Large enterprises can be slow to adopt new technology. When they get around to making changes to their toolsets, they can easily get carried away with the cool-factor, and adopt them without the rigor needed to make sure they perform the job properly, which often ends up with the tool being blamed for issues it’s not directly responsible for.

This presentation looks at the journey a major European mobile provider took, from its relational roots, through the understanding and selling of the benefits of NOSQL alternatives, to the selection and development of a strategic system in MongoDB.

Come on and Discover exciting new ways to gear-up Agile Dynamics, with INNOVATION GAMES, revealed by the great Luke Hohmann. You’ll immediately become addicted, and this storytelling-oriented talk will give you pragmatic keys to start your own experience, for instance : - engaging a team transition to agility with …. Remember the Future, - defining a Product Vision with … The Product Box - unlocking tricky situations with Speedboat - challenging a team organization with “Start Your Day” The session will be animated by 2 experts, and a prezi-based demonstration.

Many organisations operatin in highly regulated environments, such as healthcare, have concluded that in order to achieve the next level of product quality and safety improvements, not to mention enhanced competitiveness, adoption of a more Agile approach is required. In this presentation, you will learn how the Agile software development approach for high assurance systems addresses many of the challenges found in many highly regulated enterprise environments.

Abstract: This presentation will dispel the myth that requirements are not required for agile development and discuss how the key agile principles and practices apply to requirements across product delivery and why they are relevant for your requirements solution. In addition, guidance will be provided on what requirements artifacts are needed across a life cycle, why they are needed, how they evolve, who is responsible for what and how much is enough.

A CXO said, he expects “superior engineering and value” but how? Jidoka has in its root, a philosophy to approach this. Jidoka crudely could be said to be a system that identifies errors by itself but needs human intelligence to fix it. One of the common outflowing measure is “defect” that explains “what it is not”. Can there be indwelling measures to show “what it IS”. A sharepoint widget has 6- 8 dimensions of requirements. A measure of this shows what requirement IS. This talk covers indwelling measures across engineering for objective decision making

In recent past many organizations are trying to transform to be agile. There are successful and failure stories around this in the industry. Many approaches are there in achieving successful transformation. Most organizations failed in establishing a sustainable adoption. An attempt has been made through this presentation in articulating the essentials of successful transformation.

Many practitioners aspire to become coach. Though most of the community thinks coaching is a simple job, but there is lot more required to be a successful coach. An attempt has been made through this presentation in discussing some of the key aspects to be focused to become an effective Coach.

Behind every practice there is a certain value. It has been observed that most of the teams/organizations focus on practices without the knowing this fact, which leads to master the mechanics of Agile rather on the value system. An attempt has been made through this presentation to establish a strong connect between practice and value.

Use cases are a recognized requirements technique. Smart use cases extend this and make powerful use of the use case diagram, resulting in small, equally granular use cases. Thus projects can define reusable assets in front and back end. They have been applied as unit of work in agile, offshore, .NET, Java, and service oriented projects. With smart use cases comes straightforward estimation, lots of stereotypes, guidelines. This talk demonstrates how to identify, model and estimate smart use cases in projects, with examples from real-life agile, enterprise and offshore projects.

The popularity of agile processes is growing fast. Scrum, XP and Kanban are household names. But with the rising popularity agile projects will fail increasingly in the next years. Agile is no silver bullet. During this talk Sander Hoogendoorn, global agile thought leader at Capgemini, shows how agile projects will fail independent of the process used. Sander elaborates on agile anti-patterns such as Scrumdamentalism, Agile-In-Name-Only, Pseudo-Iterations, guesstimation, Bob-the-Builder Syndrome, Parkinson’s Law, Student Syndrome. With embarrassing anecdotes from real-life projects.