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Experience Report: Growing eXtreme Programming Teams
Rachel Davies reports on how Unruly Media is using XP and how they have adapted to increasing scalability needs.
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The Art of the Retrospective
Chris Smith provides practical advice for sprint retrospectives, gathering information and identifying root causes of both problems and successes, and addressing issues from a different perspective.
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Continuous Delivery in the Cloud
Robert Chatley discusses using the cloud to shorten the release cycle, to ensure scalability, and explains how to deploy to the cloud in a repeatable and reliable way.
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How to Narrow Down What to Test
Zsolt Fabok provides guidance on selecting those sections of code that are most likely to profit from automated testing and leaving out those where chances for errors are low.
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Writing Executable Specifications
Thomas Sundberg emphasizes the need for writing executable specifications demoing on example using Cucumber.
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Testing the Way to Faster Releases
Amy Phillips shares how Songkick made the transition to Continuous Integration, the difficulties encountered, the cultural changes involved, some of the lessons learnt and practical advice.
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Creating a Walking Skeleton
Paul Grenyer discusses why and how to create a Walking Skeleton - an implementation of the thinnest possible slice of real functionality that we can automatically build, deploy and test end-to-end.
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The Developer in Test
Dave Hart introduces the “developer in test” role more testing at the unit level and adding a level of testing between unit and system, and providing testing frameworks for regression system testing.
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Keynote: Embracing Uncertainty
Dan North discusses the need to embrace uncertainty of scope, technology, effort and structure, expecting the unexpectable and anticipating ignorance.
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Agile Transformations: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Wanda Marginean shares challenges and lessons learned during real cases of Agile transformations.
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Continuous Development, Growing Pains
John Stevenson presents Atlassian’s values, detailing how its culture formed and was maintained while growing over time.
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Project Management in an Agile World
Tony Willoughby discusses project manager’s role in an agile team focusing on resourcing, cost control, high-level scope management, risk management and wider communication with business stakeholders.