In 1925, Bruce Ingram was given a mummified hand with the words "Cursed be he who moves my body. To him shall come fire, water, and pestilence." Soon after receiving this grim gift, a mysterious fire burned down his house. Ingram rebuilt his house only to have it destroyed by water in a flood. Coincidence? You be the judge, but it was enough for Ingram who is said to have disposed of the hand and was able to keep his house in one piece after that.

In this talk we are going to look at some of the happenings surrounding the opening of Egyptian tombs that caused many people to believe they were cursed. From there we'll look at some of the coincidences around testing and talk about testing beliefs that can lead to "The Curse of the Testing Pyramid." Our goal is to look carefully at what type of return on investment we hope to get from testing and use that to drive the way we create and shape our tests.

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Description pending. Need a short description of 2 or 3 sentences as well as a longer description with some bio info. In a world where AI is transforming the way we work, Agile development remains a powerful methodology for managing complex, dynamic projects. However, working with AI introduces new challenges and opportunities that Agile teams must navigate. This talk will explore considerations for working with AI technology in an Agile team.

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What is DevOps an how can it help a software team bring agility to the development process? In this session we are going to look at what DevOps means and why it is a valuable tool in helping Agile teams deliver working software that delights the users. We'll also look at some of the ways that organizations try to implement DevOps in a diluted way that cancels out the very things that make it a powerful tool.

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Do you find your organization misses opportunities because of cross functional misunderstandings?

This workshop addresses the growing reliance on specialists and knowledge silos in organizations, which often leads to communication breakdowns and can be detrimental to successful strategies. By utilizing insights from the book "5th Discipline" and the technique of Causal Loop Diagramming, the workshop aims to preemptively solve these issues. It offers a deep dive into understanding complex adaptive systems within organizations, highlighting cause and effect patterns that improve the performance of typically separately managed systems.

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Featuring a newly finished Agile Cartoon that we'll be continuing our walk through all 12 Agile Principles,looking at Principle #7 - Working software is the primary measure of progress. Is this principle so obvious that it doesn't need to even be mentioned? We'll explore how teams sometimes let things other than working software become their primary measure of progress and talk about how to avoid that danger on your own team.

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