agile

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Governing Agile Teams: Disciplined Strategies to Increase Agile Effectiveness
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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
An Interview with Linda Rising: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series
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Committed to covering the latest trends and approaches for anyone investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. 
Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
Scaling Your Tests: Continued Change Without Fear
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Agile teams move faster when cycle times are short and code deployments are frequent. To release often, a robust suite of automated tests is a must-have. Tests are the safety net that enables fearless change. Throughout a software system's lifespan, its test suite grows, evolves, and decays.
Ryan Scott, Rally Software Development
The Evolution of Agile: Dealing with the Growing Pains
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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
Keynote: Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way: Scaling Agile Development
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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
Seeking the Agile Path through Database Design
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Being first to market or meeting rapidly changing customer demands compels development teams to build systems while requirements are still being discovered. Developing a relational database design ahead of its requirements can paint you into a corner—with a product that suffers from...
Jonathan Wiggs, Netmotion Wireless, Inc.
An Interview with Jim McCarthy: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series
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Committed to covering the latest trends and approaches for anyone investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. 
Jim McCarthy, McCarthy Technologies Inc.
Agile Requirements Is Not an Oxymoron
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Misconceptions abound about the way requirements fit—or don’t fit—into agile projects. Is “agile requirements” an oxymoron—two contradictory terms joined together? How is it possible for requirements to be agile? Do agile projects even need requirements? In reality, requirements are...
Paul Reed, EBG Consulting
Agile and CMMI: Yes, They Can Work Together
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There is a common misconception that agile and CMMI cannot work together. CMMI is viewed as a documentation heavy, slow, process-driven model—the polar opposite of agile principles. The cost of documentation for an appraisal is viewed as another drawback. Join Ed Weller to see why...
Ed Weller, Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC
Keynote: Magnificence: Culture Hacking, the Common Platform, and the Coming Golden Era
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A culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that both describes and shapes a group. The unique challenges of creating software have demanded totally new types...
Jim McCarthy, McCarthy Technologies Inc.

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