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Yanking Business into Testing – with Lots of Vegetables
Gojko Adzic, Lukas Oberhuber discuss how the thinking around the role of tests and testing evolved, the problems the team faced and the decisions they took to overcome technical and cultural issues.
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Lessons from Building and Scaling LinkedIn
Jay Kreps discusses the evolution of LinkedIn's architecture and lessons learned scaling from a monolithic application to a distributed set of services, from one database to distributed data stores.
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Can Technology Innovation Save The New York Times?
Marc Frons discusses the New York Times’ digital subscription model. Rajiv Pant shares their experiences transitioning to continuous delivery, and using NodeJS, Scala, cloud and big data.
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Climbing Out of a Crisis Loop: How a Critical BBC Back-end Team Reigned in a Workflow Crisis-to-crisis Cycle
Rafiq Gemmail and Katherine Kirk tell the story of a BBC team which worked out of a severe crisis loop by bending the Agile 'rules' and combining multiple Agile and JFDI 'methods'.
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Between Fluffy Bunnies and Command & Control: Agile Adoption in Practice
Benjamin Mitchell shares experiences gained working with teams over the last five years, highlighting mistakes that were made following simplistic guidance and outlining key examples that worked.
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Accelerating Agile: Hyper-performing without the Hype
Dan North shares insight on how really high-performing teams work, the patterns and ideas being genuine experiences from practitioners. This is Agile in actuality. Agile is an attitude, not a rulebook
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People over Process: Applying It in Real World Software Development
Glen Ford shares from his technical experience in industry, and particularly from his learning at zeebox, Unibet and BBC R&D over the last few years - focusing on practical application.
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Spock: A Highly Logical Way To Test
Howard Lewis Ship overviews Spock, a testing framework for the JVM.
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Behavior-driven Development
Liz Keogh shows why conversations are the most important aspect of BDD, how examples can help you discover things early, and why discovery is an inevitable part of software development.
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The 90 Minute Guide to Agile – What, Why, How
Allan Kelly explains What Agile is, Why companies are adopting it in increasing numbers and How it works, providing suggestions on how to start an Agile initiative and how to do things right.
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Breaking News and Breaking Software
Andy Hume shares details of the processes and approach used by The Guardian in developing and implementing quality in their front-end software.
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Sprints, Scala, Scale & Serendipity: Blue Sky Thinking and Washing the Pots on the Road to Success at a Technology Startup
Ian Brookes and Rob Strange recount the journey and relationship of a Tech start-up and its software development partner, with the milestones and millstones along the way.