Richard Stinear - How to Build a Death StarMozaic Works
A Sith Lord wants to build a Death Star to destroy planets but faces several challenges in implementing an Agile development approach within a large, traditional organization. Key issues include gaining funding approval, creating cross-functional teams, determining requirements and design upfront, managing distributed development, conducting testing at scale, and achieving frequent releases in controlled environments. The presentation outlines how addressing these issues through Agile practices like Scrum could enable building a functional Death Star.
Beyond the Slide Deck: Creating & Delivering Great PresentationsReadyTalk
Presentations are critical communications events for companies, because they're always given to inform or persuade, and the result of a presentation is almost always a decision. For these reasons, the quality of the presentation content, materials and presenting skills are major factors in achieving the desired results from a presentation.
A great presentation persuades and inspires; a poor presentation damages confidence in the ideas and the organization behind them. This webinar examines the three critical success factors for presenting - content, medium and delivery - and provides practical advice on optimizing each of these dimensions in your presentations.
Alexandru Bolboaca - Unit Testing from the TrenchesMozaic Works
This document provides clarification and practical ideas around unit testing. It begins by defining a unit test and the typical Arrange, Act, Assert structure. It then clarifies when tests are written, who writes different types of tests, and characteristics of good tests. Five practical ideas are presented to address common situations like bugs due to untested code, slow/unpredictable tests, and lack of test automation. The overall message is that unit tests form the "immune system" of a product and can replace manual testing and debugging when used properly.
This keynote presentation describes the critical role that search and Lucene has in building next generation products that understand reputation and relevance. We also describe how data science and machine learning have been applied at LinkedIn to collect, interpret, and index data around topical reputation.
Lucene Revolution is the biggest open source conference dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr.
Richard Stinear - How to Build a Death StarMozaic Works
A Sith Lord wants to build a Death Star to destroy planets but faces several challenges in implementing an Agile development approach within a large, traditional organization. Key issues include gaining funding approval, creating cross-functional teams, determining requirements and design upfront, managing distributed development, conducting testing at scale, and achieving frequent releases in controlled environments. The presentation outlines how addressing these issues through Agile practices like Scrum could enable building a functional Death Star.
Beyond the Slide Deck: Creating & Delivering Great PresentationsReadyTalk
Presentations are critical communications events for companies, because they're always given to inform or persuade, and the result of a presentation is almost always a decision. For these reasons, the quality of the presentation content, materials and presenting skills are major factors in achieving the desired results from a presentation.
A great presentation persuades and inspires; a poor presentation damages confidence in the ideas and the organization behind them. This webinar examines the three critical success factors for presenting - content, medium and delivery - and provides practical advice on optimizing each of these dimensions in your presentations.
Alexandru Bolboaca - Unit Testing from the TrenchesMozaic Works
This document provides clarification and practical ideas around unit testing. It begins by defining a unit test and the typical Arrange, Act, Assert structure. It then clarifies when tests are written, who writes different types of tests, and characteristics of good tests. Five practical ideas are presented to address common situations like bugs due to untested code, slow/unpredictable tests, and lack of test automation. The overall message is that unit tests form the "immune system" of a product and can replace manual testing and debugging when used properly.
This keynote presentation describes the critical role that search and Lucene has in building next generation products that understand reputation and relevance. We also describe how data science and machine learning have been applied at LinkedIn to collect, interpret, and index data around topical reputation.
Lucene Revolution is the biggest open source conference dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr.