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The Lord of the Rings: DevOps Edition[presentation]
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Modern software delivery involves lean principles, DevOps practices, and of course tools. Implementing those elements in harmony will necessitate a change in how teams operate—more specifically, it will require a change in how managers think about teams. |
Joseph Ours
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Case Study: An Engineering-Focused, Scaled Agile Rollout at Standard & Poor's[presentation]
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A large company moves to agile, but when the going gets tough, they abandon all their agile processes and revert to old ways—which are now a combination of Scrum and waterfall—and delivery is worse than before they started. |
Stan Guzik
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Sparking End-to-End Agility[presentation]
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Nationwide Insurance had a "Scrummerfall" approach, with long, linear, upfront planning cycles that eventually fed work to agile delivery teams, only to then have the completed work languish in further waterfall steps toward deployment. |
Sanjiv Augustine
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DevOps: A Journey of Automation That's Worth the Wait[presentation]
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Continuous delivery is really about one thing: quickly responding to market changes. As with many teams, Shareen Gurley and Narasimha Yalamala's journey began with automation, which seemed never-ending. |
Shareen Gurley
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Creating High-Performing Teams at Spotify[presentation]
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In a scaled agile world of practitioners with diverse software development experience, how should leaders and coaches support teams' continuous improvement and ensure they are using best practices in engineering, ways of working, and culture? |
Catherine Fleres
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Pushing Pennies: Playing with the Principles of Product Development Flow[presentation]
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Most agile practitioners first learn by reading a book, taking a class, or attending local meetings. But learning concepts works best when we can put some concrete examples and practice behind the theory. |
Bill DeVoe
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Hunting Sasquatch: Finding Intermittent Issues Using Periodic Automation[presentation]
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In pop culture, Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) is an ape-like creature infrequently seen in the Pacific Northwest of North America—if he even exists. |
Paul Grizzaffi
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DevOpsing Your Greenfield: Cultivating New Growth[presentation]
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Your project sponsor presents a golden opportunity with a brand-new project, saying, "I want to do some DevOps on our new agile project!" |
Richard Mills
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Fantastic Outcomes and How to Measure Them[presentation]
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Do your metrics track what matters most to your organization, or do they merely quantify your adherence to a process? Is that process a good proxy for real results? In your environment? |
Cheryl Hammond
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Engaging the Other Half of the Room[presentation]
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Do you often attend meetings or events where participation is left to only half the room, while the others sit quietly, waiting for it to be over? |
Todd Miller
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The Essential Product Owner: Partnering with Your Teams[presentation]
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While the Scrum product owner is arguably the most crucial role within agile teams, we often hear horror stories about POs who aren’t available to their teams, change their minds incessantly on business priorities, or ignore quality requirements and technical debt. |
Bob Galen
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What's That Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code[presentation]
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We are often reminded by those experienced in writing test automation that code is code. The sentiment being conveyed is that test code should be written with the same care and rigor that production code is written with. |
Angie Jones
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Building Healthy Agile and DevOps Teams [presentation]
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The tools and technologies our teams rely on to build solutions are changing faster every day. New frameworks, new tools, transformations to DevOps, and migrations to public cloud are all putting strain on our teams. |
Lee Eason
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Mining a Data Lake to Improve Analysis of Your Test Automation Data: An Interview with Greg Paskal[interview]
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In this interview, Greg Paskal, a technology innovator in quality assurance, discusses a new open source tool from Elastic Stack that creates a “data lake” that can be mined to analyze the data coming from test automation on a more effective level than pass/fail. |
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Top 10 AgileConnection Articles of 2018[article] Agile isn't something you can adopt through tooling; you have to adhere to the agile principles every step of the way. The top articles from 2018 show that people were looking to improve and refine their agile practices, with popular topics including how to enhance your daily standups, retrospectives, and planning. Check out this roundup for ways to enhance your agile operations. |