agile

Conference Presentations

Agile Testing: It’s a Team Sport
Slideshow

Who is responsible for testing on agile teams? The answer is “Everybody”—and yet this is rarely the case. Often the testers write their test cases in isolation and execute them after development is finished. Developers write their code without talking to the testers except to understand...
Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan, LeanDog
An Interview with Michael Mah: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series
Video

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. 
Michael Mah, QSM Associates Inc.
Building a Team Backlog: The Power of Retrospectives
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“Inspect and adapt” is one of the basic tenets of continuous improvement, and agility in general. Holding retrospectives is one of the core processes that allows teams to look back and reflect on their progress. However, over time, teams may focus only on the product work and lose interest...
Kanchan Khera, McKinsey & Company & Bhuwan Lodha, McKinsey & Company
Transform Your Agile Test Process to Ship Fast with High Quality
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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
Keynote: Lean Software Delivery: Synchronizing Cadence with Context
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Daily, we are told that adopting agile, PaaS, DevOps, crowdsourced testing, or any of the myriad of current buzzwords will help us deliver better software faster.
Mik Kersten, Tasktop
Agile Redefines Global Economics: What Recent Data Reveals
Slideshow

Kent Beck, inventor of eXtreme Programming, defined agile success as delivering more useful functionality with fewer defects. Against that definition, early research revealed mixed success. Many organizations did not know how to measure and thus could not have “fact-based” conversations...
Michael Mah, QSM Associates Inc.
It’s Agile, Not Fragile
Video

The time is now to rethink the way you and your teams build, test and deliver applications. In this session, we will share the insights, best practices and software innovation to address the challenge of rapid delivery of today’s user-centric applications. 
Kelly Emo and Michael Cooper, HP
STARCANADA 2013: The Tester's Role in Agile Planning
Slideshow

If testers sit passively through agile planning, important testing activities will be missed or glossed over. Testing late in the sprint becomes a bottleneck, quickly diminishing the advantages of agile development. However, testers can actively advocate for customers’ concerns while...
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
STARCANADA 2013 Keynote: Lighting Strikes the Keynotes
Video

Lightning Talks are a popular part of the STAR conferences. Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period and are an opportunity for speakers to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation.
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
An Agile Test Automation Strategy for Everyone

Most systems are not designed to make test automation easy! Fortunately, the whole-team approach, prescribed by most agile methodologies, gives us an opportunity to break out of this rut. Gerard Meszaros describes the essential elements of practical and proven agile test automation strategy.
Gerard Meszaros, Independent Consultant

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