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The Bold, New Extreme programming Experiment; Now in its 9th Year
Brian Spears shares his company's experience adopting and evolving extreme programming over 9 years.
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Agile Project Metrics
The presentation shows how to project realistic completion dates based on empirical observations based on Velocity for iterative methods and on Cumulative Flow for non-iterative methods.
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Metrics in an Agile World
Metrics at every level of the Agile organization receive scrutiny: Measuring value, team performance, progress, quality, and even code design attributes will be taken into consideration.
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When it Just HAS to Work
This talk gives practical tips for adopting an agile approach to planning, team interactions and risk management. When the culture shifts, teams achieve goals sooner and safety is greatly enhanced.
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Deliberate Practice in Software Development
This talk covers Deliberate Practice in Software Development, a.k.a. the theory behind craftsmanship. Areas covered include nature vs nurture, the value of practice, & elements of deliberate practice.
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I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It
Agile came from small, colocated projects in the 1990s. Agile development now sits in a larger landscape and should be viewed accordingly. This talk discusses the new, larger agile development space.
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Agile by the Numbers: What People Are Really Doing in Practice
This talk summarizes the results of 4 years of industry surveys around agile technique adoption and effectiveness. Reality can be very different from the rhetoric in mailing lists, articles and books.
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Integration Tests Are a Scam
Integration tests are a scam, they burden you with long-running, fragile, hard-to-understand test suites. Learn the two-pronged attack that solves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests.
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Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Dave Nicolette and Karl Scotland try to introduce non-technical managers to one of the most popular Agile development techniques: Test-Driven Development (TDD).
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Principles and Practices of Lean-Agile Software Development
Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners.
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Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams
Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum.
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Technical Lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven
Craig Smith and Paul King present their experiments with new Agile ideas leading them to better results, increased productivity and quality.