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Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Agile 3.0: The Five Secrets Advanced Agile Companies Know[presentation]
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Now that organizations have opted to morph agile into their own homegrown Agile Center of Excellence, many have missed out on simple advanced practices that would allow them to be even more aligned and ready to embrace a more practical agi

V Lee Henson
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Measuring Flow: Metrics That Matter[presentation]
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Are you considering kanban but not sure how you’ll predict delivery without story points, velocity, and a burndown chart? Or are you part of a Scrum team but feeling like your team could benefit from improved flow within your sprints?

Julie Wyman
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Creating an Innovation-Rich Culture[presentation]
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It's important to create a culture that inspires and infuses your development team with great ideas. But ideas are not action.

Melissa Petak
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Methods for Handling Key-Person Dependencies in Agile Teams[presentation]
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On any team, from infrastructure engineering to development to HR, there is always a looming danger of one individual being the only person capable of performing a key task, either because of their technical skills, domain skills, or busin

Lee Eason
DevOps West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018 Liquibase: An Open Source Version Control Tool for Your Database[presentation]
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Blaine Carter
Proving Out Your DevOps Pipeline Using a Minimum Viable Product[presentation]
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In the rush to be more competitive, an organization is often tempted to do an across-the board, "big bang" implementation.

Tim Guay
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Accelerating Your Test Execution Pipeline [presentation]
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Bria Grangard
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Testing with AI for Agile Teams [presentation]
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Agile teams ship frequently and change things all the time--by design. In the middle of all this, agile teams need to make sure that their core user flows like sign-in, shopping carts and search features still work on every new build.

Jason Arbon
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Create Influence, on Demand[presentation]
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Bernie Maloney
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Beating the Feature Factory Mindset[presentation]
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On a human level, we crave outcomes and impact. But in software product development, there is something addictive about the "build more and more features" approach that often leaves people frustrated and unsatisfied.

John Cutler
DevOps West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018 How DevOps Drives Product Innovation[presentation]
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Customers are demanding faster delivery of software products. Unfortunately, many organizations have not figured out how to automate their delivery process so they can deploy software applications on demand.

Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Strategies for Selecting the Right Open Source Framework for Cross-Browser Testing[presentation]
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Eran Kinsbruner
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Five Core Values to Focus Your Regression Testing Efforts[presentation]
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In an agile world where having dedicated testers can be a controversial idea, manual testing is a tough sell. Not all contexts have their testing automated, so what is a manual tester to do when it comes time to release?

Brendan Connolly
Better Software West 2018, Agile Dev West 2018, DevOps West 2018 A Case Study in Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement [presentation]
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Continuous improvement is the goal of agile teams. But what does it look like when we create a continuous improvement strategy beyond our agile teams and bring it to the company level?

Kevin Goldsmith
Agile Dev West 2018, Better Software West 2018, DevOps West 2018 Outcome Over Output: Don't Be a Backlog Lumberjack[presentation]
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As agile goes mainstream, many organizations are only focused on mastering different elements of agile frameworks. Progress is measured by vanity metrics such as velocity and burndown charts.

Kalpesh Shah

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