Conference Presentations

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 Agile PMO: Right Work, Right Time, Right People

One of the core functions of a PMO is to help an organization standardize efficient processes to select and execute strategic projects. Unfortunately, many PMOs are finding themselves struggling to justify their own existence. In a recent survey, more than half of the respondents reported...
Heather Fleming, Gilt Groupe, and Justin Riservato, Gilt Groupe
Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014: Seven Deadly Habits of Ineffective Software Managers
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As if releasing a quality software project on time were not difficult enough, poor management of planning, people, and process issues can be deadly to a project. Presenting a series of anti-pattern case studies, Ken Whitaker describes the most common deadly habits—along with ways to avoid...
Ken Whitaker, Leading Software Maniacs
Avoiding Over Design and Under Design
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The question of how much design to do up-front on a project is an engaging conundrum. Too much design often results in excess complexity and wasted effort. Too little design results in a poor architecture or insufficient system structures which require expensive rework and hurt more in the...
Al Shalloway, Net Objectives
STARCANADA 2014: When Testers Feel Left Out in the Cold
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When you're responsible for testing, it's almost a given that you will find yourself in a situation in which you feel alone and out in the cold. Management commitment for testing might...
Hans Buwalda, LogiGear
ADC-BSC EAST 2013 Keynote: Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project’s Future
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Is a project’s fate preordained? Does a project’s past suggest its likely future? Can anything be done to influence that future when the current signs aren’t promising? Payson Hall has participated in and reviewed many projects during his thirty-year career in software development.
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group Inc.
Program Management: Collaborating across the Organization
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To be most effective when managing a large program, the component projects should limit their batch size, create networks of people, and report status in a way that works for the entire program. For those of you who are not quite ready for agile, Johanna Rothman explains how to use staged...
Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group Inc.
How Experian Revolutionized Product Strategy and Management with Big Data
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Agile discussions often focus on stories, backlogs, development, and testing. At Experian they also brought product strategy management and strategy into the agile fold to ensure their teams were in lock-step with customer requirements and priorities. That resulted in the delivery of...
Jeff Hassemer, Experian
Lessons from Busting Organizational Silos
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We’ve all heard of the evils that can result from organizational silos—bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and the “us vs. them” mentality. Perhaps you’ve been a victim. As Tricia Broderick repeatedly experienced value from busting individual project team silos, she naturally wanted to expand her...
Tricia Broderick, Santeon Group
Demystifying the Role of Product Owner
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Have you ever wondered what makes a good Product Owner? It’s a broad and deep role that is often filled with a hodgepodge of differently skilled individuals. Many organizations struggle to understand its importance as they scale their agile transformations. What about exceptional...
Bob Galen, Velocity Partners

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