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	Use Mind Maps to Increase Team Velocity and Communication Slideshow Ever sit in a strategy review session and get little or no participation from others? Or feel like you left a planning session with a different understanding of what was agreed to? If you feel there must be a more effective way to communicate important information around your strategy and...	Jennifer Bonine
	Fail Smart, Not Just Fast: Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Slideshow You’re a professional project manager or ScrumMaster. Your software development projects never fail because you follow all the best practices. Right? We all know better. Unfortunately, many projects fail, and they fail due to issues outside the team's control. The reality is that we need...	Rob Keefer
	Transform Test Organizations for the New World of DevOps Slideshow With the recent emergence of DevOps across the industry, testing organizations are being challenged to transform themselves significantly within a short period of time to stay meaningful within their organizations. It’s not easy to plan and approach these changes considering the way...	Sumit Kumar
	Measure DevOps for Objective Continuous Improvement Practices Slideshow Logan Daigle says DevOps has brought about unprecedented changes in the way organizations solve problems and break down silos. DevOps is empowering employees to automate expensive processes and leverage the power of cross-functional teams to benefit development and operations...	Logan Daigle
	Risk Aware, Not Risk Averse Slideshow Most of us dread failures. But things go wrong. We can become paralyzed by the fear of being the creator of the next outage or critical bug. After a failure, we often hold a postmortem, but this rarely addresses how we can be more proactive in preventing catastrophes. Considering our...	Siva Katir
	A Lean Tour of Lean Software Development Slideshow Lean software development has been described as “better, faster, cheaper” and focused on “eliminating waste,” but those are misnomers. Going after speed improvement and waste elimination can actually reduce the benefits you might otherwise get from lean. Ken Pugh describes what lean...	Ken Pugh
	Rightsizing User Stories Slideshow User stories and their big brothers, epics, are an excellent way to describe requirements for a software system. They act as stakes in the ground to keep track of what the system needs to do, the type of user most interested in each feature, and the reason the requirement...	Dave Todaro
	Eliminate Cloud Waste with a Holistic DevOps Strategy Slideshow Chris Parlette maintains that renting infrastructure on demand is the most disruptive trend in IT in decades. In 2016, enterprises spent $23B on public cloud IaaS services. By 2020, that figure is expected to reach $65B. The public cloud is now used like a utility, and like any utility...	Chris Parlette
	Leading, Following, or Managing? You Can Help Your Group Thrive Slideshow As testers or test managers, being effective mentors, coaches, and leaders is critical to our team’s success. Quite often we also play important roles in driving change, influencing others, and helping individuals, teams, and the business move from where they are to a higher level of...	Isabel Evans
	Behavior Driven Development—A Guide to Agile Practices Slideshow It seems as if the agile methods have lots of DD’s going on. BDD – Behavior Driven Development, ATDD – Acceptance Test Driven Development and several others. Adopting BDD allows for testing to be done as early as possible in the software development life cycle, promoting accurate testing...	Josh Eastman

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