John Borys
Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
Seattle · October 13 - 15, 2017
Agile Technical Coach at Accenture Digital Interactive
John Borys has developed Enterprise Java applications for 16 years in the Chicago Metropolitan area. He has consulted for small start-ups and Fortune 50 companies. Introduced to Agile in 2004 while working on a maintenance system for the F-22 Raptor Engine, he has been an agile Proponent ever since. During that time he has been an Agile Developer, Scrum Master, Technical Lead, Java Architect, and for the last four years, an Agile Coach.
He is currently with Accenture specializing in Agile Transformation in the Large Enterprise and teaching teams XP Fundamentals.
John is a Certified Scrum Professional and a Certified Scrum Master.
Presentations
What Gives Agile Its Agility?
What gives Agile its Agility? Where does agility come from? How do we measure it? If you have been using agile for awhile, why is your velocity falling? What can you do to get it moving back in the right direction? How do you incorporate testing into an Agile Team? What kind of roles/specialization do you need to have a truly cross-functional team? In this talk, we will dive into where agility actually comes from and how you can discover or rediscover agility for your teams.
So you're a Big Company and You "Want to Go Agile"?
So you're a Large Enterprise and you want to “Go Agile”. How do you do that and does Agile ACTUALLY Scale? In this talk, we will dive into the real issues that today’s large Enterprises face when trying to Transform their organization.
Why are Agile Transformations so hard?
What is the “secret ingredient” needed for Agile Success?
QA in the Agile World
QA. We all know we need it, but quality takes time. How do we squeeze it into two-week sprints? Is a story really done if we haven’t finished QA? Do your Dev teams throw “code over the wall” to be tested in the next sprint? Or are your testers expected to test all your code in the last three Days of your Sprint? These are anti-patterns we see all the time in the Large Enterprise. In this presentation we will discuss how QA is handled - and mishandled when an Enterprises “adopt” Scrum. We will conclude with the best approaches to delivering potentially shippable code, in a quickly changing business world. This presentation will assume a basic understanding of agile principles.