Conference Presentations

Be Fast on Your Feet: Kick Back and WATCH the Board
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Have limited time monitoring complex projects? Need to be fast on your feet during your teams’ standups? It’s a daunting task to keep track of the current work in flight. Steve Dempsen shares a mnemonic technique―WATCH—to help you think of and articulate critical questions to ask on the...
Steve Dempsen, Capital Group
Video: For Maximum Awesome
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An agile hardware and engineering company of 500 collaborators in twenty countries, Team WIKISPEED uses test-first development practices, is run by Scrum teams, and produces road legal cars, micro-houses, and social-good projects. Joe Justice shares how their 100-MPG road car was created...
Joe Justice, Scrum, Inc
Test Process Improvement in Agile
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Current Test Process Improvement (TPI) models have proven to be a mismatch when used to assess testing in an agile context, since it is significantly more difficult to describe how to...
Jeroen Mengerink, Polteq
Meet Big Agile: Testing on Large-Scale Projects
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Are you embarking on a large-scale, globally distributed, multi-team scrum project? Have you already identified the potential testing challenges that lie ahead? Or have you...
Geoff Meyer, Dell, Inc.
Managing Multiple Teams at Scale with Scrum and Lean
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Scrum has become very popular in agile development shops, but most organizations that adopt Scrum run into challenges when they expand beyond a few teams. Ken Paugh believes that you can overcome the challenging patterns of scaling Scrum by focusing on lean-flow.
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
Lean Startup Tools for Scrum Product Owners
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In just a few years, the Lean Startup movement has gained influence by promoting a powerful but simple agile product management toolset—one that complements agile software development approaches such as Scrum and kanban. Arlen Bankston explores the tools and techniques product...
Arlen Bankston, LitheSpeed
Agile Success with Scrum: It’s All about the People
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Is it possible to be doing everything Scrum says to do and still fail horribly? Unfortunately, the answer is yes—and teams do it every day. To many, Scrum means concentrating on the meetings and artifacts, and making sure the roles all do their jobs. Bob Hartman and Michael Vizdos explore...
Bob Hartman, Agile For All
Scrum for Global-Scale Development
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A global development organization—in seven cities on three continents—has developers all using agile practices to develop complex applications. In addition to the common problems faced by distributed teams, they must deal with attrition rates in excess of 50 percent, possible loss of...
James Lynn, SUTO Consulting
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.
Enterprise Lean-Agile: It’s More Than Scrum
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Introducing agile development into a large enterprise is like creating a bubble of sanity in the midst of bedlam. Unless the sanity spreads, the effort is ultimately frustrating, frustrated—and fails. Jeff Marr describes the web of the enterprise ecosystem and presents strategies to build...
Jeff Marr, Cisco

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