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Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West 2012: Patterns of "Big" Scrum[presentation] Software development organizations adopting Scrum have struggled to apply it to big projects with multiple teams. |
Dan Rawsthorne, Consultant
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Enterprise Agile: From the Top Down[presentation] Now that agile has gone mainstream, team-level development is not the only way organizations are implementing agile. |
Jon Stahl, LeanDog Software, Inc.
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Implementing Agile in the Cloud with a Large Distributed Team[presentation] Jeremy Leach shares Pitney Bowes’ agile development experience implementing a cloud-based application with a large, globally-distributed team. |
Jeremy Leach, Pitney Bowes
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Specification by Example: Building Executable Requirements[presentation] Specification by Example is a collaborative approach for constructing executable requirements. Examples demonstrate how the system should operate through the eyes of its users and shows understanding of the application’s functions. |
Michael Connolly, OPOWER
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Ten Things You Absolutely Must Know before Touching Agile with a Barge Pole[presentation] As agile continues to grow in popularity, more organizations are experiencing the frustration and pain that accompany attempts to move from traditional to agile practices. |
Ade Shokoya, AgileTV
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Acceptance Test-driven Development: Tests with the Future in Mind[presentation] Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD) is a popular topic these days-everyone’s excited about the idea of writing tests prior to development. Yet many teams run into difficulties as they attempt to implement this practice. |
Jeff Morgan, LeanDog
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Test-driven Development: An On-stage Demonstration[presentation] Test-driven development (TDD) is a skill that takes patience to master-you can’t learn it reading a book. As with learning any new language, to gain fluency you need to practice TDD with competent coaching and lots of hard work. |
Llewellyn Falco, DevelopMentor
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The Science of Lean[presentation] Science is the building and organizing of knowledge into testable explanations and predictions about the world; lean is an approach which recognizes and leverages many scientific discoveries to enable faster flow, higher value, and greater ca |
Karl Scotland, Rally Software Development
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Signs Your Agile Adoption Is Off Track-And How to Fix It[presentation] Adopting agile is often a difficult proposition with many variables and sometimes uneven results. Recognizing when your adoption isn't working well and taking pro-active actions to put it back on track are essential. |
Thomas Stiehm, Coveros, Inc.
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Testing Traps to Avoid on Agile Teams[presentation] Why do many agile teams fail at testing? |
Janet Gregory, DragonFire, Inc.
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Why Continuous Improvement Programs Fail: Can Kaizen and WIP Help?[presentation] If you have established an agile or lean development approach and aren’t experiencing meaningful innovations or improvements in your process, this session is for you. |
Michael DePaoli, VersionOne, Inc.
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Agile Metrics: Velocity Is Not the Goal[presentation] Velocity is one of the most common metrics used-and one of the most commonly misused-on agile projects. Velocity is simply a measurement of speed in a given direction-the rate at which a team is delivering toward a product release. |
Michael Norton, LeanDog
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Designing Agility Practices that Last[presentation] Every day more agile practices and styles emerge, overlap, and compete. This proliferation challenges you to choose from among XP, Scrum, lean, Kanban, or the ways of the emerging Lean Start Up crowd. |
David Hussman, DevJam
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Agile Development & Better Software West 2012: Agile Testing: Challenges Beyond the Easy Contexts[presentation] Don’t let anyone tell you differently: agile testing is hard! First, we have to get over the misconception that you don’t need testers within agile teams. |
Bob Galen, Deutsche Bank
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Transitioning Your Team to Kanban: Theory and Practice[presentation] You’re familiar with agile and perhaps practicing Scrum. Now, you want to learn about Kanban to see if it is something to add to your development toolkit. Can Kanban help you? How does it differ from Scrum and other agile methodologies? |
Gil Irizarry, Constant Contact Software
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