1 PDU per
Session
CONCURRENT S E S S I O N S
Thursday, June 11, 11:30am
AGILE DEVELOPMENT
AT4
AT5
DEVOPS
AT6
DT2
AGILE LEADERSHIP
PRODUCT DEFINITION
AGILE TEST & QA
DEVOPS & TESTING
Let’s Talk
Agile: Crucial
Conversations
with Executives
The Art of
Storytelling:
User Story
Smells and AntiPatterns
Agile TagTeam Testing:
Developers and
Testers Working
Together
Aligning
Process, Tools,
and Culture
for Continuous
Testing
Fadi Stephan,
Excella Consulting
Sandesh Yadav,
Progressive Insurance
Al Wagner, IBM
Agilists employ
user stories to
capture
requirements and
drive the planning
process for iterative and
incremental delivery of
software. Traditionalists with
experience in “big
requirements up front” often
struggle with the brevity of user
stories and how to best
communicate requirements.
Fadi Stephan explains the basic
concepts of user stories,
explores the benefits of
employing user stories to
represent customer
requirements, and discusses the
attributes of a good user story.
He takes a deep dive into
common anti-patterns and
mistakes that teams make when
writing user stories so you can
learn to identify and avoid
these mistakes. Along the way,
determine the right size for a
user story, learn how to
properly split a user story, and
discover different boundaries
for prioritizing stories.
Understand when a story is
ready for development—and
how to decompose a story that
is not ready. Leave with new
insights on how to write
effective user stories.
Lack of
communication
between testers
and developers
presents a key
challenge to the completion of
projects. Developers often write
their unit tests without
knowledge of effective test
design techniques, code
coverage may be unknown, and
business risk may be ignored.
This may result in poor quality
tests and, eventually, poor
products. As both a software
tester and programmer,
Sandesh Yadav has been on
both sides of the fence and
suggests bringing developers
and testers together—early and
often—for in-depth
conversations on user stories.
Sandesh describes the
importance of determining the
priority from the business
perspective to help test and
triage defects. He explores how
to aid product owners in
prioritizing stories to achieve a
better product and shares
personal insights on how these
conversations help in building a
better, more valuable, and
more relevant product and
improving the quality,
efficiency, and delivery time of
development work.
Bob Hartman,
Agile for All
Does speaking to
your company’s
management or
executives about
agile scare you
half to death? If so, you aren’t
alone. Bob Hartman explains
the most common scenarios
that trigger these fears. An
interactive exercise using these
scenarios gives you a baseline
of insights into the causes of
the fear or anxiety we
experience in these situations.
Bob uses these insights to help
you understand the basic skills
necessary to effectively
communicate with people in
positions of authority. He
explores the importance of
having empathy, understanding
motivation, and using basic
negotiation skills in the context
of having meaningful
conversations. In addition, he
shares several common
communication methods that
fall flat when speaking to
executives. Bob concludes with
an exercise to ensure everyone
leaves with the critical
understanding of both the
positive techniques to use and
the negative techniques to
avoid during these difficult
conversations.
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In a DevOps
approach,
extending agile
and lean
practices—
including testing—across the
development process is key to
continuously bringing highquality software to the
consumer. Since typically onethird of the delivery lifecycle is
testing, there is no continuous
delivery without continuous
testing. So with such a focus on
testing, why do testers continue
to feel overlooked? Why do
they believe that their
organization is ignoring the
importance of improving
testing practices and removing
bottlenecks? Join Al Wagner as
he shares how organizations
can align the testing process,
tools, and culture across the
entire delivery team—
programmers, testers, and
operations—where all are
working as one to deliver a vital
product. Discover how testers
can become involved earlier in
the development process.
Learn about emerging
technologies to shift testing left
and make continuous testing a
reality. Leave with an
understanding of how to
implement change for process
improvement. Be the initiator of
change and increase respect for
the testing profession in your
organization.
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