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A/B Testing + Continuous Delivery = Everyday Product Launches
Nellwyn Thomas discusses how Etsy is using A/B testing, how Etsy's data-driven culture has evolved over time and how continuous delivery and big data can coexist.
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Careful with Those People Skills: You'll Poke Somebody's Eye Out!
Angela Harms keynotes on the importance of improving relationship and communication through empathetic listening, authentic connection and compassion rather than applying practices blindly.
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Jackstones: The Journey to Mastery
Dan North describes some of the many facets of craftsmanship using examples of mastery from various fields and tries to figure out exactly what is programmers’ craft.
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The Tools We’ve Built to Test a Game Engine
Dmytro Mindra discusses the tools and practices used for a game engine: Unit Testing and Test automation, Unity Runtime Test Framework, Continuous Integration, Game Test Framework, Performance Tests.
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It's Never Too Late to Fight Your Legacy
Máté Nádasdi presents how Ustream uses unit testing and continuous integration for the front-end to ensure the website’s stability and growth.
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Test Driven JavaScript Development That Feels Great
Toby Ho shows how TDD for JavaScript can be fun, providing tips and tricks on how to keep the TDD experience fast, flowing, and enjoyable.
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CoderDojo and Self Organization
Bill Liao keynotes on the scale-free self-organizing systems implemented by CoderDojo and how they can be used by other consumer software organizations that wants to achieve significant reach.
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Organizational Change Myths - Introduction and Sustainability
Linda Rising challenges organizational myths like "it's enough to have smart people" or "just have a transition plan and explain it" and it will work out, introducing and sustaining new ideas.
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Why Superman Is Not a Good Agile Team Member
Karen Siers outlines the difficulties encountered by a developer switching from a waterfall or cowboy coding environment to a collaborative Agile style.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flexible Scope
Gojko Adzic shows how to convince people to embrace flexible scope, not only for startup environments but for big enterprise projects as well.
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How WebMD Maintains Operational Flexibility with NoSQL
Rajeev Borborah, Matthew Wilson discuss using NoSQL at WebMD -architecture, benefits, roadmap-, with details on caching and key-value storage implementation behind a few of the WebMD applications.
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Deployed in 60 Minutes: Increasing Production Deployments from Six Months to Every Hour
Sponsored by Twilio. Matt Makai explores why deployments are difficult and shows solutions with case studies on how other organizations cut their production deployment times down from months to hours.