What's Surgery Got to do with Improving Software Practices?

Time: 12:45 PM ET | 11:45 AM CT | 9:45 AM PT
Duration: One hour and a fifteen minutes

Speakers:
Edward Kit, Software Development Technologies


 

Surgeons and software professionals—now those are two occupations you probably haven’t seen in the same sentence until now. It is fascinating to see what real life lessons we can learn from successful process improvement programs adopted by another group of professionals: medical surgeons. Many practices of early surgeons—trial and error, lack of standards, failure to measure and share outcomes, and more—bear a striking resemblance to software professionals and practices today. Ed Kit looks back at the important lessons learned from more than 150 years of key improvements that surgeons adopted and how these lessons relate to our young industry. Offering a practical approach that you can take back to your team and organization, Ed describes how to institute process and practice improvements that will become—quite simply—the way you work. Based on his more than twenty years of helping transform testing and development teams around the world, Ed shares what it really takes to sustain effective adoption of changes that will improve software delivery capability.

About the Presenters:

Edward Kit, Software Development Technologies

The founder and president of Software Development Technologies (SDT), Edward Kit is a recognized expert in the area of software testing and automation. Since 1992 Ed has led SDT senior consultant teams to develop world class enterprise software test centers of excellence that transform testing. His pioneering work with keyword-driven test design and automation revolutionized the test automation industry. An invited speaker at industry and Fortune 500 conferences, Edward is the author of Software Testing in the Real World which has been adopted as a standard by many companies including Exxon, Pepsico, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, Research in Motion, JCPenney, MGM Resorts International, and others.

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