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	You Don't Have All the Answers: So Stop Giving Advice and Start Asking Questions[presentation] Slideshow Many of us are raised to recognize the value of experts. When we work in a technical arena, seeing our own value as experts is re-enforced. We often are rewarded or promoted based on our knowledge. Our tendency is to want to solve problems by giving our colleagues, teams, and mentees sound...	Judith Mills, Judith Mills LLC
	Thieves of Agile Adoption: Approaches to Avoid[presentation] Slideshow Businesses are hit by thieves from all angles. Thieves often go unnoticed until something is missing. If you are adopting agile, you may have thieves stealing from your transformation right now. Every organization is different, but some thieves of agile adoption are well-known. Francie Van...	Francie Van Wirkus
	Applying Lean Startup Principles to Agile Projects[presentation] Slideshow Warning! You can still build the wrong product using agile. In Eric Ries’ book The Lean Startup, he poses the question: What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case, what would it matter if we did it on time and on budget? We often assume the Product Owner...	Michael Hall, Improving Enterprises
	The Show Must Go On: Leadership Lessons from the Theater[presentation] Slideshow When creating a play or movie, what are the first three rules of directing? Casting, casting, and casting. How does Saturday Night Live produce sketch after sketch of comedy? By iterating. John Krewson finds that the principles of leadership and management in the worlds of theatre, TV, and...	John Krewson, MasterCard Worldwide
	Don't Bulldoze a Vibrant Ecosystem for Agile[presentation] Slideshow Software processes are commonly portrayed using machine metaphors in which consistency is highly prized. Frequently, organizations set up Centers of Excellence in a well-intentioned effort to create enterprise consistency. Steve Adolph reminds us that, in reality, software development...	Steve Adolph, Blue Agility
	Emerging Product Owner Patterns in Large Organizations[presentation] Slideshow Many organizations are actively searching for the perfect product owner—a unicorn who knows all about the product, anticipates the market, innovates, and improves the product’s quality and architecture, all while making and meeting commitments to the organization. That's a difficult if not...	Timothy Wise, LeadingAgile
	Observation: The Key to a Great User Experience[presentation] Slideshow Observation is an important research technique when we are designing solutions to delight users. Some kinds of information that may make the difference between an acceptable solution and a delightful one can only be obtained by observing users in their native environment. Observing users...	Geri Winters, Wyyzzk, Inc.
	Agile Automation Strategies and Frameworks[presentation] Slideshow Agile practices have done a magnificent job of speeding up the software development process. Unfortunately, simply applying these agile practices to testing isn't enough to keep testers at the same pace. Test automation is necessary to support agile delivery. Max Saperstone presents an...	Max Saperstone, Coveros
	Things That Go Bump: Product Risk Assessment in Agile[presentation] Slideshow “I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road” (Stephen Hawking). As agile teams, we know that we can’t know everything, so we shouldn’t waste time thinking about that which we don’t know and...	Annette Head, Principal Financial Group
	Power Your Teams with Git[presentation] Slideshow Github revolutionized the coding world with their “social coding” approach. In doing so, Git, the source code repository behind Github, vaulted to the forefront of our industry. If Git hasn’t made its way into your, or your team’s, tool belt, Josh Anderson explains why it should. Learn how...	Josh Anderson, Dude Solutions
	Performance Testing Cloud-Based Systems[presentation] Slideshow As cloud computing becomes of strategic importance in the enterprise, part of the solution is no longer on-premise but in the cloud, adding a layer of complexity. Edwin Chan demystifies performance testing of cloud systems and applications by addressing the following key questions: Is...	Edwin Chan, Deloitte Inc.
	Overcome the Challenges of Test-Driven Development[presentation] Slideshow Test-driven development (TDD) is a powerful agile methodology that organizations both large and small can leverage to achieve consensus, collaboration, and quality. Based on his organization's experience with implementing TDD and the feedback he has received from other organizations...	Adam Satterfield, Bettercloud
	Actionable Customer Feedback: A Key to Product Success[presentation] Slideshow Actionable customer feedback, although difficult to capture well, is critical to adapting to customer needs. How can you ensure you identify the right customers, get customers to feedback sessions, and capture the most useful feedback?	Mario Moreira, Emergn Ltd
	Testing Is the Profession I Chose[presentation] Slideshow Never underestimate the power of sharing the testing team’s achievements, lessons learned, challenges faced, roadblocks encountered, and the enriching solutions found. Jyothi Rangaiah says as testers we must be ready to nurture the needs of testing and testers in the organizations we serve.	Jyothi Rangaiah
	Bringing Continuous Delivery to Dell.com: A Retrospective[presentation] Slideshow Multibillion dollar sales portal Dell.com has more than 1,000 developers working in tandem to contribute content and code. This presents unique strategic challenges when it comes to selecting, planning, and deploying DevOps tools. James Watt presents a retrospective on transitioning one of...	James Watt, Dell, Inc.

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