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Deliberate Practice in Software Development
This talk covers Deliberate Practice in Software Development, a.k.a. the theory behind craftsmanship. Areas covered include nature vs nurture, the value of practice, & elements of deliberate practice.
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I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It
Agile came from small, colocated projects in the 1990s. Agile development now sits in a larger landscape and should be viewed accordingly. This talk discusses the new, larger agile development space.
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Agile by the Numbers: What People Are Really Doing in Practice
This talk summarizes the results of 4 years of industry surveys around agile technique adoption and effectiveness. Reality can be very different from the rhetoric in mailing lists, articles and books.
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Integration Tests Are a Scam
Integration tests are a scam, they burden you with long-running, fragile, hard-to-understand test suites. Learn the two-pronged attack that solves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests.
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Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Dave Nicolette and Karl Scotland try to introduce non-technical managers to one of the most popular Agile development techniques: Test-Driven Development (TDD).
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Principles and Practices of Lean-Agile Software Development
Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners.
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Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams
Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum.
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Technical Lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven
Craig Smith and Paul King present their experiments with new Agile ideas leading them to better results, increased productivity and quality.
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Planning with a Large Distributed Team
Williams and Stout share their recent experience with a large distributed team, the planning hurdles they encountered and how they passed them, and their recommendation: avoid large distributed teams.
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Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption
Michael Mah analyzes the development process in 5 companies: 2 Agile (one of them BMC) and 3 classic. He presents the factors which contributed to the success of BMC's Agile adoption.
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Fostering Software Craftsmanship in a Corporate Setting
Scott talks about software craftsmanship represented by people responsible for their work, continuously learning, taking pride in their work, sharing knowledge and respecting professional standards.
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Extremely Short Iterations as a Catalyst for Effective Prioritization of Work
Mishkin Berteig presents how a 2-days iteration led to a crisis which in turn forced those involved to realize the importance and necessity of task prioritization.
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