Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2013

PRESENTATIONS

Implementing DevOps and Making It Stick

If you’ve ever been involved in promoting cultural change within an organization, you may have experienced something even more disheartening than flat-out rejection—a full rollback of hard-won cultural change followed by a decade-long resentment of anyone remotely associated with the...
Alex Papadimoulis , Inedo
Large Agile Transformations: A Roadmap for Lasting Change

Agile methods have gained the attention of leaders as a way to speed time to market and increase motivation. Businesses are looking to agile as a way to achieve organizational change so teams deliver more value faster, and where people’s pride and joy of work are enhanced.
Ole Jepsen, goAgile & Jenni Jepsen, goAgile
Lean Startup Tools for Scrum Product Owners

In just a few years, the Lean Startup movement has gained influence by promoting a powerful but simple agile product management toolset—one that complements agile software development approaches such as Scrum and kanban. Arlen Bankston explores the tools and techniques product...
Arlen Bankston, LitheSpeed
Lessons from Busting Organizational Silos

We’ve all heard of the evils that can result from organizational silos—bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and the “us vs. them” mentality. Perhaps you’ve been a victim. As Tricia Broderick repeatedly experienced value from busting individual project team silos, she naturally wanted to expand her...
Tricia Broderick, Santeon Group
Make the Cloud Less Cloudy: A Perspective for Software Development Teams

With so many technologies branded as “cloud” products, it can be difficult to distinguish good technology from good marketing. The resulting confusion complicates the work of software development teams who are trying not only to architect software effectively but also trying to accelerate...
Bill Wilder, Development Partners Software Corporation
Managing Multiple Teams at Scale with Scrum and Lean

Scrum has become very popular in agile development shops, but most organizations that adopt Scrum run into challenges when they expand beyond a few teams. Ken Paugh believes that you can overcome the challenging patterns of scaling Scrum by focusing on lean-flow.
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
Measure Customer and Business Feedback to Drive Improvement

Companies often go to great lengths to collect metrics. However, even the most rigorously collected data tends to be ignored, despite the findings and potential for improving practices. Today, one metric that cannot be ignored is customer satisfaction. Customers are more than willing to...
Paul Fratellone, uTest
Oh, WASP! Security Essentials for Web Apps

The past few years have seen a rapid increase in business efficiency through Web-based applications. Unfortunately, a dramatic increase in the number of web application vulnerabilities has followed. Insecure web applications can be disastrous for mission critical businesses and users'...
Benny Paul, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Organizing a Self-Organizing Team

Your organization is embracing agile. When it comes to adopting the process, your team seems to be doing all the right things. Yet deep down, something still doesn’t seem quite right. As their leader, it could be that you haven’t figured it out either. Perhaps your team is lacking some...
John Lynch, Clashmore Software Solutions
Pivoting Your Testers to Become Agile

Many organizations struggle with transforming from the old-style specialized silos of skills into agile teams with generalized specialists. Without this pivot, we get sub-optimal agile/Scrum environments. Howard Deiner describes what can go wrong when integrating testers properly into an...
Howard Deiner, BigVisible Solutions

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