Team change is inevitable, especially when your company is hiring like crazy or when it is shrinking. Your teams might grow bigger and split. Some people might leave and then your teams merge together. What feels like… More →
If Waterfall development represents one extreme of trying to plan ahead and Agile represents doing more planning just in time, what is the role of roadmaps in an Agile world? In this talk we look at the Agile principles… More →
Agility starts (and possibly ends) with a mindset. With so many agile frameworks out there, some larger than others, how do you choose what is right for you? What heuristics do you use when choosing practices to… More →
"If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time." ~ Patrick Lencioni This is going to be a 30-minute… More →
One of the hallmarks of DevOps is making it possible to quickly and safely deploy new functionality to production. Doing so safely is dependent on a protective suite of automated tests that can check for any regressions… More →
Ted Lasso may be a fictional coach, but his coaching — imbued with humility and inquiry — is an example for anyone in real life. In the eponymously named hit series, Lasso — a head coach of a championship American… More →
Extreme Programming was born out of efforts to take beneficial practices in software development and "turn the dials to 11." Code reviews done in an extreme way turned into pair programming. Testing done in an extreme… More →
Flight Levels take off - literally. More and more organisations are moving away from local agile sub-optimisation. They are using Flight Levels to enable the entire organisation to act agile in the market. In this… More →
What does a cult that clears runways in the forest and wears coconuts like headphones have to do with Agile? You’ll find out in this talk that is a refresher of the foundation of Agile with a focus on the why behind all… More →
In this session, we are going to look at the differences between estimating and forecasting. We will start out looking at examples of sizing work to make sure there aren’t hidden parts and then look at estimation… More →