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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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Managing Resistance to Change
Jason Little and Andrew Annett explain different behavior models helping to understand resistance to change, where it comes from and how to encourage the desired behaviors.
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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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Ubiquitous Testing - Testing Is Too Important to Leave to the End
Yehoram Shenhar and Alistair McKinnell present a way of doing testing having every team member involved in planning, estimating, and defining tests, testability being an architectural system attribute
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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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Driving Towards An Agile Culture
Lawrence Ludlow and Susan Smart organize a panel to answer questions related to introducing Agile into organizations, trying to find out the actions, impediments and benefits of such an endeavor.
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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.
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Lean Data Architecture: Minimize Investment, Maximize Value
Manvir Singh Grewal and Brandon Byars propose a business intelligence workflow along with Lean principles and practices for implementing a data warehouse and reporting capability.