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Sustainable Test-Driven Development
Steve Freeman offers advice on writing good tests that make development easier avoiding dead weight code that is hard to maintain. Topics: readability, complex data, diagnostics, and flexibility.
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From Agile Development to Agile Operations
Stuart Charlton talks about the opportunity brought by cloud computing to introduce agile methods and processes to the operational side of IT, helping to bridge the development and operations worlds.
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Project-Oriented SOA
Leo Shuster shows how to combine service architecture and lifecycle management, funding, SOA governance and metrics in order to develop individual projects and an SOA initiative in the same time.
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Dave Hoover and Paul Pagel on Apprenticing to Mastery
Dave Hoover and Paul Pagel discuss the patterns of behavior they've observed in successful apprenticeships.
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Jesse Fewell on Growing PMI using Agile
The session is an experience report that tells the PMI Agile Forum story in roughly chronological order.
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Navigating The Rapids:Real-World Lessons in Adopting Agile
This talk investigates technical issues encountered when moving to an Agile process.
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7 Fundamentals of Mission-Critical Service Testing
Schneider on 7 service testing fundamentals: thoroughly testing, large amounts of realistic data, security testing, high productivity, tracking test results, realistic loads, and proper governing.
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Agile Infrastructure
This talk outlines innovations in tools, process, planning and culture emerging at the front lines of continuous delivery.
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From Concept to Product Backlog
Gerard Meszaros believes that we need to find the proper balance between upfront planning and decision deferring, explaining what should be going on from product conception to the user stories backlog
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Automating Operations with Spring Batch and Spring Integration
Dave Syer and Mark Fisher demo using Spring Batch and Integration for real life situations where automation can save both operators and developers a lot of time by running automated batch jobs.
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Brian Marick on 4 Challenges and 5 Guiding Values of Agile Software Development
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
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SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.