Even with the simplest of programming problems, a software developer can get stuck on code. It happens to engineers of all experience levels. This session will show you many strategies for getting unstuck. We will start by reframing the act of getting stuck as a positive. Then we present many …
Many Java codebases contain code that is overly complicated, hard to understand, and hence expensive to change. It doesn’t have to be that way, and in this presentation you will see how easily obtained version-control data let us uncover the behavior and patterns of the development organization to prioritize and …
Agile improvement without change is impossible. Yet, most people think about change as big, slow and scary. But what if you could make it infinitely small and learn to evolve fast, almost as fast as some of the most adaptive microorganisms on earth?
In this conversation, Luke Hohmann discusses a new approach to conducting enterprise retrospectives that overcomes the limitations of traditional models used in Scrum projects. A scaled retrospective is a meeting where multiple Agile teams come together to identify critical organizational improvements and create a viable method for delivering and tracking …
Are you constantly tapped on the shoulder for answers? Tired of being the Google for your team? Or perhaps you are the new kid, having to ask a dozen different people to find answers to all your questions? These are the consequences of tribal knowledge. This talk discusses how to …
A team whose output is mainly “business as usual” – a team that subs and publishes stories and distributes them around a network – might not seem like it lends itself to Agile processes. A team already somewhat cynical about meetings, agendas, phone calls and so on might not seem …
