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	Slay the Dragons of Agile Measurement[presentation] Slideshow Some consider measurement in agile development destructive—or at the very least useless. Larry Maccherone disagrees and offers eight tools to slay the dragons of agile measurement. The #1 Dragon slayer—Use measurement for feedback rather than as a lever. What's the difference? Feedback is...	Larry Maccherone
	A Simple Tool for Speaking Honestly and Constructively[presentation] Slideshow Are you on a team where people avoid conflict or shy away from saying anything that might sound critical? Reluctance to speak up can block important challenges from being identified, and deny your team and organization the opportunity to learn and improve. According to Lorraine Aguilar...	Lorraine Aguilar
	Your User Stories Are Too Big: Yes, They Are![presentation] Slideshow When a user story is too big, it is harder to understand, estimate, and implement successfully. Some teams break the “business story” into “technical stories” but this generally doesn’t help because most or all of the technical stories need to be completed before there is anything...	Chris Sims
	Zorro Circles: Retrospectives for Excellence[presentation] Slideshow Have you wondered how to progressively harness your agile team’s energy, focus on important goals, and improve outcomes? Woody Zuill said, “If you could adopt only one agile practice, then let it be retrospectives. Everything else will follow.” Retrospectives help individuals and teams...	Aakash Srinivasan and Vivek Angiras
	The Power of an Agile Mindset[presentation] Slideshow Linda Rising, co-author of Fearless Change and the recently published More Fearless Change, has wondered for some time whether much of Agile's success has been the result of the placebo effect—that is, good things happened because we believed they would. The placebo effect is a startling...	Linda Rising
	The Soft Skills of Great Software Developers[presentation] Slideshow Are you creating clean, high performing code? Are you following the right development practices, but still don’t feel you are getting the recognition or success you deserve? The truth is that working harder and improving your programming skills are not enough. Great developers must...	Raul Suarez
	From Unclear and Unrealistic Requirements to Achievable User Stories[presentation] Slideshow "What do you want the system to do?" can be a loaded question for agile teams. Ideally, the product owner gives you a product backlog with fully groomed user stories prioritized by business value, ready for team discussion and estimation. Instead, you may have the “big picture” product...	Jamie Lynn Cooke
	Great Business Analysts “Think Like a Freak”[presentation] Slideshow In today's competitive market, employers increasingly depend on business analysts to act as change agents. This puts BAs in the powerful position of influencers—providing the analysis and evidence needed to support an organization’s strategic direction and decision-making. In their book...	Faye Thompson
	Command Query Responsibility Segregation at Enterprise Scale[presentation] Slideshow As organizations grow, they find themselves looking for opportunities to enhance the rate at which features can be delivered while minimizing negative business impact. Carlyle Davis believes that we are responsible for creating an system environment that provides simplicity and resiliency...	Carlyle Davis
	Docker Containers in the Enterprise DevOps Journey[presentation] Slideshow As technology moves from being a cost-center to a revenue generator in nearly every business, technologists are expected to deliver more with fewer resources. DevOps enables this efficiency through improved collaboration between product management, development, release management, quality...	Aater Suleman
	Product Management: The Innovation Glue for the Lean Enterprise[presentation] Slideshow At a time when organizations of all sizes both want and need innovation, exciting approaches including lean startup and agile development have risen to the forefront. Although there is no shortage of resources and expertise on these approaches, less guidance is available on the daunting...	Mimi Hoang and George Schlitz
	What Everyone on the Team Needs to Know about Test Automation[presentation] Slideshow Test automation should be an activity that involves the entire project team—not just the testing group. Test automation is a technical testing task, and the test team benefits from the assistance of others in the organization. Jim Trentadue outlines the various testing activities with the...	Jim Trentadue
	Improvisation for Agile Skill Development[presentation] Slideshow In today's economy, the Creative Economy, businesses face a disrupted, highly competitive, and constantly changing landscape. Robie and Jody Wood say that to thrive in the Creative Economy, team members, managers, and executives need to become and remain agile. Improvisational theater...	Robie Wood
	Implementing Agile in an FDA Regulated Environment[presentation] Slideshow Developing medical devices that are subject to FDA approval has traditionally followed the waterfall methodology, largely due to the structure of the regulations that govern development practices. But we know from myriad case studies in different industries that agile methodologies are far...	Neal Herman
	How to Do Kick-Ass Software Development[presentation] Slideshow Software development is hard― keeping developers, testers, designers, product managers and other stakeholders in sync and working on the right things at the right time. Building the systems that customers care about and delivering high-quality code fast are challenges every development...	Sven Peters

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