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Pay Now or Pay More Every Day: Reduce Technical Debt Now![presentation]
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Is your team missing delivery dates? Is your velocity inconsistent from sprint to sprint? Are customers complaining about defects or the time it takes to add new features? |
Fadi Stephan, Excella Consulting
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Lessons From The Trenches – The Do's And Don'ts of Agile Outsourcing[presentation]
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Due to its ongoing rise in popularity 'Agile' methods are now being used on a wide range of projects, varying in size and complexity. |
Ade Shokya
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The Why and How of Usability and User Experience (UX) Testing[presentation]
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Although usability and user experience may seem synonymous, they are separate and much different concepts. |
Philip Lew, XBOSoft
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Leveraging Core Values for Healthier, More Productive Teams[presentation]
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Although all teams require a healthy level of interaction, high-performing teams' interactions are all based on trust, respect, and shared goals. |
Scott Ross, Omnyx
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Information Obfuscation: Protecting Corporate Data[presentation]
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With corporate data breaches occurring at an ever-alarming rate, all levels of organizations are struggling with ways to protect corporate data assets. |
Michael Jay Freer, Quality Business Intelligence
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Estimating in Software Development: No Silver Bullets Allowed[presentation]
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What do poker, Greek oracles, an Italian mathematician from the Middle Ages, and the path of hurricanes have in common? |
Kent McDonald, Knowledge Bridge Partners
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Better Test Designs to Drive Test Automation Excellence[presentation]
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Test execution automation is often seen as a technical challenge-a matter of applying the right technology, tools, and smart programming talent. |
Hans Buwalda, LogiGear Corporation
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Beyond Processes and Tools: What about Ethics?[presentation]
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Too often we focus only on the latest headline-grabbing processes and products. While recognizing that we must respond to ever-changing business needs, deep down we know we must live by a few absolutes as we approach our daily work. |
Jackie Pulley, Pulley Consulting Partners, LLC
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Database Development: The Object-oriented and Test-driven Way[presentation]
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As developers, we've created heuristics that help us build robust systems and employed test-driven development (TDD) to improve code design and counter instability. |
Max Guernsey, Hexagon Software LLC
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The Journey from Manager to Leader: Empowering Your Team[presentation]
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As I reflect on my struggles empowering teams to become self-managing, I am amazed that I didn't understand earlier. Things that seem so obvious after the fact are often difficult to acknowledge in the moment. |
Tricia Broderick, TechSmith Corporation
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Lessons Learned from Forty-five Years of Software Measurement[presentation]
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Counting is easy. However, what makes measurement really valuable-and really hard to get right-is knowing what to count and what to do with the results. |
Edward Weller, Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC
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Massive Continuous Integration and Light-speed Iterations[presentation]
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Continuous integration (CI) has become a buzzword, with most engineering organizations claiming they've adopted the practice. |
Jesse Dowdle, AtTask, Inc.
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Creating Great User Experiences: Tips and Techniques[presentation]
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Many software people look at creating great user experiences as a black art, something to guess at and hope for the best. It doesn't have to be that way! |
Jennifer Fraser, Macadamian
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Red Beads: A New Tool for Managing Software Projects[presentation]
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Warning! Warning! Managing software projects may be accompanied by continued bouts of nausea-brought on by unmet expectations, process churn, late deliveries, and worse. |
Howard Deiner, Deinersoft, Inc.
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Back to the Basics: Principles for Constructing Quality Software[presentation]
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Using an analogy to the building codes followed by architects and contractors in the construction of buildings, Rick Spiewak explores the fundamental principles for developing and delivering high quality, mission-critical systems. |
Rick Spiewak, The MITRE Corporation
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