Rocky Mountain Software Symposium - November 10 - 12, 2006 - No Fluff Just Stuff

David Hussman

Rocky Mountain Software Symposium

Denver · November 10 - 12, 2006

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David Hussman

Agility Coach/Instructor/Practioner

David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agility as a delivery tool. His work includes helping companies of all sizes all over the world. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to invent, evolve and plan the delivery of all types of products and projects. David also spends a great deal of time helping leaders at all levels find ways to pragmatically use agility to foster innovation.

Prior to working as a full time coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.

Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world. He is the recipient of the Agile Alliance, 2009 Gordon Pask Award. David continuously contributes to books and various publications.

For coaching information, presentations, and more, visit www.devjam.com

Presentations

Creating, Telling, and Tracking User Stories

The participants of this session will become agile customers and product owners, using personas to create stories for a sample product development.

Ready, Set, Agile?

As with many methodologies, moving agile into an organizations poses larger challenges. Before jumping in, it helps to ask a few questions before “racing toward agility”. This session will provide 3 tactical steps that can help your adoption of agile.

Losing Battles and Winning Wars: Adopting Agile

Adopting agile is different for each company, but most companies will go through some amount of change during the adoption of agile.

Automating Business Value with FIT and FitNesse

The presentation will briefly discuss stories, the origin and authoring of story tests, and a demonstration of how FIT and FitNesse (FIT living within a Wiki) can be used to automate acceptance tests.