Dale Emery

DHE

Since 1980, Dale Emery has worked in both IT organizations and software product development companies as a developer, manager, process steward, trainer, and consultant. He helps people apply the agile values of communication, feedback, simplicity, courage, and respect to software development. Dale's combination of deep technical expertise and extensive organizational development experience makes him particularly effective in working with software teams. In 2007 Dale received the Ward Cunningham Gentle Voice of Reason Award, which the Agile Alliance created to recognize Dale’s unique contribution to the agile community. Dale's personal mission is to help people create joy, value, and meaning in their work. Learn more about Dale at dhemery.com

Speaker Presentations

Monday, November 11, 2013 - 1:00pm

Half-day Tutorials

The Developer’s Guide to Test Automation

Your shrinking project deadlines are increasing the need for automated tests—but, simultaneously, reducing the time available for writing them. The system requirements are continually changing. The implementation is changing. You spend more and more time maintaining old tests, leaving less time to write new ones. The tests take longer and longer to run. And when they fail, the problem is as likely to be in the tests as in the system.