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	Agile Requirements—From Breadth to Depth[presentation] Slideshow Requirements elicitation and documentation can be frustrating in an agile process. Some interpret the Agile Manifesto statement “working software over comprehensive documentation” to mean that no requirements documentation is warranted because the code documents the requirements. Others...	Ken Pugh
	Scaling Agile: Remembering Tolstoy’s Unhappy Family Analogy[presentation] Slideshow While Agile has become mainstream at the team level with much research and practical experience, scaling agile to the enterprise is a topic of increasing interest and practice—with some successes and some spectacular failures. As Tolstoy wrote, “Happy families are all alike; each unhappy...	Mariya Breyter
	Lead Teams that Deliver the Goods[presentation] Slideshow In software development—and in many life activities—success often depends on how well we collaborate with our team and our stakeholders. Yet getting a group of people to truly work in partnership—let alone self-organize—is a daunting challenge. And we’re often left with lingering...	Andy Kaufman
	Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Large-Scale Agile Transformation[presentation] Slideshow A few years ago everyone wanted to know how to convince their executives to go agile. Today, executives are asking their teams how they'll make the transformation. We have made significant progress changing the hearts and minds of senior leadership, but executives now demand a greater...	Mike Cottmeyer
	Removing the Silos: When Agile, Lean, and DevOps Aren’t Enough[presentation] Slideshow Your organization has adopted some combination of agile, lean, and DevOps practices, yet you have a sinking feeling that it’s not working the way everyone hoped it would. You’re wondering if it’s because you work for a very large organization and all this talk about small, cross-functional...	Betty Zakheim
	Enable Your Workers … You’ll Be Amazed What They Can Do[presentation] Slideshow It’s as true today as it was in 1986 when W. Edwards Deming published Out of the Crisis and wrote, “Remove barriers that rob people … of their right to pride of workmanship.” Companies everywhere implement processes, hire staff, and install tools to help them meet their business objectives.	Bob Jarvis
	Teamwork Tools: Movement Games for Collaboration and Creativity[presentation] Slideshow Are you looking for new ways to invigorate your teams? Do retrospectives seem stale? Do story breakdown meetings feel flat? On the other hand, maybe your teams are humming and you’re looking for additional variety. The research is clear—movement matters, and play stimulates creativity.	Andrew Smith
	Solve Everyday IT Problems with DevOps[presentation] Slideshow Some believe that DevOps is only applicable to Internet-based companies with a desire to disrupt existing businesses. On the contrary, DevOps practices can dramatically reduce many everyday IT problems—defects, incidents, waste, bottlenecks, downtime, and infrastructure fragility.	Sherry Chang
	Your Agile Team Needs a Therapist[presentation] Slideshow Imagine you’re on an agile development team—and something feels weird. People disagree constantly, and when they finally do agree, no one commits to deliver the solution. Vocal team members dominate the conversation. You don’t trust your teammates. They don’t trust you. This isn’t a team.	Robb Pieper
	Don't Ask "Can You Hear Me Now?" Start Listening Instead[presentation] Slideshow Most of us believe we are good listeners. However, we often overestimate this skill and are hard-wired to short change it by making assumptions, providing answers, and jumping in when we think we know what people are trying to say. In doing so, we rob ourselves of the chance to encourage...	Judith Mills
	DevOps Is More than Dev and Ops: It’s about Tearing Down Walls[presentation] Slideshow The word DevOps is quickly becoming the new Agile—an overused word that has lost its meaning. Cutting through the jargon, Lee Eason gets to the heart of what DevOps means, where it came from, and why it is crucial for your company to embrace it. If you want to deliver on the promise of...	Lee Eason
	Them’s the Rules: Using a Rules Engine to Wrangle Complexity[presentation] Slideshow When dealing with complicated and ever-growing program conditions brought on by new business requirements, it's easy for what was once a small conditional block of code to grow to evaluating hundreds of unique conditions. Unfortunately, much like kudzu, that bad practice begins to creep...	Micah Breedlove
	Agile Metrics: Make Better Decisions with Data[presentation] Slideshow Some consider measurement in agile development destructive—or at the very least useless. Larry Maccherone disagrees and offers insight into how you can use metrics in an agile environment to make life better. How do you know when you are ready to introduce metrics into the environment?	Larry Maccherone
	Build Adaptable Teams: The Marine Corps Way[presentation] Slideshow Shrinking budgets, increased workloads, and ever-changing demands challenge today’s product teams to adapt and learn to do more with less. Since its birth in 1775, the United States Marine Corps has faced similar trials. The key to the Corps’ survival—not unlike that of a product team—has...	Anne Steiner
	Build Fail-Proof Tests in Any Browser with Selenium[presentation] Slideshow What happens when you have thousands of tests that run beautifully in Chrome but many of them fail in Internet Explorer? Unfortunately, this scenario is all too common for testers and remains a major sore point for teams tasked with getting software to work in any browser. Kevin Berg...	Kevin Berg

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