Agile Basics

Agile Development Practices Explained

Agile Development Practices Explained

Agile is all about values and not a set of prescriptive 1s and 0s, even for a development team. There are quite a few practices that align to those values and allow the development team to transition to agility in delivery of software.

This session focuses on practices that correlate to the values, how they apply and why we do them. It takes a view from both an individual engineer perspective as well as an engineering manager. It discusses how to apply these practices from an individual team to scaling across multiple teams. This is a journey where the destination is to continually adapt these practices Scott’s talk is based on experience in building software large scale software for the cloud and tooling for developers.

Scott Densmore

James brings over 30 years’ experience in the software industry. At Conga, James leads the development of the full suite of Conga’s products. Prior to Conga, James led the development of CenturyLink’s cloud management platform and held leadership roles at Microsoft and ThoughtWorks. Earlier in his career he co-founded Object Mentor Inc with Robert C. Martin, a consulting firm that specialized in training and mentoring their clients in C++, Java, Object-Oriented Programming, and Agile Methodologies. James holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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