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Exploding Management Myths[presentation]
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We’ve all heard management “nuggets” such as “make people come to you with solutions, nut just problems,” or “training time is wasted time,” or my favorite, “work smarter.” But how are you supposed to do that, especially if you may not have received any management training, or if your gut... |
Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
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Agile Redefines Global Economics: What Recent Data Reveals[presentation]
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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.
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An Interview with Steven "Doc" List: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest tools, trends, and issues regarding software development approaches, plan-driven development methods, and process improvement programs, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Steven “Doc” List, Santeon Group
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Keynote: Lean Software Delivery: Synchronizing Cadence with Context[presentation]
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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
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Find Requirements Defects to Build Better Software[presentation]
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Requirements defects are often the source of the majority of all software defects. Discovering and correcting a defect during testing is typically twenty-five times more expensive than correcting it during the requirements definition phase. Identifying and removing defects early in the... |
John Terzakis, Intel
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The Next Frontier of Agile: Journey to Continuous Delivery[presentation]
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Organizations are under pressure to release faster with higher quality, while business and technology environments are increasingly becoming more and more complex. How can you deploy great products quickly in such a challenging environment? Intuit, maker of TurboTax, is solving this... |
Nicole Sweeney, Intuit & Martin Franklin, Intuit
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Trends in Big Data Testing[presentation]
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The Big Data has three unique characteristics—Volume, Velocity, and Variety. Today’s big data applications are growing dramatically. We must process data ever more quickly so we can respond to events as they happen, and that data is arriving from an ever wider array of channels... |
Stefano Rizzo, Polarion Software
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An Interview with Noel Wurst: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest tools, trends, and issues regarding software development approaches, plan-driven development methods, and process improvement programs, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Noel Wurst, Software Quality Engineering
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Transform Your Agile Test Process to Ship Fast with High Quality[presentation]
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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
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Hybrid Security Analysis: Bridging the Gap between Inside-Out and Outside-In[presentation]
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With the rising adoption of the cloud and the mobile revolution, software security is more important and complex than ever. The efforts of developers and testers are frequently disconnected, wasting time and reducing effectiveness. Arthur Hicken describes how hybrid security analysis... |
Arthur Hicken, Parasoft
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The 21st Century Needs Radical Management[presentation]
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Most management methods in use today have been around for more than fifty years. During that time, the work has changed dramatically and so have the types of workers. The new ways of working that have emerged do not align well with the old ways of managing. In the 21st century, management... |
Bob Hartman, Agile For All
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How to Jumpstart Enterprise Agile Adoption[presentation]
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Want to get a jumpstart on agile adoption in your organization? Begin by leveraging a roadmap that Intuit has used for rolling out enterprise agile to its business units. While there is no single way to bring enterprise agile into your organization, Alan Padula describes a model that has... |
Alan Padula, Intuit
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An Interview with George Dinwiddie: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest tools, trends, and issues regarding software development approaches, plan-driven development methods, and process improvement programs, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
George Dinwiddie, iDIA Computing LLC
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Find Requirements Defects to Build Better Software[presentation]
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Requirements defects are often the source of the majority of all software defects. Discovering and correcting a defect during testing is typically twenty-five times more expensive than correcting it during the requirements definition phase. Identifying and removing defects early in the... |
John Terzakis, Intel
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Scrum for Global-Scale Development[presentation]
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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
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