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A UX Strategy for Persona Research[presentation]
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Research into your users’ personas can provide deep insights into their needs and validate your product design. This research doesn’t have to take months; it can often be done in two weeks, during sprint 0. Unfortunately, many companies using agile methods don’t invest in personas and a... |
Nellie LeMonier, Perforce Software, Inc.
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Seeking the Agile Path through Database Design[presentation]
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Being first to market or meeting rapidly changing customer demands compels development teams to build systems while requirements are still being discovered. Developing a relational database design ahead of its requirements can paint you into a corner—with a product that suffers from... |
Jonathan Wiggs, Netmotion Wireless, Inc.
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An Interview with Dean Leffingwell: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest trends and approaches for anyone investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Dean Leffingwell, Leffingwell LLC
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Keynote: Know the Way, Show the Way, Go the Way: Scaling Agile Development[presentation]
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Tired of the claims that Scrum, XP, and kanban don’t scale beyond a few teams? Overwhelmed by management’s resistance to the organizational changes needed to really follow agile principles? Concerned with the lack of proven practices required to scale agile methods to the next level? |
Dean Leffingwell, Leffingwell LLC
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Keynote: Lean Software Delivery: Synchronizing Cadence with Context[presentation] 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. However, for the majority of software development organizations, naïve agile transformations that don’t look beyond the needs... |
Mik Kersten, Tasktop
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Mobile Application Testing: Challenges and Best Practices[presentation]
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With the rapid rise of mobile devices including smartphones and tablets, many organizations are rolling out mobile apps to extend the reach of their traditional web applications. Although the methodology for mobile application testing is fundamentally the same as that of traditional web... |
Jimmy Xu, CGI
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Lean Management: Lessons from the Field[presentation]
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Agile development methods such as Scrum, XP, and kanban have achieved notable success in improving speed to value, reducing waste, and raising customer and team satisfaction. Successful practitioners worldwide have cut development times, improved product quality, and reduced development cost. |
Sanjiv Augustine, LitheSpeed
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Non-Pathological Software Metrics[presentation]
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As semi-scientific software professionals, we like the idea of measuring our work. In some cases, our bosses like the idea much more than we do. Yet, meaningful software development metrics are notoriously challenging to define, and many people have given up trying because metrics often... |
Stephen Frein, Comcast
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An Interview with Michael Mah: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series[presentation]
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Committed to covering the latest trends and approaches for anyone investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Michael Mah, QSM Associates Inc.
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The Evolution of Agile: Dealing with the Growing Pains[presentation]
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Agile development has evolved into a lifecycle that not only affects the IT department but the overall business as well. Forward-thinking enterprises recognize this and benefit from the software efficiency that agile development delivers. Through real-world examples, Jonathan Thorpe... |
Jonathan Thorpe, Serena Software
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The Importance of Software Safety[article] Software impacts our world in many important ways. Almost everything that we touch, from the beginning to the end of our day, relies upon software. Bob Aiello explains the importance of software safety for configuration managers. Remember, software safety requires that systems be built and configured in a secure and reliable way. |
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The Technology behind Rich Internet Applications[article] Alejandro Felipe writes on the technology behind rich internet applications (RIA) in service-oriented architecture (SOA). With this knowledge, you'll be better able to build and support web applications using technologies such as Ajax and JavaScript and development frameworks, including BackBone Router and Model View Controller (MVC). |
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How to Test Your Website on Multiple Browsers: Four Solutions Compared[article] Robbie Bridgewater writes on the difficulty in finding bugs during testing since no single computer can run all of the major browsers—not to mention the added challenge of testing various mobile operating systems. In this article, Robbie compares four possible solutions to this dilemma. |
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STAREAST 2013 Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes [presentation]
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Lightning Talks are a popular part of the STAR conferences. Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute talks by different speakers within one presentation period and are an opportunity for speakers to deliver their single biggest bang-for-the-buck idea in a rapid-fire presentation. |
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
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STAREAST 2013: Finding the Real Value in Load Testing[presentation]
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Organizations spend countless hours in load testing exercises with the intent of finding and fixing system bottlenecks to improve overall performance. But how much time is spent in the process of preparing and executing the test versus finding and fixing real issues. |
Duane Dorch, Compuware
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