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	The Five Common Unconscious Biases Affecting Your Team[presentation] Slideshow Are you having a difficult time finding female engineers to join your teams? Are you currently working on a project which seems to be going nowhere? Have you ever engaged in what you thought was customer-driven work only to later discover it was stakeholder-driven? When it comes to...	Catherine Louis
	Put Agile to the Test: A Case Study for Test Agility on a Large IT Project[presentation] Slideshow Agile practices, although applicable to a variety of situations, are most commonly applied to IT projects, generally for software development. Can you apply agile methods to just part of a software implementation project? Todd Jones presents this case study where agile techniques were...	Todd Jones
	Pin the Tail on the Metric: A Field-Tested Agile Game[presentation] Slideshow Metrics don’t have to be a necessary evil. If done right, metrics can help guide us to make better forward-looking decisions, rather than being used for simply managing or monitoring. They can help us identify trade-offs between options for what to do next versus punitive or worse...	Steve Martin
	Measure Anything: The Quality, Productivity, Predictability, and Engagement Model[presentation] Slideshow Measuring software development is difficult. Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of complex initiatives (such as adopting agile) is even more difficult. One department at IBM struggled to reduce a list of 150 metrics down to a top twenty to use in consulting engagements. Through the...	Anthony Crain
	My Dad Won’t Buy Me a DevOps[presentation] Slideshow Many IT managers find themselves banging their heads against a wall trying to get upper management to invest in DevOps. Managers see clear opportunities to implement it into their organizations but get a No from senior executives. Many managers are frustrated that, despite all the...	T.j. Randall
	Turn the Lights On: A Power Utility Company's Agile Transformation[presentation] Slideshow Why would a century-old utility with no direct competitors take on the challenge of transforming its entire IT application organization to an agile methodology? In an increasingly interconnected world, the expectations of customers continue to evolve. From smart meters to smart phones, IoT...	Glen Morris
	Leverage Streaming Data in a Microservices Ecosystem[presentation] Slideshow Imagine a world where operational data is continuously flowing from applications and devices at an extremely high rate. Now imagine services intercepting this data and analyzing it real time. Sounds futuristic? It's not—it's here today. Mark Richards describes what streaming architecture...	Mark Richards
	Use Mind Maps to Increase Team Velocity and Communication[presentation] Slideshow Ever sit in a strategy review session and get little or no participation from others? Or feel like you left a planning session with a different understanding of what was agreed to? If you feel there must be a more effective way to communicate important information around your strategy and...	Jennifer Bonine
	Resolve the Contradiction of Specialists within Agile Teams[presentation] Slideshow As teams grow, organizations often draw a distinction between feature teams, which deliver the visible business value to the user, and component teams, which manage shared work. Steve Berczuk says that this distinction can help organizations be more productive and scale effectively, but he...	Steve Berczuk
	Machine Data Is EVERYWHERE: Use It for Testing[presentation] Slideshow As more applications are hosted on servers, they produce immense quantities of logging data. Quality engineers should verify that apps are producing log data that is existent, correct, consumable, and complete. Otherwise, apps in production are not easily monitored, have issues that are...	Tom Chavez
	We Are Doing Agile But, But, But …[presentation] Slideshow “We are doing agile, but the only tests we do in a sprint are unit tests” or “We are doing agile, but we have a hardening phase at the end, which is really more of a system integration test” or “We are doing agile, but testing is done by a separate test team.” Sound familiar? Gitte Ottosen...	Gitte Ottosen
	Cultural Intelligence: A Key Skill for Success[presentation] Slideshow Diversity is becoming the norm in everyday life. However, introducing global delivery models without a proper understanding of intercultural differences can lead to difficulty, frustration, and reduced productivity. Priyanka Sharma and Thena Barry say that in our diverse world, we need...	Priyanka Sharma and Thena Berry
	Intelligent Software Development, Courtesy of Intelligent Software[presentation] Slideshow The machine learning age is well underway. Today’s software can see novel patterns that humans are unable to see and improve task performance based on experience. Learning algorithms are widely used for varied purposes, including loan approval, intrusion detection, fraud prevention, risk...	Stephen Frein
	Fail Smart, Not Just Fast: Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)[presentation] Slideshow You’re a professional project manager or ScrumMaster. Your software development projects never fail because you follow all the best practices. Right? We all know better. Unfortunately, many projects fail, and they fail due to issues outside the team's control. The reality is that we need...	Rob Keefer
	Risk Aware, Not Risk Averse[presentation] Slideshow Most of us dread failures. But things go wrong. We can become paralyzed by the fear of being the creator of the next outage or critical bug. After a failure, we often hold a postmortem, but this rarely addresses how we can be more proactive in preventing catastrophes. Considering our...	Siva Katir

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