The Extreme Decade told the story of agile software development from 1999-2011. The Next Decade describes one of the many directions in which I hope agile software will go in the coming ten years.
The Next Decade of Agile Software Development and TestTechWell
After almost fifteen years of history with agile practices, J.B. Rainsberger sees some alarming trends in our attitudes, practices, and even what we teach about agile. At the same time, he sees some progress in approaches and technologies—e.g., behavior-driven development, naked planning, and continuous delivery. Sadly, we still have maturity models, complicated process checklists, and unnecessary certification schemes. In the coming decade, unless we begin to focus on fundamental ingredients absent from many agile teams, J.B. fears we are doomed to miss many opportunities for getting better. It's not good enough anymore just to be a great agile tester. J.B. says testers, programmers, product analysts, and managers must encourage workplace transformations so we can take full advantage of new tools and techniques. He shares a vision of these transformations and calls on testers and test managers, who work with all stakeholder groups, to stand up and lead us into the next decade of agile.
The Next Decade of Agile Software Development and TestTechWell
After almost fifteen years of history with agile practices, J.B. Rainsberger sees some alarming trends in our attitudes, practices, and even what we teach about agile. At the same time, he sees some progress in approaches and technologies—e.g., behavior-driven development, naked planning, and continuous delivery. Sadly, we still have maturity models, complicated process checklists, and unnecessary certification schemes. In the coming decade, unless we begin to focus on fundamental ingredients absent from many agile teams, J.B. fears we are doomed to miss many opportunities for getting better. It's not good enough anymore just to be a great agile tester. J.B. says testers, programmers, product analysts, and managers must encourage workplace transformations so we can take full advantage of new tools and techniques. He shares a vision of these transformations and calls on testers and test managers, who work with all stakeholder groups, to stand up and lead us into the next decade of agile.
Innovations in storytelling session at the 2016 IRE Conference
Speakers: Adam Playford, Paul Cheung
Summery: Animation. Data visualization. Virtual Reality. Annotated Documents. GIFs. Journalists can tell stories in ways that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. This hands-on session will up your game in modern storytelling by visualizing and wireframing essential elements for your next story.
The Next Decade (of Agile Software Development)jbrains
(As presented at Agile Testing Days, October 2013, Potsdam DE) Two years ago, I looked back at over a decade of progress in the community of Agile software development practitioners. I talked about some alarming trends in our attitudes, our practices and what we teach, but also described the ways in which I believe we’d really advanced the art of software development. Now, I explore a more interesting question: Where do we go from here? Those alarming trends haven’t all gone away. In fact, some have got worse, and I want to highlight some of things that I think we really need to stop before they destroy all the credibility we’ve built. Of course, the picture is not bleak: we’ve helped make software development better for so many people, and I’ll talk about where I’d like us to focus our considerable energy to help make the coming decade even better for our field and the lives of our colleagues.
Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is betterESUG
Fri, August 26, 9:30am – 10:00am
Video: https://youtu.be/LRFLdWG24Mk
First Name: Marcus
Last Name: Denker
Email where you can always be reached: marcus.denker@inria.fr
Title: Why is worse better? or: The Power of Feedback Loops.
Type: Talk
Abstract:
Did you ever wonder why in-complete, bad solutions are successful while
that "perfect" project (which will be finsihed very soon now!) never had any impact?
In this talk I will discuss the power and properties of feedback loops and
how they relate to growth and success of software projects.
In a way this talk can be seen Part II (or an iteration?) of the
"Nomads do not build Cathedrals” talk held at ESUG 2014.
Bio:
Marcus Denker is a permanent researcher (CR1, with tenure) at INRIA Lille - Nord Europe and co-founder of 2Denker GmbH. Before, he was a postdoc at the
PLEIAD lab/DCC University of Chile and the Software Composition Group, University of Bern. His research focuses on reflection and meta-programming for
dynamic languages. He is an active participant in the Squeak and Pharo open source communities for many years. Marcus Denker received a PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Bern/Switzerland in 2008 and a Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in 2004. He is a member of ACM,
GI and a board-member of ESUG.
The world is in love with the "Internet of things" but we are using old tools to solve the problem. While we had no choice but to use native apps on our phones for this first generation of smart devices (e.g. Nest) it can't scale. If we believe in Moore's Law at all, we'll have hundreds if not thousands of these devices in our lives in a very short period of time. It just doesn't make sense to use apps as our primary interaction tool. The Physical Web is an approach to 'infuse' the web into physical objects so you can just walk up and use any device, on any platform, with just a single click.
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Signature content of MTBiz is its Article of the Month (AoM), as depicted on Cover Page of each issue, with featured focus on different issues that fall into the wide definition of Market, Business, Organization and Leadership. The AoM also covers areas on Innovation, Central Banking, Monetary Policy, National Budget, Economic Depression or Growth and Capital Market. Scale of coverage of the AoM both, global and local subject to each issue.
MTBiz is a monthly Market Review produced and distributed by Group R&D, MTB since 2009.
Welcome to the blue team! How building a better hacker accidentally built a b...Casey Ellis
Security practitioners know that the threats that face an organization are always active, and that while defenders need to get everything right, a good attacker only needs to get one thing right. That’s all well and good for security practitioners, but what about the rest of the company? How do you transform security from a rather inconvenient checklist, to a nascent awareness of the threat? How do you get those responsible for providing your attack surface to ‘actually care about whether it’s secure or not?
How much time and money do we collectively burn by fixing the same kinds of basic, "binary," well-defined things over and over again (e.g., meta tags, 404s, URLs, etc), when we could be teaching others throughout our organizations not to break them in the first place?
As long as we "own" technical SEO, there's no reason (for example) for the average developer to learn it or care — so they keep making the same mistakes. We proclaim that others are doing things wrong, but by doing so we only reinforce the line between our skills and theirs. We need to start giving away bits of the SEO discipline, and technical SEO is the easiest piece for us to stop owning.
It's time for more democratization, education, collaboration, and investment in open-source projects so we can fix things once, rather than a million times.
Jesse Robbins (Cofounder of Opscode) explains how to be a force for Awesome. He will explain how to evangelize & overcome cultural resistance to change (& share his own painfully funny lessons on how not to do it ;-).
Innovations in storytelling session at the 2016 IRE Conference
Speakers: Adam Playford, Paul Cheung
Summery: Animation. Data visualization. Virtual Reality. Annotated Documents. GIFs. Journalists can tell stories in ways that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. This hands-on session will up your game in modern storytelling by visualizing and wireframing essential elements for your next story.
The Next Decade (of Agile Software Development)jbrains
(As presented at Agile Testing Days, October 2013, Potsdam DE) Two years ago, I looked back at over a decade of progress in the community of Agile software development practitioners. I talked about some alarming trends in our attitudes, our practices and what we teach, but also described the ways in which I believe we’d really advanced the art of software development. Now, I explore a more interesting question: Where do we go from here? Those alarming trends haven’t all gone away. In fact, some have got worse, and I want to highlight some of things that I think we really need to stop before they destroy all the credibility we’ve built. Of course, the picture is not bleak: we’ve helped make software development better for so many people, and I’ll talk about where I’d like us to focus our considerable energy to help make the coming decade even better for our field and the lives of our colleagues.
Perfection & Feedback Loops or: why worse is betterESUG
Fri, August 26, 9:30am – 10:00am
Video: https://youtu.be/LRFLdWG24Mk
First Name: Marcus
Last Name: Denker
Email where you can always be reached: marcus.denker@inria.fr
Title: Why is worse better? or: The Power of Feedback Loops.
Type: Talk
Abstract:
Did you ever wonder why in-complete, bad solutions are successful while
that "perfect" project (which will be finsihed very soon now!) never had any impact?
In this talk I will discuss the power and properties of feedback loops and
how they relate to growth and success of software projects.
In a way this talk can be seen Part II (or an iteration?) of the
"Nomads do not build Cathedrals” talk held at ESUG 2014.
Bio:
Marcus Denker is a permanent researcher (CR1, with tenure) at INRIA Lille - Nord Europe and co-founder of 2Denker GmbH. Before, he was a postdoc at the
PLEIAD lab/DCC University of Chile and the Software Composition Group, University of Bern. His research focuses on reflection and meta-programming for
dynamic languages. He is an active participant in the Squeak and Pharo open source communities for many years. Marcus Denker received a PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Bern/Switzerland in 2008 and a Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in 2004. He is a member of ACM,
GI and a board-member of ESUG.
The world is in love with the "Internet of things" but we are using old tools to solve the problem. While we had no choice but to use native apps on our phones for this first generation of smart devices (e.g. Nest) it can't scale. If we believe in Moore's Law at all, we'll have hundreds if not thousands of these devices in our lives in a very short period of time. It just doesn't make sense to use apps as our primary interaction tool. The Physical Web is an approach to 'infuse' the web into physical objects so you can just walk up and use any device, on any platform, with just a single click.
MTBiz is for you if you are looking for contemporary information on business, economy and especially on banking industry of Bangladesh. You would also find periodical information on Global Economy and Commodity Markets.
Signature content of MTBiz is its Article of the Month (AoM), as depicted on Cover Page of each issue, with featured focus on different issues that fall into the wide definition of Market, Business, Organization and Leadership. The AoM also covers areas on Innovation, Central Banking, Monetary Policy, National Budget, Economic Depression or Growth and Capital Market. Scale of coverage of the AoM both, global and local subject to each issue.
MTBiz is a monthly Market Review produced and distributed by Group R&D, MTB since 2009.
Welcome to the blue team! How building a better hacker accidentally built a b...Casey Ellis
Security practitioners know that the threats that face an organization are always active, and that while defenders need to get everything right, a good attacker only needs to get one thing right. That’s all well and good for security practitioners, but what about the rest of the company? How do you transform security from a rather inconvenient checklist, to a nascent awareness of the threat? How do you get those responsible for providing your attack surface to ‘actually care about whether it’s secure or not?
How much time and money do we collectively burn by fixing the same kinds of basic, "binary," well-defined things over and over again (e.g., meta tags, 404s, URLs, etc), when we could be teaching others throughout our organizations not to break them in the first place?
As long as we "own" technical SEO, there's no reason (for example) for the average developer to learn it or care — so they keep making the same mistakes. We proclaim that others are doing things wrong, but by doing so we only reinforce the line between our skills and theirs. We need to start giving away bits of the SEO discipline, and technical SEO is the easiest piece for us to stop owning.
It's time for more democratization, education, collaboration, and investment in open-source projects so we can fix things once, rather than a million times.
Jesse Robbins (Cofounder of Opscode) explains how to be a force for Awesome. He will explain how to evangelize & overcome cultural resistance to change (& share his own painfully funny lessons on how not to do it ;-).
While Beyoncé may answer this question with a loud, enthusiastic “GIRLS”, let’s be real: the people in technology are making this world go around. And in STEM careers and STEM majors, the gender gap is still clearly in effect. In this talk, a recent high school graduate and Girls in Tech leader will offer a fresh perspective about the disconnect between girls and careers in technology, despite the ongoing efforts by many to close this gap. We'll get real about why we still aren’t seeing enough girls pursue these careers, why it’s still important to change this, and how we can all become better allies (or “STEMinists”) to help fix the issue.
This is really a 2 hour presentation I give to high school students cut down to 3 minutes. And it all started one day,on a plane,on my way to TED,7 years ago.And in the seat next to me was a high school student,a teenager,and she came from a really poor family and she wanted to make something of her life.And she asked me a simple little question.
"what leads to success?"
And I felt really badly because I couldn’t give her a good answer. So I get off the plane and I come to TED. And I think, Jesus, I’m in the middle of a room with successful people. So, why don’t I ask them -what helped them succeed and pass it onto kids.
26. Simple, clear purpose and
principles give rise to
complex, intelligent
behavior. Complex rules
and regulations give rise to
simple, stupid behavior.
Dee Hock,
Birth of the Chaordic Age