Conference Presentations

The Business Analyst Role on Agile Projects
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Agile—a single word that sparked unprecedented confusion in the technology world. When it went agile, did your organization throw out your business analyst team? Have they banned all requirements documentation? Are teams struggling to see the big picture? Brian Watson has encountered...
Brian Watson, VersionOne
Business Analysis: From Interviews through Implementation
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The keys to delivering better software lie in understanding what customers want―even when they are unable to articulate what they want―and being able to create a system that will improve the end users’ work. This is why your starting point should be understanding the differing, and...
Barry Harvey, Florida Virtual Campus
Mobile Dev + Test 2015: Mobile Test Automation with Big Data Analytics
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Development and test organizations face major challenges when building robust automated tests around their mobile applications. With limited testing resources and increasingly more complex projects, stakeholders worry about the risk and quality of mobile products. So how do you plan a...
Tarun Bhatia, Microsoft
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
The Magic of Assumptions
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There are no “facts” about the future. Everything we think we know about tomorrow is based on what we think we know about the world today and our assumptions of where that will likely lead. Through a process of trial and error successful project managers, software developers, testers, and...
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group, Inc.
Leaping over the Boundaries of Boundary Value Analysis
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Many books, articles, classes, and conference presentations tout equivalence class partitioning and boundary value analysis as core testing techniques. Yet many discussions of these...
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
Building a Testing Center of Excellence: Experiences, Insights, and Failures
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As organizations mature in their testing processes, the perennial quest to achieve ultimate excellence has led many to establish a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE). Many of these...
Krishna Iyer, Zen Test Labs and Mukesh Mulchandani, Zen Test Labs
Better Software Conference East 2013: Data Collection and Analysis for Better Requirements
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According to studies, 64 percent of features in systems are rarely—or never—used. How does this happen? Today, the work of eliciting the customers' true needs, which often remains elusive, can be enhanced using data-driven requirements techniques. Brandon Carlson describes why traditional...
Brandon Carlson, Lean TECHniques, Inc.
STARWEST 2013: Mobile Test Automation with Big Data Analytics
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Organizations with a mobile presence today face a major challenge of building robust automated tests around their mobile applications. However, organizations often have limited testing resources for these increasingly complex projects, and stakeholders worry about the quality of the product.
Tarun Bhatia, Microsoft
STARCANADA 2013: Quantifying the Value of Static Analysis
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During the past ten years, static analysis tools have become a vital part of software development for many organizations. However, the question arises, “Can we quantify the benefits of static analysis?” William Oliver presents the results of a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study...
William Oliver, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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