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Zero to Agile in Three+ Years: It's a Marathon[presentation] Agile transformations for large organizations can have mixed results-and often fail miserably if the goal is to become an "agile organization." Sean Buck shares the story of The Capital Group Companies, a 7,000 person organization, which took |
Sean Buck, The Capital Group Companies Inc
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Automation Maturity: Planning Your Next Step in Test Automation[presentation] Do you find your organization not achieving the test automation benefits and ROI you expected? Are you spending too much effort rewriting scripts that don't hold up over time? |
Ayal Cohen, HP
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Defect Analysis: The Foundation of Process Improvement[presentation] Do you have a process in place to analyze defects, identify the defect categories and common pitfalls, and correlate the results to recommended corrective actions? |
David Oddis, The College Board
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Performance Engineering for MASSIVE Systems[presentation] Dealing with a single system is challenging enough, but the game changes dramatically on a multi-system, distributed platform. |
Mark Lustig, Collaborative Consulting
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Get It All Done: A Story of Personal Productivity[presentation] You procrastinate. You worry that you may be making the wrong choice. You spend time on the irrelevant. You don't select the most important tasks from your many "to do's." You can't get things done on time. |
James Martin, RiverGlide
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Improving Software Quality Through Static Analysis[presentation] You've implemented unit testing, pair programming, and code inspection in your development process, but defects still escape despite your best efforts. |
Michael Portwood, The Nielsen Company
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Building Secure Applications[presentation] The Internet is full of insecure applications that cost organizations money and time, while damaging their reputations when their systems are compromised. |
Thomas Stiehm, Coveros, Inc.
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Better Software Conference East 2011: Writing High Quality Code[presentation] Quality in delivered software is intangible and very different from quality in physical goods. Some external attributes of quality software-free from defects and easy to maintain-are reflections of the code's internal qualities. |
David Bernstein, Techniques of Design
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Project Estimation: The Scientific Way[presentation] At its core, estimating is a personal process. When estimating a task, your brain combines past experiences, confidence, and intuition to create a best guess. |
Paul Pagel, 8th Light
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Risk Analysis for Test Managers[presentation] Risks are endemic in every step of every software project. A well-established key to project success is to proactively identify, understand, and mitigate these risks. |
Julie Gardiner, Grove Consultants
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Using Technical Debt to Predict Product Value[presentation] Overly complex code? Duplicate code? Inherent coupling? Been there, done that. |
Emad Georgy, Experian
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Avoiding Over-design and Under-design[presentation] The question of how much-or how little-design to do up-front on a project often leads to a conundrum. Too much design often results in overkill engineering that results in extra complexity and wasted effort. |
Cory Foy, Net Objectives
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Transform Your Innovation Thinking[presentation] Innovation is a word tossed around frequently in organizations today. |
Jennifer Bonine, Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
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Agile Development Conference East 2011: A Software Quality Engineering Maturity Model[presentation] You are probably familiar with maturity models for software development such as CMMI. |
Gregory Pope, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Testing in the Cloud: Is it Right For You?[presentation] Finally, software testing in the cloud is not just for dreamers anymore! Join Andrew Pollner to explore why and how cloud-based testing is emerging as a viable alternative to replace or complement traditional testing platforms. |
Andrew Pollner, ALP International Corp
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