Beyond Whack-a-Mole Coaching – Using Data Analysis to Find High ROI Coaching Opportunities
Determining where to focus Agile Coaching and Training in a large “already Agile” Tech organization can feel a bit like playing Whack-a-Mole. With hundreds of Agile practices and mindsets to […]
Continuous Strategy for Enterprise User Experience Design
Scaling agile to enterprise-level products *and* creating a great user experience is almost never achieved, as evidenced by the many examples of enterprise software with mediocre to bad user experiences. […]
Scaling agile development across loosely coupled teams using microservice architecture
The topic of this talk came about naturally from a 6+ month project in collaboration between IBM Watson and IBM Research in which we had to find an efficient way […]
When Agile and Lean Converge – The IT Transformation at American Electric Power
Many organizations are using agile frameworks to enhance their solutions delivery. Others are leveraging lean to improve their processes and practices. But how many organizations have combined both a large […]
A Case Study in Failure: Portfolio Management in the Money Transfer Industry
150 project on-going at any one time, each have a 10 month timeline to delivery, and new projects are starting on a weekly basis…How much do you think gets done? […]
Elixir: a potion for building scalable, fault-tolerant systems
This session explores Elixir, shows how it can be used to build highly scalable, performant fault-tolerant systems and includes a demo of an Elixir application.
Developers Should Abandon Agile
Ron and Chet discuss their current views regarding Agile Software Development and how you can best operate within current “Agile” organizations and projects.
Agile Schizophrenia: Consistent Agile is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds
This session explores the behavioral purpose behind the practices, and asserts that once the behavior is achieved, the practices serve as a barrier to success, or at a minimum, a barrier to further process innovation.
True Tales of Antifragile Code
This session includes tales where powerful, risky, and unforeseen user-stories increased user productivity, opened new markets, or retained critical customers.
AMA: Gender and Sexuality
*AMA means Ask Me Anything.* The topic of diversity has exploded in the tech industry, but it’s left many questions in its wake. There are new acronyms to learn – […]
From DevOps to DevSecOps – Application security for a Lean/Agile/DevOps environment
This talk starts by introducing a DevSecOps manifesto and then a process model for achieving a “BUILD SECURITY IN” DevSecOps culture.
Building Strong Foundations… Underwriting Fannie Mae’s Agile Transformation.
This session focuses on Fannie Mae’s journey toward enterprise agility and the corresponding challenges, benefits and key learnings realized.
