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November 12-14, 2015

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St. Charles, MO 63301 (Map)

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Agile


Agile Metrics that Matter

When it comes to development methods, lean and agile have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures we can glean from agile teams, why the are rele ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Clint Edmonson

Topics: Agile   Development Practices  


Agile Transitions From The Trenches

There's been a lot of talk recently about Agile software development. As people try to make the transition, they generally find themselves stumbling and maybe even giving up on Agile altogether. In th ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Lee Brandt

Topics: Agile   Development Practices  


Deconstructing the Scaled Agile Framework

With so many process frameworks and methodologies out there, it’s hard to know where to begin. And just when everyone seems to be warming up to agile, here comes SCALED agile. But how is SAFe really d ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Angela Dugan

Topics: Agile   Architecture Practices  


Distributed Agile

We live and work in a global and distributed environment. It is no longer the norm to have everyone in one location for software development projects. Whether people are working from home, or the othe ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Jonathan Mills

Topics: Agile   DevOps  


How TFS 2015 is Going to Rock Your Agile world!

If you’ve been using Team Foundation Server for a while, you know it can do everything short of making you a latte as you walk into your morning scrum. TFS has come a long way in the last 10 years, an ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Angela Dugan

Topics: Agile   DevOps  


Introduction to Dev-Ops: 2+2=5

As professionals in the software development industry, we're asked to deliver value more quickly to our business overlords. We have suffered through terminology changes of how to act: Agile, ALM, and ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Chris Kadel

Topics: Agile   DevOps  


Reclaiming Agile Development: Don't let the cat die...

Regardless of how you feel about felines, dead cats stink. What also stinks is what is happening to agile development practices. What started as a movement to increase quality and usefulness of code w ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Paul Holway

Topics: Agile   Development Practices  


SpecFlow for Agile Teams

Acceptance Test-Driven Development is a test methodology that picks up where Unit Testing ends and can be leveraged to make testing a collaborative effort for the entire agile team. We’ll look at t ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Alejandro Ramirez

Topics: Agile  


Stop Killing Requirements!

As many organizations have moved away from waterfall into more agile-based processes requirements (both business and functional) tend to get shoved to the curb. In this session we will explore how bus ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Melissa Green

Topics: Agile  


The Justice League . . . and how our developers made us into Super Heroes!

This session will be presented by two Project Management Super Heroes who will be dressed for the part (Mandi Septer and Jenifer Spencer). It is a "how to" in reverse. It will be over what we have l ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jenifer Spencer

Topics: Agile   Project Management