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Test-driven Development: An On-stage Demonstration[presentation]

Test-driven development (TDD) is a skill that takes patience to master-you can’t learn it reading a book. As with learning any new language, to gain fluency you need to practice TDD with competent coaching and lots of hard work.

Llewellyn Falco, DevelopMentor
The Science of Lean[presentation]

Science is the building and organizing of knowledge into testable explanations and predictions about the world; lean is an approach which recognizes and leverages many scientific discoveries to enable faster flow, higher value, and greater ca

Karl Scotland, Rally Software Development
Signs Your Agile Adoption Is Off Track-And How to Fix It[presentation]

Adopting agile is often a difficult proposition with many variables and sometimes uneven results. Recognizing when your adoption isn't working well and taking pro-active actions to put it back on track are essential.

Thomas Stiehm, Coveros, Inc.
Testing Traps to Avoid on Agile Teams[presentation]

Why do many agile teams fail at testing?

Janet Gregory, DragonFire, Inc.
Why Continuous Improvement Programs Fail: Can Kaizen and WIP Help?[presentation]

If you have established an agile or lean development approach and aren’t experiencing meaningful innovations or improvements in your process, this session is for you.

Michael DePaoli, VersionOne, Inc.
Agile Metrics: Velocity Is Not the Goal[presentation]

Velocity is one of the most common metrics used-and one of the most commonly misused-on agile projects. Velocity is simply a measurement of speed in a given direction-the rate at which a team is delivering toward a product release.

Michael Norton, LeanDog
Designing Agility Practices that Last[presentation]

Every day more agile practices and styles emerge, overlap, and compete. This proliferation challenges you to choose from among XP, Scrum, lean, Kanban, or the ways of the emerging Lean Start Up crowd.

David Hussman, DevJam
Agile Development & Better Software West 2012: Agile Testing: Challenges Beyond the Easy Contexts[presentation]

Don’t let anyone tell you differently: agile testing is hard! First, we have to get over the misconception that you don’t need testers within agile teams.

Bob Galen, Deutsche Bank
Transitioning Your Team to Kanban: Theory and Practice[presentation]

You’re familiar with agile and perhaps practicing Scrum. Now, you want to learn about Kanban to see if it is something to add to your development toolkit. Can Kanban help you? How does it differ from Scrum and other agile methodologies?

Gil Irizarry, Constant Contact Software
Adding Good User Experience Practices into Agile Development[presentation]

Whose job is it to ensure that the user has a good experience with a new application? As agile processes are taught today, the user experience (UX) design practice is usually left out or at best described as an optional team role.

Jeff Patton, Jeff Patton & Associates
Agile Architecture Practices for Large Scale Agile Development[presentation]

Although “agile architecture” may sound like an oxymoron to you, the reality is that a simple, elegant architecture is a key enabler of any successful system, particularly large scale ones.

Theresa Quatrani, IBM Rational
Agile Measures that Matter: What Are You Really Learning?[presentation]

“Speed” describes how fast an object is moving and let’s us compute the distance it has traveled. “Velocity” is different-it defines both speed and direction. So why do I meet so many teams who talk about their velocity but lack direction?

David Hussman, DevJam
Integrating Systems Thinking into Enterprise Agile[presentation]

While Scrum and XP have become very popular in agile development shops, most companies adopting them run into problems beyond just a few teams.

Alan Shalloway, Net Objectives
Automate to Accelerate: Planning Your Next Test Automation Steps[presentation]

Is your organization implementing test automation and not achieving the expected success? Are you spending too much effort rewriting scripts that don't hold up over time? Do your test plans sometimes look like random acts of automation?

Andrew Flick, Hewlett-Packard
Creating a Professional Credo: Aligning Career, Goals, and Personal Happiness[presentation]

In a world where technology is rapidly changing, development practices are quickly evolving, and teams are frequently reorganized, how can you remain steady and true to yourself?

Marlena Compton, Mozilla

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