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Agile DevOps West Brainwriting: The Team Hack to Generating Better Ideas[presentation]
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Brainstorming has long been held as the best way to get ideas from teams. The purpose is to solicit large amounts of ideas in a short timeframe.

Chris Murman
Agile DevOps West Making the Jump from DevOps to DevSecOps[presentation]
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Organizations are moving to DevOps to build and deploy software more rapidly. But as they break down organizational silos to bring together testing, development, and operations, they often avoid or exclude security in their transformational efforts.

Alan Crouch
Agile DevOps West Distributed Scrum Teams Whack-a-Mole:
 Creative Solutions to 
Common Obstacles[presentation]
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Taking a newly formed distributed Scrum team from mediocre to high-performing has its share of challenges, including differences in language, culture, and time zones; a misunderstanding of Scrum; and the "us versus them" mentality.

Kimberly Andrikaitis
Agile DevOps West Hacks to Becoming a Mindful Agile Tester[presentation]
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Have you ever felt like you've been working on multiple tasks all day long, but at the end of the day when you review your work, you realize you haven’t accomplished anything concrete?

Raj Subrameyer
Agile DevOps West Using Component Testing for Ultra-Fast Builds[presentation]
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A best practice of software architecture is to design your applications into independent modules or components, with a published contract for interaction between components.

Timothy Cochran
Agile DevOps West 5 Common Types of Mobile App Bugs Found Using AI[presentation]
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Among all mobile apps, the current error rate is believed to be at 15 percent. With a thousand new apps launching daily and a constant increase of mobile devices, there’s a need for a scalable solution to create and maintain high-quality apps, without hassle.

Sandy Park
Agile DevOps West The Hard Part of Every Agile Transformation[presentation]
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When it comes to an agile transformation, going through the motions of adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level is easy.

Mike Cottmeyer
Agile DevOps West Exhaustion Is Not a Status Symbol [presentation]
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We set out to transform the world of work with agile, yet we've heard the Scrum sprint cycle described as a “hamster wheel,” an endless conveyor belt of backlog and sprint reviews that developers cannot escape. 

Melissa Boggs
Agile DevOps West Iterative versus Incremental: How Your Backlog Makes or Breaks Agility[presentation]
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Agile is an incremental and iterative approach to delivering value to our customers. But too often, we assume that both approaches are fundamentally equivalent.

Mathias Eifert
Agile DevOps West Postmodern Testing[presentation]
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If you want to speed up delivery while maintaining quality, this is the talk for you. Jason’s move from Microsoft to Google’s agile and DevOps-driven world was a shock. 

Jason Arbon
Agile DevOps West Mobbing, Pairing, Soloing, and Pipe Fires: A Personal History of Collaboration[presentation]
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Pair programming: the practice you love to hate! Twenty years after being introduced as part of Extreme Programming, the collaborative practice is still a thing.

Jeff Langr
Agile DevOps West How to Avoid Automation Framework Sinkholes[presentation]
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Test automation frameworks are constantly plagued by runaway costs and huge codebases that become maintenance nightmares. Successful automation frameworks are best defined under the “keep it simple, stupid” philosophy—KISS!

Laura Keaton
Agile DevOps West AWS Lambda: Best Practices and Common Mistakes[presentation]
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Serverless architectures relieve you of hardware and scaling setup concerns, and AWS Lambda functions are used by many organizations for serverless application development and automating DevOps tasks.

Derek Ashmore
Agile DevOps West The Lord of the Rings: DevOps Edition[presentation]
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Modern software delivery involves lean principles, DevOps practices, and of course tools. Implementing those elements in harmony will necessitate a change in how teams operate—more specifically, it will require a change in how managers think about teams.

Joseph Ours
Agile DevOps West Case Study: An Engineering-Focused, Scaled Agile Rollout at Standard & Poor's[presentation]
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A large company moves to agile, but when the going gets tough, they abandon all their agile processes and revert to old ways—which are now a combination of Scrum and waterfall—and delivery is worse than before they started.

Stan Guzik

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