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What's Surgery Got to Do with Improving Software Practices?Many practices of early surgeons—trial and error, lack of standards, failure to measure and share outcomes, and more—bear a striking resemblance to software professionals and practices today. Ed Kit looks back at the important lessons learned from more than 150 years of key improvements that surgeons adopted and how these lessons relate to our young industry.
Five Things Your Development Teams Should be Doing NowIn this ever-changing world of software development, it's important to keep up with technologies, methodologies, and trends. This video covers five practices that your team can utilize to accelerate software delivery.
Mission Critical AgilityJeff Norris explores key principles of agility from a fresh and entertaining perspective by drawing on inspiring stories of people who demonstrated agile work practices long before anyone had heard of a ScrumMaster. Come take a break from the rulebooks and taxonomies of the modern agile zoo and reflect on core traits that we all should embrace as we seek better ways of working.
Agile Requirements Management with Keith JohnsonKeith Johnson is vice president of product development at Jama Software. in this Sticky ToolLook interview, he discusses some of the changes that agile development has brought to the requirements management process.
Agile Brushstrokes: The Art of Choosing an Agile Transition StyleJoshua Kerievsky maps agile transitions to art styles and identifies elements that lead to success or failure, offering an excellent perspective on the art of agile transitioning and what style(s) will work best for you.
Moving to an Agile Testing Environment: What Went Right, What Went WrongRay Arell read an agile project management book on a long flight to India, and, like all good reactionary development managers, he was sold. Join Ray on a retrospective of what went right and, more importantly, what went wrong.
Marine Corps Principles of LeadershipRetired Marine colonel and long-time test consultant Rick Craig describes how using the Marine Corps Principles of Leadership will help you become a better leader and, as a result, a better test manager or tester.
Large-Scale Exploratory Testing: Let's Take a TourJames Whittaker describes the tourist metaphor for this novel approach and demonstrates tours taken by test teams from various companies including Microsoft and Google. He presents results from numerous projects where the tours were used in critical-path production environments.
Transforming Your Test Culture One Step at a TimeWhether we develop software-based systems to create invoices, solve difficult physics problems, diagnose heart disease, or launch rockets, we've learned that nothing stays the same very long and software defects are inevitable. However, one thing has remained constant: The role and value of testing has been misunderstood by many in senior management. A Lockheed Martin Fellow since 2005, Tom Wissink describes steps undertaken at Lockheed Martin to change this culture of misunderstanding into a culture of appreciation, satisfaction, and excitement.
Testing on the Toilet: Revolutionizing Developer Testing at GoogleIn this keynote presentation by Bharat Mediratta and Antoine Picard, learn the story of Google's Testing on the Toilet's. This started from a deceptively simple idea to a company-wide cultural phenomenon that has received national acclaim.
A Christmas Carol: The Software Tester's VersionGrab some hot cocoa, sit back, and watch this software tester's take on A Christmas Carol by the Grove Players.