Venkat Subramaniam
TechLeader Summit
Clearwater · December 5 - 7, 2018
Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Presentations
Keynote: Do not walk away from Complexity, Run
We constantly hear that change should be affordable and cost effective. True, but, in reality, that's easily said than done. Complexity makes change hard. We can't shy away from the hard problems posed by domains and business needs. So, how can we solve complicated problems without getting dragged into the quagmire of what appears to be an inevitable complexity? In this keynote, an award winning author and software practitioner will share experiences and observations from working on multiple software projects, about what leads to complexities, the traps developers and organizations fall into, and what we can do to effectively deal with these common, recurring issues we see across domains and products.
Slowdown to Gain Speed: Technical practices that take time but save time
As a technical leader or software development manager, you're eager to remove impediments so your team can produce continuous results. Instilling a few technical practices can have significant impact on your teams ability to deliver continuous results.
Agility without discipline leads to fragility: Why and how of Automated Feedback Loops
Agile development is about adapting to change and deliver what's relevant to the customers and business. The vehicle to get there has wheels on two sides. Organizations often tend to focus on one side, the business aspect and the technical practices and discipline seems to go by the wayside. In spite of all the good intentions, the development turns into a crisis and becomes unmanageable.