Early space missions hardly seem like a place to get inspiration about Agile software development, but the first probes sent to the moon successfully used a number of Agile principles. In this short 30-minute talk, we will look at the historical usage of these principles in important endeavors of the past and see how historical insight and understanding of the ways Agile can help us develop great software today.

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All software development projects have finite resources, so they require making tradeoffs and prioritizing work. There are all kinds of ways to prioritize but without an intentional process, most organizations default to WYTL (whoever yells the loudest). Cost of delay is a way to consider the impact of time on the delivery of features and provides a way to discuss the economic impact of ordering work in different ways.

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For many teams, the Sprint is the core iterative unit that delivers working software to the customer. In this session we are going to look at practices and approaches that will help your team get the most value out of Sprints while avoiding common pitfalls and anti-pattern

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Everyone is talking about Generative AI today. However, what is it? And how does it apply to Agile and Software Development? Aaron Blythe will walk through what Google Cloud has to offer for Generative AI with a focus on what it can do for Agile Teams and the software they develop.

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In this session we are going to walk through the Agile Values & Principles, discuss the importance of various principles, and talk about how easy or hard they are to follow in our situation. The talk is interactive so we need participants to answer questions in the polls that we'll aggregate and discuss.

If you know someone who needs a non-technical introduction to Agile, this is a great talk to invite them to join, but it will be just as useful for people with Agile experience looking for ways to make improvements and looking for ways to think more deeply about improving the way they work.

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Agile software development is full of interesting paradoxes. Your ability to understand these, will go a long ways in determining how successfully you can operate in an Agile environment. In this talk, we are going to look at several of these seeming contradictions and see what we can learn from them that will help us improve the effectiveness of our teams.

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Agile Principle #3 says, "Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale." Why does this matter? What's the big deal about delivering software on a shorter timescale. In this very short session, we'll be premiering a new Agile cartoon that you can use to help your team understand the importance of this principle.

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Selenium is a wonderful tool, but many ways to use it that work well when you have 5 tests, start to break down when you are dealing with a large application with 5,000 tests. In this session we will look at examples of how to write code that uses Selenium effectively even when dealing with a very large number of tests. We will also look at ways to make our testing code more readable even for non-developers, so if you have an interest in how Selenium can be used, you’ll probably find the discussion easy to follow even if you don’t write code yourself.

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While the Agile Manifesto was written for teams, organizations can work with or against agility. In this session, we will look at how organizations can grow to leverage the agility that Agile brings to teams and how organizational-level agility can be achieved.

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Are you working on a product or a project? What is the difference and why does it matter? In this session we are going to look at the difference between the project approach to creating software and the product approach and discuss why the Agile Principles will push many teams to move away from projects and toward products.

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