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Where Are the Interns?[magazine]

The demand for software engineers is outpacing the supply from colleges and technical schools. Learn how to attract new talent through internships.

Patrick Bailey's picture Patrick Bailey
Scott Ross Building Trust and Culture in Teams: An Interview with Scott Ross[interview]

Scott Ross is presenting a session named "Leveraging Core Values for Healthier, More Productive Teams" at the 2012 Better Software Conference East. Scott shared with us the importance of maintaining a positive culture around development teams in order to keep everyone happy, healthy, and productive.

Noel Wurst's picture Noel Wurst
Journey to Agility: Leading the Transformation[presentation]

How far can you take agile within an organization? Is it enough to just focus on agile development practices such as Scrum and XP or is something more needed? Agile is much more than just a development methodology.

Skip Angel, BigVisible Solutions
Implementing Agile in an FDA-regulated Environment[presentation]

While many industries have adopted agile, the medical device industry, which develops products for life-critical applications-where quality and reliability are clearly a top-priority, remains largely stuck under the “waterfall.” Medical devic

Neeraj Mainkar, Neuronetics
Collaboration Workshops: Discover, Plan, and Prepare the Product Backlog[presentation]

To deliver high-value products, your agile team must reach a shared understanding of prioritized stakeholder needs. Collaborative techniques are best for this type of work, but not all agile teams use them or use them efficiently.

Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting, Inc.
Restating Scrum: Refining and Extending the Framework[presentation]

Knowing the rules of chess doesn’t equip you with strategies to win the game-much less make you a chess master.

Rob Maher, Scrum.org
Performance Appraisals for Agile Teams[presentation]

Traditional performance evaluations, which focus solely on individual performance, create a “chasm of disconnect” for agile team members.

Michael Hall, WorldLink, Inc.
Lessons from a DevOps Journey[presentation]

In large financial institutions, treasury departments-specialized teams of traders and experts in liquidity, risk, accounting, financial forecasting, and quantitative analysis-manage the organization’s wealth and financial risk.

Matt Callanan, Independent
Ready, Really Ready, and Really Really Ready Stories[presentation]

Product owners create stories they believe are ready for development. Developers accept and then estimate stories that are not really ready to be started.

Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West 2012: Patterns of "Big" Scrum[presentation]

Software development organizations adopting Scrum have struggled to apply it to big projects with multiple teams.

Dan Rawsthorne, Consultant
Enterprise Agile: From the Top Down[presentation]

Now that agile has gone mainstream, team-level development is not the only way organizations are implementing agile.

Jon Stahl, LeanDog Software, Inc.
Implementing Agile in the Cloud with a Large Distributed Team[presentation]

Jeremy Leach shares Pitney Bowes’ agile development experience implementing a cloud-based application with a large, globally-distributed team.

Jeremy Leach, Pitney Bowes
Specification by Example: Building Executable Requirements[presentation]

Specification by Example is a collaborative approach for constructing executable requirements. Examples demonstrate how the system should operate through the eyes of its users and shows understanding of the application’s functions.

Michael Connolly, OPOWER
Ten Things You Absolutely Must Know before Touching Agile with a Barge Pole[presentation]

As agile continues to grow in popularity, more organizations are experiencing the frustration and pain that accompany attempts to move from traditional to agile practices.

Ade Shokoya, AgileTV
Acceptance Test-driven Development: Tests with the Future in Mind[presentation]

Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD) is a popular topic these days-everyone’s excited about the idea of writing tests prior to development. Yet many teams run into difficulties as they attempt to implement this practice.

Jeff Morgan, LeanDog

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