and Flow in a Continuous Delivery World
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There are many companies today implementing agile and DevOps practices, usually enabled by a microservices architecture. Most of them are focused on continuously delivering value to their customers within the boundary of a time-bound sprint. 

Ashwin Desai

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