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Agile Engineering for Architects[presentation] Agile development requires architects and architecture, but the current user story-centric approach ignores the qualities of systems, instead overly focusing on features and functions. |
Ryan Shriver, Dominion Digital
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Picking the Right Test Automation Strategy for Your Project[presentation] The choice of a test automation strategy is a key determining factor in whether your test automation initiative will repay your investment, or become a sink hole devouring time and money. |
Gerard Meszaros, ClearStream Consulting
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Retrospectives in Action - Looking Back at the Conference[presentation] In this last-day, last-hour session, Jean Tabaka invites you to apply a fundamental practice of agile teams-retrospection. |
Jean Tabaka, Rally Software Development
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Scaling Agile Up and Out: A Tale from the Trenches[presentation] It seems like everyone wants to scale their agile teams. As projects grow in scope, the agile approach to software development needs to scale up to larger team sizes. |
Ade Miller, Microsoft Corporation
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Agile Growing Pains[presentation] Often, examples of agile successes are presented in the context of small, software-only development teams. Michael Kirby describes what it took to deploy agile development techniques in a large, embedded software development organization. |
Michael Kirby, Xerox Corporation
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Mistakes Agile Teams Make[presentation] The road to hell is paved with good intentions-with a special section reserved for those who have tried to "go agile". Agile adoption can fail because a number of common, large-scale, organizational issues. |
JB Rainsberger, Diaspar Software Services
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Agile Project Inception: Escaping the Waterfall[presentation] Whether you are working on a new development effort or the next release of an existing system, you are probably required to make a compelling business case for the proposed work to clear an approval committee's "go/no-go" process. |
Kenny Rubin, Innolution
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Getting Agile with Legacy Code[presentation] Applying agile methods to legacy code is challenging. |
Steve Berczuk, Cyrus Innovation
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Agile Usability Testing[presentation] Agile development has become mainstream in the past few years, and for thousands of companies around the world, it has succeeded in reducing risk and delivering more value for less money. |
John De Goes, N-BRAIN, Inc.
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The Business Value of Pair Programming[presentation] After ten years in the public eye, Pair programming (two people seated together, working on the same programming task) is still one of the most controversial of all the agile programming practices. |
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
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Maximizing Team Dynamics and Overcoming Dysfunction in Agile Environments[presentation] Change can be painful, but staying stagnant can hurt even more. |
Michael Mah, QSM Associates, Inc.
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A Lean Approach to Managing the Project Portfolio[presentation] Whether you've been agile for a while or are thinking about it, you have one thing in common with every other software team I've encountered. You have too much work to do. One way to organize your work is with a project portfolio. |
Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
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"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" - Empowering the Agile Team[presentation] Managers at many levels are often afraid to let go of the reins for fear of losing control of the project (and their position of power). V. |
V. Lee Henson, VersionOne, Inc.
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Assessing Your Agility[presentation] Are you curious how "agile" your organization is? Do you wonder how you compare with other organizations that have been using agile for a similar amount of time? |
Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software
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Test-Driven Development Takes On Embedded Software[presentation] Embedded software developers face the same challenges as other software developers-unpredictable schedules, poor quality, and the problems that follow. |
James Grenning, Renaissance Software Consulting, Co.
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