Achieving Agility w/ APIs at Chick-fil-A
At Chick-fil-A, we are laser-focused on scaling our technology infrastructure and processes while maintaining a high degree of business agility so that we can take advantage of unexpected opportunities. This […]
Applying the Serverless Mindset to Any Tech Stack
Serverless is a nebulous buzzword, and is often equated with Functions as a Service (FaaS) platforms like AWS Lambda. However, serverless is about something deeper, and in the end is […]
No Microservice Is An Island
You don’t deploy a single microservice. The journey to microservice architecture involves more than how code is written or applications are packaged. It’s about creating an interconnected ecosystem that keeps […]
The Observability Pipeline
The pervasiveness of cloud and containers has led to systems that are much more distributed and dynamic in nature. Highly elastic microservice and serverless architectures mean containers spin up on […]
Cutting Code Quickly
In this guided demo, we are going to look at 3 different techniques that are remarkably powerful in combination to cut through legacy code without having to go thru the […]
Remote Pair Programming: A Guide for Distributed Teams
Learn how to implement remote pair programming so that you can realize the benefits of pairing and address some challenges of distributed development.
Agile Transformation – What to do with managers?
This session describes the experiences of a manager who went through an agile transformation and explains how he became a leader in an agile organization.
You’re Not Failing Fast Enough: Tips & Tricks for an Agile Build System
In this session, Sarah Goff-Dupont discusses ways to shorten the feedback cycle related to system builds. She describes these techniques via examples.
Intro to Agile Requirements: User Stories, Backlogs and Beyond
This session from Agile 2015 shows a a common-sense approach to agile requirements that will help you reduce risk and deliver value.
Better Unit Testing with ApprovalTests, an open source library
Through both demos and explanation of theory, this session shows you how using ApprovalTests makes testing many types of objects more manageable.
Selling the Investment to Pay Down Technical Debt – The Code Christmas Tree
Sharing our experience in making code complexity and unit coverage visible in the hallway adjoining our team room and the conversations that happened around it. Not only did it help […]
Manager as Scrum Master
This session shares the story of how one organization adopted self-managing teams and the impact that change had on the roles of managers and scrum masters.
