Sep 14

9am PDT

Why Agile?

Agile Methods have taken software development by storm. Professionals are hoping to gain the efficiencies and quality that experts profess Agile methods provide. They are also looking for a higher quality working environment, including increased empowerment that Agile preaches. To have a chance of success in Agile, you must learn what Agile really is and not what the evangelist, consulting firms, and tool vendors want you to know.

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Sep 16

9am PDT

Test Driven Development

As teams constantly develop small incremental features by adding, modifying, refactoring, and re-designing existing software, many challenges emerges with each and every iteration. Among these challenges is ensuring previously delivered functionality is still correct and newly created functionality works as expected within a single iteration. Test Driven Development (TDD) can help address these issues with greater safety and confidence while supporting the team to create better quality software and simpler designs. TDD is built on a set of values that testing and quality are paramount, change is expected and both are constantly embraced.In this web seminar, we will discuss these benefits, the TDD Cycle, how to get started and challenges facing teams adopting TDD.

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Oct 13

9am PDT

Cargo Cult Agile

Agile software development is no longer a domain occupied solely by trend setting, trail blazing software shops, it has made the jump to the mainstream where it is being practiced in nearly ever industry and by every size of organization. But with its wider adoption, the underlying principles of Agile are often lost by teams, resulting in what we call ‘Cargo Cult Agile Teams’. These Cargo Cult Agile teams seem to do all of the right things, using all the right terms, but do not experience the amazing resulting benefits that other Agile teams do.This one hour presentation will explore how teams can successfully implement an Agile approach without unwittingly becoming one of the Agile transition victims we call Cargo Cult Agile teams. Has your team been attempting to implement an Agile approach with less than consistently successful results? Spend an hour to discover how you can begin to turn the ship around and head in the right direction.

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Oct 13

12pm PDT

Agile Requirements:  Not an Oxymoron

Misconceptions abound about how agile projects analyze and develop requirements. In practice, requirements are the basis for planning, developing and delivering agile projects.Agile requirements are congruent– they combine to form a sound and sensible union that drives successful delivery of business value.

YOU WILL LEARN:

• The agile method of developing requirements and how ‘traditional’ requirements practices are adapted on agile projects
• The value of requirements analysis on agile projects
• Ways in which requirement form the basis for planning on agile projects
• How effective agile teams collaborate around requirements

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