Agile software development
What does it take to consistently deploy major releases to more than 2 million users several times a year? This session introduces the techniques used by the salesforce.com R&D team responsible for the internal agile development processes that delight customers with hundreds of new features every year, all with amazing …
This presentation provides a critical look at various “agile” practices and tries to highlight the dogma and ceremony that has creeped in. We will also question if the practices defined a decade ago are still applicable? If yes, have they evolved since? What are some of the original creators of …
Leading a self-organizing Scrum team can be a fine line. One of the challenges of agile development is coming to grips with the role of leaders and managers of self-organizing teams. Many would-be ScrumMasters and agile coaches go to the extreme of refusing to exert any influence on their teams …
When members of a development project are asked to become a self-directed agile team, some claim that leadership and leaders are obsolete. Or, is a different type of leadership exactly what agile teams need to truly flourish? Whether you are a senior manager, product owner, customer, ScrumMaster, or an individual …
Over the past three years we’ve been pushing to improve our automated testing practices within Plusnet and to win full support for it within the company across the spectrum of fellow developers, project managers and upper management. It took a while to agree on software we want to use, and …
When you are going to implement a new project, how are you going to determine when, if and how to buy from agile vendors? How do you determine if one supplier is better than another one? Choosing an agile vendor requires new strategies to procure agile vendors, new ways of …
