Agile Dev, Better Software & DevOps Conference East 2015

PRESENTATIONS

Actionable Customer Feedback: A Key to Product Success

Actionable customer feedback, although difficult to capture well, is critical to adapting to customer needs. How can you ensure you identify the right customers, get customers to feedback sessions, and capture the most useful feedback?

Mario Moreira, Emergn Ltd
Advance ALM and DevOps Practices with Continuous Improvement

Do you want to improve your application lifecycle and incorporate DevOps practices quickly with limited resources? If so, you’re experiencing a common scenario – not enough budget and unrealistic time constraints. Your big multi-year application lifecycle management (ALM) project seems...
Jason St-Cyr, Nonlinear Digital
Agile Adoption in Risk-Averse Environments

Adopting agile development methods in a conservative environment can be a daunting and time-consuming venture, facing resistance at all levels of the organization. You may wonder: Will this organization ever get with the times? Will our leaders ever change their way of thinking? 
Brian Duncan, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Agile and DevOps Transformations in Large Organizations

Many large scale organizations experience significant challenges as they pursue agile and DevOps transformations. They embark on adopting agile practices yet fail to reap the benefits of continuous release and delivery. Siraj Berhan explores common challenges—people, processes, technology....
Siraj Berhan, Royal Bank of Canada
Agile Automation Strategies and Frameworks

Agile practices have done a magnificent job of speeding up the software development process. Unfortunately, simply applying these agile practices to testing isn't enough to keep testers at the same pace. Test automation is necessary to support agile delivery. Max Saperstone presents an...
Max Saperstone, Coveros
Agility without Complexity: Fast and Efficient

The Agile Manifesto was stated in less than seventy words. Now, fourteen years later, layer upon layer have been added to it. What was supposed to be a simple philosophy has exploded into a gigantic industry. Much of this layering makes agile seem overly complex. We know developers want to...
Geoff Perlman, Xojo, Inc.
Applying Lean Startup Principles to Agile Projects

Warning! You can still build the wrong product using agile. In Eric Ries’ book The Lean Startup, he poses the question: What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case, what would it matter if we did it on time and on budget? We often assume the Product Owner...
Michael Hall, Improving Enterprises
Architecture vs. Design vs. Agile: What’s the Answer?

Is architecture the same as preliminary design in agile? It shouldn't be. Do we do architecture up front, then do iterative development after the architecture is done? That is edging back toward waterfall. Can you explain the purpose of the architecture in just two or three statements? 
Anthony Crain, Blue Agility
Bringing Continuous Delivery to Dell.com: A Retrospective

Multibillion dollar sales portal Dell.com has more than 1,000 developers working in tandem to contribute content and code. This presents unique strategic challenges when it comes to selecting, planning, and deploying DevOps tools. James Watt presents a retrospective on transitioning one of...
James Watt, Dell, Inc.
Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Shop—One Step at a Time

Not every continuous delivery (CD) initiative starts with someone saying “Drop everything. We’re going to do DevOps.” Sometimes, you have to grow your process incrementally. And sometimes you don’t set out to grow at all—you are just fixing problems with your process, trying to make things...
Gene Gotimer, Coveros, Inc.

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