CONCURRENT S E S S I O N S
1 PDU per
Session
Wednesday, June 10, 4:15pm
BETTER SOFTWARE
BW13
PROJECTS & TEAMS
Get the Most
from Your Cross
Functional
Team: The
Project
Manager’s View
Julie Gardiner, Redmind
Jerry Weinberg
once said, “No
matter how it
looks at first, it’s
always a people
problem.” In the past, the
challenges for any team leader,
regardless of specialty, were
the same when it came down to
people issues. Now, with the
popularity of agile and its crossfunctional teams, we have
another factor to consider in
addition to the people—their
different specialties. How can
our leadership help us achieve
great results and a happy agile
team? Join Julie Gardiner as
she presents a communicationstyle model that can be used to
help motivate every member of
the team and minimize
personality/specialty clashes.
Julie shows you how to apply
this model to other
assessments—such as MyersBriggs, Belbin, and DISC—and
shares experiences using the
model. If you’re a newly
appointed team lead,
ScrumMaster, or you just want
to get the most out of your
team (cross-functional or
dedicated specialists), then this
session is for you.
BW14
BUSINESS ANALYSIS &
REQUIREMENTS
EARS: The Easy
Approach to
Requirements
Syntax
John Terzakis, Intel
One key to
specifying
effective
functional
requirements is
minimizing misinterpretation
and ambiguity. By employing a
consistent syntax in your
requirements, you can improve
readability and help ensure that
everyone on the team
understands exactly what to
develop. John Terzakis provides
examples of typical
requirements and explains how
to improve them using the Easy
Approach to