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Introduction to Context Specification – Behavior-Driven Development
Philip Japikse discusses and demoes doing BDD with Context Specifications, then using MSpec to transform those specification into TDD code.
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A Regression Testing Framework for Financial Time-Series Databases
Roberto Salama presents a regression testing framework built at Morgan Stanley with FitNesse, Scala, and KDB/Q, and used to run over 10,000 regression tests.
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Building a Hybrid Cloud at Canadian Pacific
Stuart Charlton presents Canadian Pacific’s strategy for a modern IT: adopting hybrid cloud, introducing Agile/Lean development, automating everything, distributed data systems, RESTful integration.
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Dealing with Information Overload and Improving Effectiveness
Scott Hanselman advices on dealing with information overload: audit and sort info sources, schedule work sprints, turn off distractions, triaging the inbox, having a personal toolbox.
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Deliver Early - There Is No Excuse!
Jesper Boeg discusses why it is important to deliver software early, why it is difficult to do so, along with tools/tips/practices: shared vision, story maps, coaching, and others.
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Technical Debt - Why You Should Care
Felipe Rubim discusses several forms of technical debt, emphasizing that every member of the team should consider it, and suggesting taking concrete steps in measuring and reducing it.
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Agile/UX Panel
Jeremy Sutherland, Darius Kumana, Eewei Chen, Darci Dutcher, and Richard Muscat (moderator) discuss the relationship between Agile and UX design.
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Retrospectives: A Bit of Ceremony Can Be Useful
Aino Corry’s message is that if we skip retrospectives there will be problems that we don’t understand where they come from nor what to do to solve them.
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Decisions, Decisions
Dan North engages the audience into a discussion about the tradeoffs involved in making decisions regarding the team composition, development style, architecture, and deployment solutions.
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The Frustrated Architect
Simon Brown discusses the role of the software architect, challenging some of the current assumptions and trying to redefine it in the context of Agile development.
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Lean Startup: Why It Rocks Far More Than Agile Development
Joshua Kerievsky discusses Lean Startup -a disciplined, scientific and capital efficient method for discovering and building products and services that people love-, comparing it with Agile.
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Moving Back to Scrum and Scaling to Scrum of Scrums in Less than One Year
Rafael Maranzato tells the story of a team who initially failed to adopt Scrum, but they tried again, successfully adopting it and moving to Scrum of Scrums within one year.
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