As a newly promoted quality assurance manager, Willie Smith assumed responsibility for a large application that allows UPS customers to ship packages worldwide. His team was distributed worldwide and had varying levels of automation experience, application knowledge, and QA processes in place. With the next deployment date only a few months away, Willie found that the testing side of the project was in trouble. To align the test team with project and company goals, he had to develop virtual training plans and implement new practices to deal with the host of issues he faced. One key step was to quickly select and implement new communication and collaboration tools for his distributed team and others to use. Willie shares how all the stakeholders pulled together, employing updated practices and new tools to pull off what some thought was a “mission impossible.” Come and listen to Willie’s story to learn how you can develop, train, lead, and manage virtual teams—large or small.
presentacion de seguridad en VoIP, dictada en el seminario tendencias , estrategia y practicas para el 2010 de channel planet los dias 14 y 15 de diciembre del 2009
These slides - based on the webinar featuring David Monahan, research director for security and risk management at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and David Cramer, vice president of product management for Data Center Automation and Cloud at BMC - cover how to set a strategy to protect your organization.
Attend this webinar to:
• Understand the risks of the misalignment between security and operations
• Learn what tools and technology are available to help bridge the gap between security and operations
• Build your game plan to help your organization bridge the gap
Digital Heritage Documentation Via TLS And Photogrammetry Case Studytheijes
In the last decade, several manual tradition measurement techniques were used to document the heritage buildings around the word; however, some of these techniques take a long time, often lack completeness, and may sometimes give unreliable information. In contrast, terrestrial laser scanning “TLS” surveys and Photogrammetry have already been undertaken in several heritage sites in the United Kingdom and other countries of Europe as a new method of documenting heritagesites. This paper focuses on using the TLS and Photogrammetry methods to document one of the important houses in Historic Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which is Nasif Historical House, as an example of Digital Heritage Documentation (DHD).
presentacion de seguridad en VoIP, dictada en el seminario tendencias , estrategia y practicas para el 2010 de channel planet los dias 14 y 15 de diciembre del 2009
These slides - based on the webinar featuring David Monahan, research director for security and risk management at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), and David Cramer, vice president of product management for Data Center Automation and Cloud at BMC - cover how to set a strategy to protect your organization.
Attend this webinar to:
• Understand the risks of the misalignment between security and operations
• Learn what tools and technology are available to help bridge the gap between security and operations
• Build your game plan to help your organization bridge the gap
Digital Heritage Documentation Via TLS And Photogrammetry Case Studytheijes
In the last decade, several manual tradition measurement techniques were used to document the heritage buildings around the word; however, some of these techniques take a long time, often lack completeness, and may sometimes give unreliable information. In contrast, terrestrial laser scanning “TLS” surveys and Photogrammetry have already been undertaken in several heritage sites in the United Kingdom and other countries of Europe as a new method of documenting heritagesites. This paper focuses on using the TLS and Photogrammetry methods to document one of the important houses in Historic Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which is Nasif Historical House, as an example of Digital Heritage Documentation (DHD).
These slides from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provide an overview of recent research on DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Momentum continues to build for these two timely topics, and the initial findings are confirming the links between accelerated software delivery and revenue growth, which was first revealed by the 2014 EMA research on these same topics.
The Four V’s of Big Data Testing: Variety, Volume, Velocity, and VeracityTechWell
The expression “garbage, garbage out” emphasizes the need for thorough testing in any Big Data and analytics implementation. Big Data testing means ensuring the correctness and completeness of voluminous, often heterogeneous, data as it moves across different stages—ingestion, storage, analytics, and visualization—producing actionable insights. What should be our testing focus? Which of the 4 V’s—variety, volume, velocity, and veracity—are most important at which stage? For example, in the ingestion stage, testing needs to focus on variety of data rather than volume. As the data moves on to the storage stage, testing needs to focus on veracity rather than velocity. Jaya Bhallamudi presents a unique approach for analyzing a typical Big Data implementation architecture to identify various testing interfaces and highlight the specific V’s as the focus of testing. The focus is based on the context of the data flow (type of source from which data originates and the type of target to which the data is destined to move) and the context of the data (source data format, target data format, the business, filter, and transformation rules applied on the data), and then mapping them to different testing strategies. Take back the testing strategies and a test automation approach that are in perfect alignment with the 4 V’s of Big Data testing.
UContracts a DSL to document and validate structural requirements of frameworksAngela Lozano
This presentation summarizes the approach and results presented on the paper 'Usage contracts: Offering immediate feedback on violations of structural source-code regularities' published in the journal Science of Computer Programming.
Learning from your customers - A diary study with SlackProduct Anonymous
Katie Phillips talk on using Diary Studies for customer research including how she used Slack for a study at Australia Post. From Product Anonymous March 2017 event.
5 Ways to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Compensation ProgramsHuman Capital Media
Escalating competition for talent has made it substantially more challenging to attract, retain and motivate employees, while competitive markets have made it more important to control compensation costs. During this spotlight webinar, Dow Scott, professor of human resources in the Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, will examine five ways to increase the effectiveness of your compensation programs:
Align your business strategy and compensation programs.
Understand employee pay preferences.
Communicate pay information effectively.
Utilize incentive pay strategically.
Evaluate pay programs to achieve continuous improvement.
A content strategy helps associations transform everything they do into relevant, meaningful, and useful tools and resources for their members. Content strategy is a disciplined way to bring out the value of the association's work, leading to more member participation, higher renewal rate, and greater understanding of the association's value to members. Presentation at the 2014 ESSAE Annual Meeting for NY State association executives
BALANCING GLOBAL, LOCAL AND BUSINESS UNIT NEEDS: IMPLEMENTING A GLOBAL LEARNI...Human Capital Media
Responding to changes in the marketplace, Northern Trust continues to expand their operational capabilities and office footprint internationally in countries such as Ireland, India and the Philippines among many others.
The difficulties of operating internationally are abundant, including the learning and development of diverse employees. Keeping a constant balance between meeting local audience needs and the desire to deliver globally consistent programs can be challenging. Planning and executing on this global strategy with a decentralized, business unit-focused L&D organization provides even more complexity.
Join Kacie Walters, vice president, strategic learning programs at Northern Trust, as she presents the challenges and frameworks used to implement a global learning and development strategy with their ever-expanding international presence and federated L&D operating model.
Key takeaways:
Setting priorities to stay aligned to the business in a global, decentralized environment.
Holding the right balance between global and local solutions.
Governing learning solutions across a decentralized structure.
How L&D operating models are changing to address common challenges in global enterprises.
How Do Our Most Successful Customers Do It? The Must-Have Ingredients for Val...SAP Ariba
Companies are looking to solve different challenges and to achieve different outcomes. Despite all the factors that differentiate these companies, the key ingredients in the recipe for success are the same. Attend this session if you are interested in understanding how to build a strong program with SAP Ariba solutions that will lead to long-term value realization. Learn about the critical elements that our most successful customers have, and that all customers should strive for.
How Do Our Most Successful Customers Do It? The Must-Have Ingredients for Val...SAP Ariba
Companies are looking to solve different challenges and to achieve different outcomes. Despite all the factors that differentiate these companies, the key ingredients in the recipe for success are the same. Attend this session if you are interested in understanding how to build a strong program with SAP Ariba solutions that will lead to long-term value realization. Learn about the critical elements that our most successful customers have, and that all customers should strive for.
NUS-ISS Learning Day 2016 - Productisation - The New Thinking in Managing Sta...NUS-ISS
You are a vendor that builds and integrate systems for clients and are looking for ways to improve reuse and get better margins through building core products. You are in the regional HQ and have to build integrated global and regional IT systems but each site has common and different requirements.
Recently many situations have arisen where product management principles and best practices are used to understand your stakeholders, market and manage your IT systems and products to internal/external customers. Learn how to address some of these scenarios using best practices from product management.
Building People First - Lessons in Team Effectiveness & HappinessRahul Singh
When entrepreneurs begin their journey, human capital is not typically the first thing their mind drifts towards. Most likely, they are trying to figure out what customers they are going to serve or sell to and what they need to make or do to create a profit.
In this webinar for leaders and entrepreneurs, CEO Rahul Singh will explain how to integrate human capital development into the culture of a startup - even when it is comprised of just one or two people. Singh will show us why a company that emphasizes communications, organization, and training will be a leading one because it's people will be better, faster, and more qualified than the competition.
Singh will address:
• Communications strategies
• Leadership development through knowledge management
• Team building through real world examples while starting and growing an internet technology and software architecture firm.
• How his company's growth has been directly tied to building up the team's individuals into better team members.
About the Presenter:
Rahul Singh has spent the last 15 years working on Internet companies. At the age of 16, he started his first company in his parents basement to service 3000 hosting customers while going to High School. After designing, building, and migrating everything to a datacenter, he decided to try consulting. He helped his clients solve difficult problems related to creating highly scalable internet applications in organizations large and small such as MCI, ATT, Merrill Lynch, American Legacy Foundation. After a year learning the meaning of service in the restaurant industry, he took off from entrepreneurship to finish his education at Georgetown and worked at various consulting firms to service clients such as USPS, Miller Brewery and later with non-profits such as Feeding America, AICPA, AFT and ACLU.
These slides from leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provide an overview of recent research on DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Momentum continues to build for these two timely topics, and the initial findings are confirming the links between accelerated software delivery and revenue growth, which was first revealed by the 2014 EMA research on these same topics.
The Four V’s of Big Data Testing: Variety, Volume, Velocity, and VeracityTechWell
The expression “garbage, garbage out” emphasizes the need for thorough testing in any Big Data and analytics implementation. Big Data testing means ensuring the correctness and completeness of voluminous, often heterogeneous, data as it moves across different stages—ingestion, storage, analytics, and visualization—producing actionable insights. What should be our testing focus? Which of the 4 V’s—variety, volume, velocity, and veracity—are most important at which stage? For example, in the ingestion stage, testing needs to focus on variety of data rather than volume. As the data moves on to the storage stage, testing needs to focus on veracity rather than velocity. Jaya Bhallamudi presents a unique approach for analyzing a typical Big Data implementation architecture to identify various testing interfaces and highlight the specific V’s as the focus of testing. The focus is based on the context of the data flow (type of source from which data originates and the type of target to which the data is destined to move) and the context of the data (source data format, target data format, the business, filter, and transformation rules applied on the data), and then mapping them to different testing strategies. Take back the testing strategies and a test automation approach that are in perfect alignment with the 4 V’s of Big Data testing.
UContracts a DSL to document and validate structural requirements of frameworksAngela Lozano
This presentation summarizes the approach and results presented on the paper 'Usage contracts: Offering immediate feedback on violations of structural source-code regularities' published in the journal Science of Computer Programming.
Learning from your customers - A diary study with SlackProduct Anonymous
Katie Phillips talk on using Diary Studies for customer research including how she used Slack for a study at Australia Post. From Product Anonymous March 2017 event.
5 Ways to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Compensation ProgramsHuman Capital Media
Escalating competition for talent has made it substantially more challenging to attract, retain and motivate employees, while competitive markets have made it more important to control compensation costs. During this spotlight webinar, Dow Scott, professor of human resources in the Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, will examine five ways to increase the effectiveness of your compensation programs:
Align your business strategy and compensation programs.
Understand employee pay preferences.
Communicate pay information effectively.
Utilize incentive pay strategically.
Evaluate pay programs to achieve continuous improvement.
A content strategy helps associations transform everything they do into relevant, meaningful, and useful tools and resources for their members. Content strategy is a disciplined way to bring out the value of the association's work, leading to more member participation, higher renewal rate, and greater understanding of the association's value to members. Presentation at the 2014 ESSAE Annual Meeting for NY State association executives
BALANCING GLOBAL, LOCAL AND BUSINESS UNIT NEEDS: IMPLEMENTING A GLOBAL LEARNI...Human Capital Media
Responding to changes in the marketplace, Northern Trust continues to expand their operational capabilities and office footprint internationally in countries such as Ireland, India and the Philippines among many others.
The difficulties of operating internationally are abundant, including the learning and development of diverse employees. Keeping a constant balance between meeting local audience needs and the desire to deliver globally consistent programs can be challenging. Planning and executing on this global strategy with a decentralized, business unit-focused L&D organization provides even more complexity.
Join Kacie Walters, vice president, strategic learning programs at Northern Trust, as she presents the challenges and frameworks used to implement a global learning and development strategy with their ever-expanding international presence and federated L&D operating model.
Key takeaways:
Setting priorities to stay aligned to the business in a global, decentralized environment.
Holding the right balance between global and local solutions.
Governing learning solutions across a decentralized structure.
How L&D operating models are changing to address common challenges in global enterprises.
How Do Our Most Successful Customers Do It? The Must-Have Ingredients for Val...SAP Ariba
Companies are looking to solve different challenges and to achieve different outcomes. Despite all the factors that differentiate these companies, the key ingredients in the recipe for success are the same. Attend this session if you are interested in understanding how to build a strong program with SAP Ariba solutions that will lead to long-term value realization. Learn about the critical elements that our most successful customers have, and that all customers should strive for.
How Do Our Most Successful Customers Do It? The Must-Have Ingredients for Val...SAP Ariba
Companies are looking to solve different challenges and to achieve different outcomes. Despite all the factors that differentiate these companies, the key ingredients in the recipe for success are the same. Attend this session if you are interested in understanding how to build a strong program with SAP Ariba solutions that will lead to long-term value realization. Learn about the critical elements that our most successful customers have, and that all customers should strive for.
NUS-ISS Learning Day 2016 - Productisation - The New Thinking in Managing Sta...NUS-ISS
You are a vendor that builds and integrate systems for clients and are looking for ways to improve reuse and get better margins through building core products. You are in the regional HQ and have to build integrated global and regional IT systems but each site has common and different requirements.
Recently many situations have arisen where product management principles and best practices are used to understand your stakeholders, market and manage your IT systems and products to internal/external customers. Learn how to address some of these scenarios using best practices from product management.
Building People First - Lessons in Team Effectiveness & HappinessRahul Singh
When entrepreneurs begin their journey, human capital is not typically the first thing their mind drifts towards. Most likely, they are trying to figure out what customers they are going to serve or sell to and what they need to make or do to create a profit.
In this webinar for leaders and entrepreneurs, CEO Rahul Singh will explain how to integrate human capital development into the culture of a startup - even when it is comprised of just one or two people. Singh will show us why a company that emphasizes communications, organization, and training will be a leading one because it's people will be better, faster, and more qualified than the competition.
Singh will address:
• Communications strategies
• Leadership development through knowledge management
• Team building through real world examples while starting and growing an internet technology and software architecture firm.
• How his company's growth has been directly tied to building up the team's individuals into better team members.
About the Presenter:
Rahul Singh has spent the last 15 years working on Internet companies. At the age of 16, he started his first company in his parents basement to service 3000 hosting customers while going to High School. After designing, building, and migrating everything to a datacenter, he decided to try consulting. He helped his clients solve difficult problems related to creating highly scalable internet applications in organizations large and small such as MCI, ATT, Merrill Lynch, American Legacy Foundation. After a year learning the meaning of service in the restaurant industry, he took off from entrepreneurship to finish his education at Georgetown and worked at various consulting firms to service clients such as USPS, Miller Brewery and later with non-profits such as Feeding America, AICPA, AFT and ACLU.
8 Essentials for Building Robust Features by EA Sr Product ManagerProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Start from the right problems to solve
-Align feature goals
-Leverage the team power in idea generation
-Critically assess solutions
-Unbiased hypothesis Validation
-Prioritize Ruthlessly
-Show progress
-Communicate often
Do you ever feel you have lost confidence in your own abilities? Why does this happen? Isabel Evans spends a lot of time painting. Someone once commented, “Why are you doing this, when you are not very good at it?” And gradually she stopped drawing and painting, after being intimidated by a conventional vision of what good art should look like. At the same time, she experienced a parallel loss of confidence in her professional abilities. Attempting creative pursuits like drawing and painting is essential to cognitive, emotional, creative abilities and she began to understand the correlation between her creative activities and her confidence. Making errors, being wrong, failing – that is a generous gift we receive when we practice outside our skill level. By staying in a comfort zone and repeating successes, we stagnate. As Isabel started to create again she thought “I don’t feel good at it, I do feel good doing it” The difference was that she was learning, having ideas and the act of re-engaging with failure, together with the comradeship of friends and colleagues, including at Women Who Test, Isabel has regained her confidence in her professional abilities, and been able to reboot her career and joy. Join Isabel to share a journey from self-perceived failure, to recovery and renewed learning.
Instill a DevOps Testing Culture in Your Team and Organization TechWell
The DevOps movement is here. Companies across many industries are breaking down siloed IT departments and federating them into product development teams. Testing and its practices are at the heart of these changes. Traditionally, IT organizations have been staffed with mostly manual testers and a limited number of automation and performance engineers. To keep pace with development in the new “you build it, you own it” environment, testing teams and individuals must develop new technical skills and even embrace coding to stay relevant and add greater value to the business. DevOps really starts with testing. Join Adam Auerbach as he explains what DevOps is and how it relates to testing. He describes how testing must change from top to bottom and how to access your own environment to identify improvement opportunities. Adam dives into practices like service virtualization, test data management, and continuous testing so you can understand where you are now and identify steps needed to instill a DevOps testing culture in your team and organization.
Test Design for Fully Automated Build ArchitectureTechWell
Imagine this … As soon as any developed functionality is submitted into the code repository, it is automatically subjected to the appropriate battery of tests and then released straight into production. Setting up the pipeline capable of doing just that is becoming more and more common and something you need to know about. But most organizations hit the same stumbling block—just what IS the appropriate battery of tests? Automated build architectures don't always lend themselves well to the traditional stages of testing. In this hands-on tutorial, Melissa Benua introduces you to key test design principles—applicable to organizations both large and small—that allow you to take full advantage of the pipeline's capabilities without introducing unnecessary bottlenecks. Learn how to make highly reliable tests that run fast and preserve just enough information to let testers and developers determine exactly what went wrong and how to reproduce the error locally. Explore ways to reduce overlap while still maintaining adequate test coverage. Take back ideas about which test areas could benefit from being combined into a single suite and which areas could benefit most from being broken out altogether.
System-Level Test Automation: Ensuring a Good StartTechWell
Many organizations invest a lot of effort in test automation at the system level but then have serious problems later on. As a leader, how can you ensure that your new automation efforts will get off to a good start? What can you do to ensure that your automation work provides continuing value? This tutorial covers both “theory” and “practice”. Dot Graham explains the critical issues for getting a good start, and Chris Loder describes his experiences in getting good automation started at a number of companies. The tutorial covers the most important management issues you must address for test automation success, particularly when you are new to automation, and how to choose the best approaches for your organization—no matter which automation tools you use. Focusing on system level testing, Dot and Chris explain how automation affects staffing, who should be responsible for which automation tasks, how managers can best support automation efforts to promote success, what you can realistically expect in benefits and how to report them. They explain—for non-techies—the key technical issues that can make or break your automation effort. Come away with your own clarified automation objectives, and a draft test automation strategy to use to plan your own system-level test automation.
Build Your Mobile App Quality and Test StrategyTechWell
Let’s build a mobile app quality and testing strategy together. Whether you have a web, hybrid, or native app, building a quality and testing strategy means (1) knowing what data and tools you have available to make agile decisions, (2) understanding your customers and your competitors, and (3) testing your app under real-world conditions. Jason Arbon guides you through the latest techniques, data, and tools to ensure the awesomeness of your mobile app quality and testing strategy. Leave this interactive session with a strategy for your very own app—or one you pretend to own. The information Jason shares is based on data from Appdiff’s next-gen mobile app testing platform, lessons from Applause/uTest’s crowd, text mining hundreds of millions of app store reviews, and in-depth discussions with top mobile app development teams.
Testing Transformation: The Art and Science for SuccessTechWell
Technologies, testing processes, and the role of the tester have evolved significantly in the past few years with the advent of agile, DevOps, and other new technologies. It is critical that we testing professionals evaluate ourselves and continue to add tangible value to our organizations. In your work, are you focused on the trivial or on real game changers? Jennifer Bonine describes critical elements that help you artfully blend people, process, and technology to create a synergistic relationship that adds value. Jennifer shares ideas on mastering politics, maneuvering core vs. context, and innovating your technology strategies and processes. She explores how new processes can be introduced in an organization, what the role of organizational culture is in determining the success of a project, and how you can know what tools will add value vs. simply adding overhead and complexity. Jennifer reviews critically needed tester skills and discusses a continual learning model to evolve your skills and stay relevant. This discussion can lead you to technologies, processes, and skills you can stake your career on.
We’ve all been there. We work incredibly hard to develop a feature and design tests based on written requirements. We build a detailed test plan that aligns the tests with the software and the documented business needs. And when we put the tests to the software, it all falls apart because the requirements were changed without informing everyone. Mary Thorn says help is at hand. Enter behavior-driven development (BDD), and Cucumber and SpecFlow, tools for running automated acceptance tests and facilitating BDD. Mary explores the nuances of Cucumber and SpecFlow, and shows you how to implement BDD and agile acceptance testing. By fostering collaboration for implementing active requirements via a common language and format, Cucumber and SpecFlow bridge the communication gap between business stakeholders and implementation teams. In this workshop, practice writing feature files with the best practices Mary has discovered over numerous implementations. If you experience developers not coding to requirements, testers not getting requirements updates, or customers who feel out of the loop and don’t get what they ask for, Mary has answers for you.
Develop WebDriver Automated Tests—and Keep Your SanityTechWell
Many teams go crazy because of brittle, high-maintenance automated test suites. Jim Holmes helps you understand how to create a flexible, maintainable, high-value suite of functional tests using Selenium WebDriver. Learn the basics of what to test, what not to test, and how to avoid overlapping with other types of testing. Jim includes both philosophical concepts and hands-on coding. Testers who haven't written code should not be intimidated! We'll pair you up to make sure you're successful. Learn to create practical tests dealing with advanced situations such as input validation, AJAX delays, and working with file downloads. Additionally, discover when you need to work together with developers to create a system that's more easily testable. This tutorial focuses primarily on automating web tests, but many of the same concepts can be applied to other UI environments. Demos and labs will be in C# and Java using WebDriver. Leave this tutorial having learned how to write high-value WebDriver tests—and stay sane while doing so.
DevOps is a cultural shift aimed at streamlining intergroup communication and improving operational efficiency for development and operations groups. Over time, inclusion of other IT groups under the DevOps umbrella has become the norm for many organizations. But even broadening the boundaries of DevOps, the conversation has been largely devoid of the business units’ place at the table. A common mistake organizations make while going through the DevOps transformation is drawing a line at the IT boundary. If that occurs, a larger, more inclusive silo within the organization is created, operating in an informational vacuum and causing operational inefficiency and goal misalignment. Sharing his experiences working on both sides of the fence, Leon Fayer describes the importance of including business units in order to align technology decisions with business goals. Leon discusses inclusion of business units in existing agile processes, benefits of cross-departmental monitoring, and a business-first approach to technology decisions.
Eliminate Cloud Waste with a Holistic DevOps StrategyTechWell
Chris Parlette maintains that renting infrastructure on demand is the most disruptive trend in IT in decades. In 2016, enterprises spent $23B on public cloud IaaS services. By 2020, that figure is expected to reach $65B. The public cloud is now used like a utility, and like any utility, there is waste. Who's responsible for optimizing the infrastructure and reducing wasted expenses? It’s DevOps. The excess expense, known as cloud waste, comprises several interrelated problems: services running when they don't need to be, improperly sized infrastructure, orphaned resources, and shadow IT. There are a few core tenets of DevOps—holistic thinking, no silos, rapid useful feedback, and automation—that can be applied to reducing your cloud waste. Join Chris to learn why you should include continuous cost optimization in your DevOps processes. Automate cost control, reduce your cloud expenses, and make your life easier.
Transform Test Organizations for the New World of DevOpsTechWell
With the recent emergence of DevOps across the industry, testing organizations are being challenged to transform themselves significantly within a short period of time to stay meaningful within their organizations. It’s not easy to plan and approach these changes considering the way testing organizations have remained structured for ages. These challenges start from foundational organizational structures and can cut across leadership influence, competencies, tools strategy, infrastructure, and other dimensions. Sumit Kumar shares his experience assisting various organizations to overcome these challenges using an organized DevOps enablement framework. The framework includes radical restructuring, turning the tools strategy upside down, a multidimensional workforce enablement supported by infrastructure changes, redeveloped collaborations models, and more. From his real world experiences Sumit shares tips for approaching this journey and explains the roadmap for testing organizations to transform themselves to lead the quality in DevOps.
The Fourth Constraint in Project Delivery—LeadershipTechWell
All too often, the triple constraints—time, cost, and quality—are bandied about as if they are the be-all, end-all. While they are important, leadership—the fourth and larger underpinning constraint—influences the first three. Statistics on project success and failure abound, and these measurements are usually taken against the triple constraints. According to the Project Management Institute, only 53 percent of projects are completed within budget, and only 49 percent are completed on time. If so many projects overrun budget and are late, we can’t really say, “Good, fast, or cheap—pick two.” Rob Burkett talks about leadership at every level of a team. He shares his insights and stories gleaned from his years of IT and project management experience. Rob speaks to some of the glaring difficulties in the workplace in general and some specifically related to IT delivery and project management. Leave with a clearer understanding of how to communicate with teams and team members, and gain a better understanding of how you can be a leader—up and down your organization.
Resolve the Contradiction of Specialists within Agile TeamsTechWell
As teams grow, organizations often draw a distinction between feature teams, which deliver the visible business value to the user, and component teams, which manage shared work. Steve Berczuk says that this distinction can help organizations be more productive and scale effectively, but he recognizes that not all shared work fits into this model. Some work is best handled by “specialists,” that is people with unique skills. Although teams composed entirely of T-shaped people is ideal, certain skills are hard to come by and are used irregularly across an organization. Since these specialists often need to work closely with teams, rather than working from their own backlog, they don’t fit into the component team model. The use of shared resources presents challenges to the agile planning model. Steve Berczuk shares how teams such as those providing infrastructure services and specialists can fit into a feature+component team model, and how variations such as embedding specialists in a scrum team can both present process challenges and add significant value to both the team and the larger organization.
Pin the Tail on the Metric: A Field-Tested Agile GameTechWell
Metrics don’t have to be a necessary evil. If done right, metrics can help guide us to make better forward-looking decisions, rather than being used for simply managing or monitoring. They can help us identify trade-offs between options for what to do next versus punitive or worse, purely managerial measures. Steve Martin won’t be giving the Top Ten List of field-tested metrics you should use. Instead, in this interactive mini-workshop, he leads you through the critical thinking necessary for you to determine what is right for you to measure. First, Steve explores why you want to measure something—whether it’s for a team, a portfolio, or even an agile transformation. Next, he provides multiple real-life metrics examples to help drive home concepts behind characteristics of good and bad metrics. Finally, Steve shows how to run his field-tested agile game—Pin the Tail on the Metric. Take back this activity to help you guide metrics conversations at your organization.
Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)—A Model for Scaling Agile TeamsTechWell
A hierarchy is an organizational network that has a top and a bottom, and where position is determined by rank, importance, and value. A holarchy is a network that has no top or bottom and where each person’s value derives from his ability, rather than position. As more companies seek the benefits of agile, leaders need to build and sustain delivery capability while scaling agile without introducing unnecessary process and overhead. The Agile Performance Holarchy (APH) is an empirical model for scaling and sustaining agility while continuing to deliver great products. Jeff Dalton designed the APH by drawing from lessons learned observing and assessing hundreds of agile companies and teams. The APH helps implement a holarchy—a system composed of interacting organizational units called holons—centered on a series of performance circles that embody the behaviors of high performing agile organizations. Jeff describes how APH provides guidelines in the areas of leadership, values, teaming, visioning, governing, building, supporting, and engaging within an all-agile organization. Join Jeff to see what the APH is all about and how you can use it in your team and organization.
A Business-First Approach to DevOps ImplementationTechWell
DevOps is a cultural shift aimed at streamlining intergroup communication and improving operational efficiency for development and operations groups. Over time, inclusion of other IT groups under the DevOps umbrella has become the norm for many organizations. But even broadening the boundaries of DevOps, the conversation has been largely devoid of the business units’ place at the table. A common mistake organizations make while going through the DevOps transformation is drawing a line at the IT boundary. If that occurs, a larger, more inclusive silo within the organization is created, operating in an informational vacuum and causing operational inefficiency and goal misalignment. Sharing his experiences working on both sides of the fence, Leon Fayer describes the importance of including business units in order to align technology decisions with business goals. Leon discusses inclusion of business units in existing agile processes, benefits of cross-departmental monitoring, and a business-first approach to technology decisions.
Databases in a Continuous Integration/Delivery ProcessTechWell
DevOps is transforming software development with many organizations adopting lean development practices, implementing continuous integration (CI), and performing regular continuous deployment (CD) to their production environments. However, the database is largely ignored and often seen as a bottleneck in the DevOps process. Steve Jones discusses the challenges of database development and why many developers find the database to be an impediment to the CD process. Steve shares the techniques you can use to fit a database into the DevOps process. Learn how to store database code in a version control system, and the differences between that and application code. Steve demonstrates a CI process with SQL code and uses automated testing frameworks to check the code. Steve then shows how automated releases with manual gates can reduce the stress and risk of database deployments while ensuring consistent, reliable, repeatable releases to QA, UAT, and production.
Mobile Testing: What—and What Not—to AutomateTechWell
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Willie
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Willie
Smith,
CTAL-‐TM,
PMP,
has
more
than
twenty
years
of
IT
experience
in
software
development,
web
testing,
risk-‐based
testing,
automated
testing,
and
project
management.
A
quality
assurance
(QA)
manager
at
UPS
in
the
information
systems
division,
Willie
is
a
highly
efficient,
methodical,
and
talented
leader
in
developing
and
implementing
effective
QA
processes.
He
currently
leads
a
team
of
several
programmers
and
manual
and
automation
QA
specialists,
testing
a
company-‐critical
web
service
application
that
is
used
more
than
50
million
times
a
day
on
UPS.com.
Before
joining
UPS,
Willie
worked
as
an
eBusiness
consultant
for
IBM,
helping
Fortune
500
companies
develop
and
implement
their
eBusiness
strategies.