Agile + DevOps East 2022 - Teams & Leadership

Agile initiatives always begin with high expectations—accelerate delivery, meet customer needs, and improve software quality. The truth is that many agile projects do not deliver on some or all of these expectations. If you want help to ensure the success of your agile project or to get an agile project back on track, this tutorial is for you. Jeffery Payne discusses the most common causes of agile project failure and how you can avoid these issues or mitigate their damaging effects. Poor project management, ineffective requirements development, failed communications, software development...

Far too many scaling concepts require tremendous overhead and turn into something more lightweight than their original intention out of necessity. How can we keep from having to go backwards in out scaling and maintain a lightweight approach from the start? Using [email protected] as the initial framework, many organizations can simply keep their known structures while enjoying increased collaboration and speed to decision-making. As part of this session, attendees will enjoy hearing about how they can start out a scaled Agile approach the easy way while also taking a potentially bulky approach...

When I began my journey as a QA Specialist nearly a decade ago, I had a lot to learn about testing, but the more sprint meetings I attended, the more it felt like the Dungeons & Dragons table. It turns out that fighting hordes of the undead and hunting down software bugs have more than a few things in common. What did playing a rogue with a clumsy streak teach me about software development? In this interactive session, I will explore three crossover strategies gaming taught me about the quest for quality, how to better partner with your QA team, and creative ways to spend your time...

We get it, there is tremendous value in our organizations and customers embracing DevOps practices. We've seen the need, we've experienced the struggle to tranform over the past decade and we're now reaping the benefits. But how do we help our coworkers and customers who may be stuck in low-gear? What are effective strategies to coax them to embrace a DevOps mindset?

Join us for this quick keynote where we share observations about the transformation of the networking industry and how it is changing through enabling new skills and product functionality. If you feel as if you're...

If you are a supervisor or a team leader, you know how difficult it is to manage distributed teams with constant pressure to perform and deliver quality product/service on time. This is especially true for offshore teams who are in different timezones, regions, cultures and working styles. If you do not put in effort to come up with effective strategies to manage these teams, it may eventually lead to low team morale, disgruntled employees, and most importantly poor performance. This is the reason why companies are investing millions of dollars in training, organizational and team...