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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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StormMQ – Cloud-based Message Queues
Ross Cooney presents a case study of how Smith Electric Vehicles uses StormMQ in production. StormMQ is a cloud-based provider of secure AMQP services.
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How We (Mostly) Moved from Java to Scala
Graham Tackley discusses how The Guardian switched all new development from Java to Scala, why they did that, what were the benefits and the problems, and why they did not choose Python+Django.
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From Small Beginnings to a Great Destination - AMQP 1.0
Carl Trieloff, Kim Palko and John Camilleri present how AMQP was born and how it has been embraced by various industries, and how it is used by RedHat and Green Energy.
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Keynote: Applying Design Thinking and Complexity Theory in Agile Organizations
Jean Tabaka discusses using design thinking and complexity theory in order to balance and Agile adoption.
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FamilySearch.org Case Study
Merlin Carpenter and Tim Stokes present the architecture of FamilySearch.org, a website and a system keeping track of historical data –birth, marriage, death, census records- of over 2 billion people.
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Brownfield to Green
Nat Pryce presents the reengineering effort made to transform a legacy system through incremental improvement, the development process implemented, the results and some takeaway lessons learned.
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Bushido, and the Art of Staying Sane in the Game Development Business
Lars Kroll Kristensen shares the lessons learned from the rise and fall of Runestone, lessons applied in another game development company, Unity Studios.
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Distributed Systems: What Nobody Told You
Shaneal Manek tells the story of how things can go wrong with a distributed system which turned into a success after incorporating appropriate tools for monitoring, analytics, logging, security.
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Running a Startup on Haskell
Bryan O'Sullivan presents a case study of a small startup that chose Haskell for its server-side code, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of using Haskell to quickly create a solid solution.
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Better is Better
Steve Freeman talks about environments he worked in, learning that being in a really effective environment changes what you can do, opening new possibilities, and it is a qualitative experience.