The 3-day event filled with knowledge and networking opportunities
November 12-14, 2015
Ameristar Casino & Resort
One Ameristar Blvd
St. Charles, MO 63301 (Map)
Levels
Topics
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
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
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
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