Development and Test Metrics 101
This session will outline the most common metrics used for understanding flow and impediments in software development and test functions. By attending this session you will have a clear picture […]
DevOps Metrics 101
Are you looking for clarity on what really matters when measuring performance from a DevOps perspective? With so much data available, we’ll look at which metrics are the most useful […]
All Track Development
We all know the importance of product designers and developers working more closely together. One approach to achieving this is ‘dual-track delivery’. But we shouldn’t think of the tracks in […]
Agile for All (Agile is Caught Not Taught)
We strongly believe that ‘Agile is for Everyone’. For an agile transformation to succeed at scale, non-IT departments play a vital role to bring about a sustainable change. In this […]
Joining Forces: An Agile Experiment in Merging Teams
When teams are working well and firing on all cylinders, you don’t want to mess with them. But what happens when two such teams are merged into one for the […]
Scaling agile development across loosely coupled teams using microservice architecture
The topic of this talk came about naturally from a 6+ month project in collaboration between IBM Watson and IBM Research in which we had to find an efficient way […]
Teaching Agile: An Instructor’s Guide
You’ve been tasked with teaching agile. Perhaps it’s values and principles, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, or maybe a combination of all of these. Whether you’re a seasoned instructor, or you were […]
Reinventing Research: Agile in the Academic Laboratory
In a world of editable genomes and customizable cancer treatment, it’s time to reconsider how the academic lab operates in order to keep pace with rapidly advancing research. The Broad […]
Scaling at Food-tech Startup: Transformation Challenges, Lessons Learned and Growth
### Our scale-up Journey was a roller-coaster ride, Scrum to Waterfall to Agile I have been a Scrum Master for three years at food-tech startup in South Korea, one of […]
Continuous Delivery Requires Radical Change for Testers
What does testing and quality look like in a Continuous Delivery world? Who does what and how? Is there still a need for testers or do developers do all of […]
Should testers participate in code reviews?
Peer review can be a major contributor to code quality, but the practice is usually ill-defined and excludes some team members who can make a huge difference – those whose […]
Agile Road Trip, Lessons from a Coach at Toyota
While Toyota is known for the Lean practices developed as part of the Toyota Production System, their prowess on the production line didn’t equate to a well-running Information Systems (IS) […]
