Conference Presentations

Test Automation Strategies and Frameworks: What Should Your Team Do?
Slideshow

Agile practices have done a magnificent job of speeding up the software development process. Unfortunately, simply applying agile practices to testing isn't enough to keep testers at the same pace. Test automation is necessary to support agile delivery. Max Saperstone explores popular test...
Gene Gotimer, Coveros, Inc.
Inside the Mind of the 21st Century Customer
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Testers frequently say that they are the voice of the customer or the customer advocate for their organization’s products. In some situations this can be a helpful mindset, but no matter how hard he tries, a software tester is not the customer. In fact, there is no one better suited to...
Alan Page, Microsoft
Building Agile Teams in a Global Environment
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Many organizations use teams spread worldwide to develop valuable business applications. These organizations expect the teams to work as one harmonious unit without missing a beat—or should we say, a story point. A few organizations do it well; many not so well. Betsy Kauffman and Oscar...
Betsy Kauffman, Agile Pi and Oscar Rodriquez, Agile Pi
Seven Principles of Cross-Continent, Distributed Development
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Many teams practice agile development as an integral part of their organization with the benefits of collocation and local decision making. However, it is increasingly more common to develop code across continents, either in distributed organizations or with the help of offshore...
Igor Gejdos, Roche Diagnostics
Software Managers: Their Place in Agile
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No more managers! No more hierarchy! A truly self organizing, self-running team! These phrases strike fear into managers almost as much as: We are moving to agile. As successful companies like Zappos, GitHub, and Treehouse discard managers from their teams, other software...
Brian Sobus, Teradata
Servant Leadership: It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
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Ah, the sounds of feathers being ruffled! Tricia Broderick believes that servant leadership is not all that it’s cracked up to be. She wants and expects more from leaders then just being servants who act only when asked. Until now, a common (and easy) coaching style has been to transform...
Tricia Broderick, Pearson
Toward a Well-Run, Cross-Functional, High-Performance Team
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Behind every successful delivery to a customer, there is a well-run, cross-functional team. They trust each other; they work well together. Yet every team, agile or not, faces the challenges of building such a team. And, despite their best efforts, many teams fail in this attempt, never...
Fuming Ye, Pitney Bowes
Your Team’s Not Agile If You’re Not Doing Agile Testing
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Many organizations adopt agile software development processes, yet they do not adopt agile testing processes. Then they fall into the trap of having development sprints that are just a set of mini-waterfall cycles. Some software developers still feel they can work more quickly if they let...
Jeanne Schmidt, Rural Sourcing, Inc.
Leading Internationally-Distributed Test Teams
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Are you employing your offshore test team to its best advantage—gaining the cost savings and test coverage you expected? Unless correct management methodologies are in place, you will lose rather than gain both time and money with internationally-distributed testers. If you are...
Dennis Pikora, Symantec
Video: Producing Product Developers
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Many teams and organizations have found agile methods help them produce more. Where critical thinking is alive, a more important question arises: Are we producing the right thing? Even though agile tools and processes have helped produce more, they often fail to help us produce the right...
David Hussman, DevJam

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