Better Software West - Conference Grid Schedule

Sunday, June 4

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast—7:30am–8:30am

Registration Desk Hours—7:30am–10:00am

8:30 AM

Certified Scrum Product Owner (2–Day)

Sanjiv Augustine

Agile Tester Certification (2–Day)

Rob Sabourin

Fundamentals of Agile Certification—ICAgile (2–Day)

Jeffery Payne

Fundamentals of DevOps Certification—ICAgile (2–Day)

Tom Stiehm

Certified ScrumMaster Training (2–Day)

Bob Payne

Software Tester Certification—Foundation Level (3–Day)

Dawn Haynes

Leading SAFe–SAFe Agilist Certification Training (2–Day)

Chip Loving

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Training Classes Continue—1:00pm–5:00pm

4:00 PM

Registration Desk Hours—4:00pm–6:00pm

Monday, June 5

7:00 AM

Registration Desk Hours—7:00am–4:30pm

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast—7:30am–8:30am

8:30 AM

Multi-Day Training Classes Continue—8:30am–5:00pm

Full-day Tutorials

Half-day Tutorials

Git and GitHub for Developers and Testers Preview

Wilson Mar, JetBloom

Great Product Design with User Story Mapping

Jeff Patton, Jeff Patton & Associates

Building Continuous Delivery Pipelines: A Workshop

Ken Mugrage, ThoughtWorks

Facilitation Skills for All: Create Engaging Meetings

Tricia Broderick, Agile For All

Jake Calabrese, Agile For All

Plan, Architect, and Implement Test Automation within the Lifecycle Preview

Mike Sowers, TechWell Corp.

Principles and Practices of Lean Software Development Preview

Ken Pugh, Ken Pugh, Inc.

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Half-day Tutorials

Agile Risk Management

Philip Lew, XBOSoft

Moss Drake, Dentist Management Corporation

IoT Testing Workshop

Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA

Acceptance Test-Driven Development Preview

Ken Pugh, Ken Pugh, Inc.

Help Retain Knowledge: Increase Engagement to Achieve Learning

Tricia Broderick, Agile For All

4:30 PM

Registration Desk Hours—Closes at 4:30pm

Tuesday, June 6

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast—7:30am–8:30am

Registration Desk Hours—7:30am–5:00pm

8:30 AM

Multi-Day Training Classes Continue—8:30am–4:30pm

Full-day Tutorials

Half-day Tutorials

Stop Saying DevOps and Start Applying Continuous Delivery Principles

Max Griffiths, ThoughtWorks

Elise McCallum, ThoughtWorks

The Architecture of Microservices Preview

Mark Richards, Independent Consultant

Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders

Bob Galen, Zenergy Technologies

Thinking Inside the Box – Root Cause Analysis with The Six Boxes

James Waletzky, Crosslake

What DevOps Means for Testers

Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.

Advanced Test Automation in Agile Development

Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com

Improve the Mobile User Experience (UX): Keep Your Users Coming Back

Philip Lew, XBOSoft

Lean/Agile Data Driven Decisions Demystified

Larry Maccherone, Independent Consultant

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Tutorials Continue (1:00pm–4:30pm)

Half-day Tutorials

Agile Project Failures: Root Causes and Corrective Actions

Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.

Docker Fundamentals Jumpstart Preview

Ali Hussain , Flux7

The Tester’s (New) Role in Agile Development

Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com

Leading Change: Even If You’re Not in Charge

Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA

Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions

Ryan Ripley, Independent Consultant

Statistics in Big Data Analysis: Beyond Counting

Ken Johnston, Microsoft

Eun Chang, Microsoft

4:30 PM

Welcome Reception—4:30pm–5:30pm

Wednesday, June 7

7:00 AM

Registration Desk Hours—7:00am–5:00pm

7:30 AM

Continental Breakfast—7:30am–8:30am

8:30 AM

Stamp Out Agile and DevOps Bottlenecks Preview

Tanya Kravtsov, Audible

10:00 AM

Modern Evolutionary Software Architectures

Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks

11:00 AM

Networking Break in the Expo—11:00am–11:30am

11:30 AM

ITP1

Overcome Agile Performance Challenges & Scale to Meet Increasing User Demands

Doug McAfee, Apica

ITP2

Achieving DevOps Success: Enabling Continuous Delivery Goals through Application Integration

Doug Bass, Go2Group

Projects & Teams

Going Mobile

Test & QA

Agile Leadership

Agile Techniques

Agile Requirements

Adopting DevOps

DevOps Design & Architecture

BW1

From Monoliths to Services: Paying Your Technical Debt Preview

David Litvak

BW2

Mobile Testing: Challenges and Solutions

Philip Lew, XBOSoft

BW3

Notes from the Test Management Battlefield Preview

Tanya Kravtsov, Audible

AW1

Transitioning to Agile Leadership

Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA

AW2

The Future of Scrum

Dave West, Scrum.org

AW3

Storytelling Techniques for Better Requirements

Jeff Howey, Leading Agile

DW1

Demystifying DevOps Adoption

Adam Auerbach, Lincoln Financial Group

DW2

Architectural Patterns for an Efficient Delivery Pipeline

Abraham Marin-Perez, Equal Experts

12:30 PM

Lunch in the Expo—Meet the Speakers

1:30 PM

ITP3

The DevOps Gap: Data as Code

Adam Bowen, Delphix

ITP4

Getting Started with Service Virtualization

Grigori Trofimov, Parasoft

Projects & Teams

Going Mobile

Test & QA

Agile Leadership

Agile Techniques

Agile Requirements

Adopting DevOps

DevOps Design & Architecture

BW4

The PM's Guide to Team Dynamics

Julie Gardiner, CA Technologies

BW5

Shave Mobile Development Time and Cost with Xamarin

Dave Todaro, Ascendle

BW6

Move Your Selenium Testing to the Cloud

Anshul Sharma, Emmi Solutions

AW4

Why Agile Works—and How (Not) to Screw It Up!

Perry Reinert, Independent Consultant

AW5

Football and Agile: Like Peanut Butter and ? Preview

Bob Galen, Zenergy Technologies

Josh Anderson, Broadvine

AW6

Finding the 'Seams': Making User Stories Smaller Preview

Mitch Goldstein, Summa

DW3

Implement DevOps Like a Unicorn—Even If You’re Not One Preview

Mason Leung, Grand Rounds

DW4

Integrate Security into DevOps

Hasan Yasar, Software Engineering Institute

2:45 PM

ITP5

Accessibility Testing: Taming the Beast

Dylan Barrell, Deque Systems

ITP6

Shifting Left – Evolution of Automation

Michael Faulise, tap | QA

Projects & Teams

User Experience

Test & QA

Agile Leadership

Agile Techniques

Improving the Process

Adopting DevOps

DevOps Design & Architecture

BW7

Is Your Project Doomed from the Start?

Lisa Calkins, Exadel

BW8

Improving Profitability through Accessibility

Michael Durrant, Independent Consultant

BW9

Drive Product Improvements with Telemetry

Ken Johnston, Microsoft

AW7

Agile Leadership Strategies: Winning the War on Complexity Preview

Derek W. Wade, Kumido Adaptive Strategies

AW8

From Scrum to Kanban: Our Journey

Scott MacIntyre, Capital One

AW9

Software Craftsmanship in an Agile Environment

Chris McKenzie, Parametric Portfolio Associates

DW5

You Can’t Buy DevOps … You Have to Sell It

Ken Mugrage, ThoughtWorks

DW6

Microservices and Docker: Foundation for a New Generation of Applications

Avantika Mathur, Electric Cloud

3:45 PM

Networking Break in the Expo—3:45pm–4:15pm

4:00 PM

Lightning Strikes the Keynotes

Lee Copeland, TechWell Corp.

5:30 PM

Expo Reception—5:30pm–6:30pm

Thursday, June 8

7:30 AM

Registration Desk Hours—7:30am–3:00pm

Continental Breakfast—7:30am–8:30am

8:30 AM

Big Data: The Magic to Attain New Heights

Ken Johnston, Microsoft

10:00 AM

ITP7

Setting the Foundation: Building a Continuous Delivery Strategy

Jamie Moore, Mobile Labs

ITP8

Project Forecasting: Hazy Planning Clears Up with Portfolio for JIRA

Amanda Babb, Praecipio Consulting

Projects & Teams

Design & Code

Test Automation

Agile Implementation

Agile Techniques

Improving the Team

Continuous Delivery

DevOps & Testing

BT1

Finding Efficiencies in Your Development Lifecycle

Melissa Tondi, Disrupt Testing

BT2

Application Resiliency: Keys to Planning for IoT and the Cloud Preview

Steven Woodward, Cloud Perspectives

BT3

Why You Shouldn’t Automate – And Why You Will Anyway Preview

Kevin Pyles, Domo

AT1

The Agile Dojo: Shiny Toy or Best Idea Ever? Preview

Francie Van Wirkus, Francie Van Wirkus

AT2

Five XP Practices for Agile Development

David Bernstein, To Be Agile

AT3

The T-Shaped Scrum Team: Get in Shape for Your Future

Mary Thorn, Ipreo

DT1

Continuous Delivery of Innovation and Quality

Stacy Kirk, QualityWorks Consulting Group, LLC

DT2

Continuous Testing in DevOps Preview

Michael Hackett, LogiGear Corp

11:00 AM

Networking Break in the Expo—11:00am–11:30am

11:30 AM

ITP9

Fix Fast, Go Fast, Shift Left, Shift Right: Perfecting the DevOp Quality Process

Uzi Eilon, Perfecto

Business Analysis & Requirements

Design & Code

Estimating

Agile Implementation

Agile Techniques

Improving the Team

Continuous Delivery

DevOps & Testing

BT4

RAMP: Requirements Authors Mentoring Program Preview

John Terzakis, Intel

BT5

Six Ways to Improve Class Design for Better Software

Max Guernsey, Net Objectives

BT6

The #NoEstimates Movement

Ryan Ripley, Independent Consultant

AT4

Experience Agile Emergence through Sketch Comedy

John Krewson, Sketch Development Services

AT5

Visual Management Gone Wild

Nichole Vanderlaan, Amway Corporation

AT6

Adapting Your Organization and Teams for Agile

Nir Szilagyi, PayPal

DT3

Pipeline as Code: A Model for Scaling CI/CD Preview

Dan Petit, ServiceMaster

DT4

Scaling Automated Tests: Choosing an Appropriate Subset

Manoj Pahuja, GoDaddy

Daniel Clayton, GoDaddy

12:30 PM

Lunch in the Expo—Meet the Speakers

1:30 PM

Business Analysis & Requirements

Personal Excellence

The Cloud

Agile Implementation

Agile Techniques

Agile Test & QA

Continuous Delivery

DevOps & Risk

BT7

Improv(e) Your Requirements

Damian Synadinos, Ineffable Solutions

BT8

Happy and Productive Teams: A Divine Saga

Matti Klasson, King Digital Entertainment

BT9

The Rise of the Purpose-Driven Multi-Cloud

Brad Schick, Skytap

AT7

Agile Release Planning: The Middle Time Frame

Sarah Harper, Cerner Corporation

AT8

Agile at the Intersection of Mobile, Cloud, and the Internet of Things

Don MacIntyre, Scrum Etc.

AT9

Include Automated Testing in Your Definition of Done

Angie Jones, Twitter

DT5

DevOps: The Key to Quality-Driven Development

Gajan Pathmanathan, Quicken Loans

DT6

Metrics to Assess Risk in DevOps Preview

Bill Dickenson, CAST Software

2:30 PM

Networking Break in the Expo—2:30pm–3:00pm

3:00 PM

Business Analysis & Requirements

Personal Excellence

The Cloud

Scaling Agile

Agile Metrics

Agile Test & QA

DevOps & Regulation

DevOps & Embedded

BT10

Impact Maps: Let Your Goals Drive Your Product Features

Mathias Eifert, Excella Consulting

BT11

Your Resume is Now What You Do on GitHub

Wilson Mar, JetBloom

BT12

Sprint Zero on Your Enterprise Cloud Journey

Chris Haddad, Karux, LLC

AT10

Guiding Cultural Adoption of Agile at Scale

Ebenezer Ikonne, Cox Automotive

AT11

Setting and Measuring Individual Performance in Agile Teams Preview

Tina Rusnak, First Class Agile, LLC

AT12

Agile Test Automation for Data-Centric Applications Preview

Lynn Winterboer, Winterboer Agile Analytics

Cher Fox, Fox Consulting

DT7

DevOps and Regulatory Compliance—Like Oil and Water or Peanut Butter and Jelly?

Brandon Carlson, Lean TECHniques, Inc.

DT8

DevOps in an Embedded and Regulated Environment

Arjun Comar

4:15 PM

Identify Development Pains and Resolve Them with Idea Flow

Janelle Klein, Open Mastery

5:30 PM

Agile Leadership Summit Reception—5:30pm–7:30pm

Friday, June 9

7:30 AM

Registration Desk Hours—7:30am–3:00pm

Summit Continental Breakfast—7:30am–8:30am

8:30 AM

Agile Leadership Summit

Agile Leadership Summit—8:30am–4:00pm

8:45 AM

SMT1

Impact over Progress: Learning from Evidence over Following the Process

David Hussman, DevJam

10:45 AM

SMT2

The Triumph of Simplicity, Discipline, and Clarity

Paul Hammond, eBay

11:45 AM

Summit Lunch

12:45 PM

SMT3

Leadership Coaching Dojo: A Chance to Practice What You Preach

Bob Galen, Zenergy Technologies

2:30 PM

SMT4

Agile Leadership in the Public Sector

Todd Holden, Tennessee Department of Transportation

Conference Schedule

Sunday, June 4

Monday, June 5

Tuesday, June 6

Wednesday, June 7

Thursday, June 8

Friday, June 9