Design Thinking & Agile
The design thinking project life-cycle has 6 well-defined stages. Mapping these stages onto a typical Agile development project shows when designers should conduct which UX activities.
Modern Continuous Delivery
The first product build specifically for Continuous Delivery pipelines came out over 10 years ago. The Continuous Delivery book came out 9 years ago. In the time since we’ve seen massive changes in the types of software we’re building, testing and deploying. Yet the way we think about pipelines hasn’t …
Agile Requires Excellence
This talk explains why technical excellence and operational excellence is required for being agile, and how to get there. You want to become agile. So you re-name some roles in your teams, do the meetings and rituals you found in the Scrum guide, run two-week sprints. But this is not …
Soft Skills for IT Teams
For the past 2 years I have seen firsthand the common issues that software development and IT teams in Bulgaria are facing. Teams miss their deadlines, they are slow in decision-making or don’t follow decisions, there is lack of trust and people don’t talk about their problems. This presentation shares …
Strategies For Solving Difficult Coding Problems
Even with the simplest of programming problems, a software developer can get stuck on code. It happens to engineers of all experience levels. This session will show you many strategies for getting unstuck. We will start by reframing the act of getting stuck as a positive. Then we present many …
Guide Refactoring With Behavioral Code Analysis
Many Java codebases contain code that is overly complicated, hard to understand, and hence expensive to change. It doesn’t have to be that way, and in this presentation you will see how easily obtained version-control data let us uncover the behavior and patterns of the development organization to prioritize and …