ÜberConf - July 21 - 24, 2015 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Andy Painter

ÜberConf

Denver · July 21 - 24, 2015

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Andy Painter

Agile Technologist

Andy Painter is the Co-Founder of Institute Success and Institute Agility. Institute Success focuses on helping leaders become an Engaged Company™ by developing their leaders and teams. Institute Agility focuses on helping organizations ignite the spirit of agility in one heart, one team, one organization at a time.

Andy has over 25 years of software development experience as a developer, architect, tester, manager and executive. Over the two decades, Andy has coupled deep technology experience with Agile practices to create teams and environments that are hyper-productive. Over the last decade, Andy has added a focus of developing leaders and organizations to unlock their potential to achieve new levels of success. Andy helps and inspires leaders to take a people-first approach to both leadership and agility.

Presentations

The Top Agile Pitfalls that Lead to Trouble

Although Agile has proven to provide incredible benefits in software development and delivery, it is not foolproof, nor a “Silver Bullet.” Plenty of factors need to be considered before attempting this highly disciplined approach.

The Disciplined Agile Team

Some come to Agile assuming it involves less discipline than their traditional methods, but this is a misperception. Today, the need for discipline in software development is greater than it ever was. Agile answers that need, arriving at discipline through the Team. Agile Teams must collaborate to develop strong discipline in both planning and execution.

Scaling Agility with SAFe

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is quickly becoming one of the leading frameworks to scaled agility within organizations of size. In this session we'll explore the foundational elements of an effective SAFe program.

GIVEN poor results WHEN developing software THEN use SbE

Discuss how Specification by Example (SbE) can improve the quality of our software. We'll discuss what SbE is and the key activities to successfully utilize SbE to improve our results.