Andy Painter
Great Lakes Software Symposium
Chicago · October 16 - 18, 2015
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 Executable Specification: an Agile Team's Best Friend
The Executable Specification is a result of implementing a set of practices that allow frequent change in software products to ensure that the right product is delivered economically. We'll explore how mature Agile Team's go from User Stories to Executable Specifications by implementing practices that foster collaboration, shared understanding and liberal automation to achieve living documentation that supports the team.
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.
Asking the Right Questions to Achieve Continuous Delivery
To successfully achieve a culture and practice of continuous delivery required discipline at many levels. We’ll discuss some key questions you should be asking and an explore key enablement practices that will establish and support a state of continuous delivery.
Effective BDD using Cucumber
Behavior-driven development (BDD) has evolved out of agile practices and is designed to make Test-driven development (TDD) more accessible and effective for teams new to agile software delivery. In recent years, BDD has grown to encompass the broader picture of agile analysis, automated acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Cucumber has been one of the popular frameworks for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). We will explore the power of Cucumber on the and pragmatic ways to kick start your BDD and testing efforts with Cucumber.