So your CTO has decided to go for Team System and some agile process like SCRUM – now all you as a developer has to do is “start your engine”! But how does the reality check really turn out? What support do you get from your tools and how do …
Over the past four years Adobe Systems has seen a grass roots movement among its product development teams towards agile practice adoption. After hearing a talk by Jeff Sutherland, Peter led one of the first Scrum teams at Adobe and has since trained and coached several other teams in their …
The starting point of all Agile engineering practices is reproducibly building from source code. If software is delivered on servers, and those servers can’t be reproducibly deployed from bare metal to running services, how Agile can you be? The definition of ’shipping’ software has changed dramatically in the last decade. …
Managers at many levels are often afraid to let go of the reins in fear that they may lose control of the project. This interactive presentation will display the benefit of managers letting go, and will outline the expectations of a responsible, empowered agile team. Through presentation of multiple real-world …
Agile is now mature enough to exchange ideas with other fields. Ideas should flow in both directions – bringing in new ideas from outside, and also sharing what we have learned with the wider community. This session will present useful ideas which we can “steal” from business, psychology, economics and …
Have you heard the story of the poor code monkey? The one who had to prove to his boss that his web app actually worked? Are you the poor code monkey? See how Selenium on Rails can make it easier to take the pain out of view testing by writing …