Speakers
- Clifford Berg
- David Bock
- Scott Davis
- Rick DeNatale
- Esther Derby
- Robert Fischer
- Neal Ford
- Chad Fowler
- Andrew Glover
- Stuart Halloway
- David Hussman
- Yehuda Katz
- Rich Kilmer
- Carl Lerche
- Matthew McCullough
- Joe O'Brien
- Andrea O. K. Wright
- Russ Olsen
- Bob Payne
- Christopher Redinger
- Johanna Rothman
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Ken Sipe
- Brian Sletten
- Kevin Smith
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Nathaniel Talbott
- Laurie Williams
Jared Richardson
Agile coach and co-author of Ship It
Software Projects, is a speaker, consultant, and mentor with NFJS One. Jared has been in the industry for more than fifteen years as a consultant, developer, tester, and manager.
Jared can be found online at Agile Artisans.
Presentations
Agile Anti-Patterns
Agile is wildly popular in some circles and hated in others. How can the same ideas cause such different reactions? Sometimes it's the definition of "agile" and other times it's company culture, but there's usually a good reason when Agile ideas are thrown out on their collective ears.
In this talk we'll discuss what works about Agile, how advocates have tainted the word in many companies, and how you can move great ideas forward successfully on your team.
Agile Transitions: Practical Tips and Tricks
Lots of shops want to adopt an Agile process, but find it very difficult to change the way their teams work. We'll look over several ways to introduce change and why some efforts do so much better than others.
We'll cover topics from grassroots and sea change to the Dreyfus Learning Model to understand why people learn the way they do. You'll leave this talk with concrete ways to introduce change in your shop.
Agile Testing: Solid Strategies
Many teams have strategies for development, but just hope that testing will magically happen. It usually doesn't. Let's look at how a solid strategy and environment will make your testing effort a success.
We'll cover topics like Blitzkrieg testing, Defect Driven Testing, and more, that you can use to drive a solid testing effort for your team of developers or testers.
Teamwide Tune-Ups: Principles and Practices
We rarely get a chance to "reboot" a team, but we get lots of chances to introduce smaller improvements. What are the best areas to target? How can you successful improve the way your team works?
We'll discuss "Edit, don't Create", feedback loops, and the areas you need to need to apply these principles to ensure your team is operating at it's top efficiency.
Kanban: Making Agile Visible
Many shops are adopting Kanban as a new twist on an existing Scrum team. Using a Kanban board helps your team spot bottlenecks in the path from idea to deployment, and makes it just as easy for non-technical managers and customers to understand as well. Additionally, other elements of Kanban (like time boxed features), do a great job of helping you stay productive.
This will be an introduction to the key concepts behind Kanban, and how you can start using it next week with your own team.
Books
by Jared Richardson
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Has your career been a product of random chance? Learn how to take control. These solid, repeatable steps show you how to chart the course you want, then how to follow it.
The book is aimed primarily at a technical market, but the content is applicable to most professional fields.
by Jared Richardson and William A. Gwaltney
Price: $19.77
You Save: $10.18 (34%)
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Ship It! is a collection of tips that show the tools and techniques a successful project team has to use, and how to use them well. You'll get quick, easy-to-follow advice on modern practices: which to use, and when they should be applied. This book avoids current fashion trends and marketing hype; instead, readers find page after page of solid advice, all tried and tested in the real world.
Aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, Ship It! will show you:
- Which tools help, and which don't
- How to keep a project moving
- Approaches to scheduling that work
- How to build developers as well as product
- What's normal on a project, and what's not
- How to manage managers, end-users and sponsors
- Danger signs and how to fix them
Few of the ideas presented here are controversial or extreme; most experienced programmers will agree that this stuff works. Yet 50 to 70 percent of all project teams in the U.S. aren't able to use even these simple, well-accepted practices effectively. This book will help you get started.
Ship It! begins by introducing the common technical infrastructure that every project needs to get the job done. Readers can choose from a variety of recommended technologies according to their skills and budgets. The next sections outline the necessary steps to get software out the door reliably, using well-accepted, easy-to-adopt, best-of-breed practices that really work.
Finally, and most importantly, Ship It! presents common problems that teams face, then offers real-world advice on how to solve them.