Agile + DevOps West 2019
PRESENTATIONS
Pushing Pennies: Playing with the Principles of Product Development Flow
Most agile practitioners first learn by reading a book, taking a class, or attending local meetings. But learning concepts works best when we can put some concrete examples and practice behind the theory. |
Bill DeVoe |
Reality-Driven Testing in Agile Projects
Many agile teams rework previously deployed stories, even after plenty of in-sprint testing. Even well-groomed, refined stories, framed with typical, alternate, and error scenarios and gracefully described in well-formed Gherkin, continue to encounter all sorts of bugs. |
Robert Sabourin |
See the Forest, Not Just the Trees: Improving Quality and Flow in a Continuous Delivery World
There are many companies today implementing agile and DevOps practices, usually enabled by a microservices architecture. Most of them are focused on continuously delivering value to their customers within the boundary of a time-bound sprint. |
Ashwin Desai |
Sparking End-to-End Agility
Nationwide Insurance had a "Scrummerfall" approach, with long, linear, upfront planning cycles that eventually fed work to agile delivery teams, only to then have the completed work languish in further waterfall steps toward deployment. |
Sanjiv Augustine |
The Essential Product Owner: Partnering with Your Teams
While the Scrum product owner is arguably the most crucial role within agile teams, we often hear horror stories about POs who aren’t available to their teams, change their minds incessantly on business priorities, or ignore quality requirements and technical debt. |
Bob Galen |
The Evolution of a Continuous Integration Pipeline
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Greg Sypolt |
The Hard Part of Every Agile Transformation
When it comes to an agile transformation, going through the motions of adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level is easy. |
Mike Cottmeyer |
The Lord of the Rings: DevOps Edition
Modern software delivery involves lean principles, DevOps practices, and of course tools. Implementing those elements in harmony will necessitate a change in how teams operate—more specifically, it will require a change in how managers think about teams. |
Joseph Ours |
Using Component Testing for Ultra-Fast Builds
A best practice of software architecture is to design your applications into independent modules or components, with a published contract for interaction between components. This is a principle of the microservices style of architecture, but it also applies to components created in a large monolith. |
Timothy Cochran |
What Japanese Shinkansen Trains Can Teach Us about Agile
Have you ever been to Japan and noticed that their railway system is incredibly efficient? As places like Tokyo continue to expand and the cost of living rises, more and more people rely on trains that start hours away from the city to arrive on time. |
Matthew Weinstock |
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