Speaker: Robert Sabourin
Robert Sabourin has more than twenty-five years of management experience, leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Robert has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. The author of I am a Bug!, the popular software testing childrens book, Robert is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at McGill University.
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Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire - Efficiency in Scrum
thursday 17:45 - 18:40
In this keynote Robert Sabourin shares several case studies highlighting terrible failures and brilliant successes in constructing an efficient SCRUM project. Some teams dramatically fail to achieve a balance of building a solid framework at the expense of adding expedient features. Other teams adapt and achieve a powerful stasis efficiently delivering value to customers and many other important stakeholders as well.
A Just In Time Testing Primer for Developers
tuesday - all day
Developers are charged with the challenge of developing software at lightning speed often using new and unreliable technologies. This course explores how developers can focus on creating deliverables that work.
What Not To Test!
friday 15:35 - 16:25
This presentation explores some practical and systematic approaches to organizing and triaging testing ideas. Testing ideas are influenced by risk and importance to your business. Information is coming at your from all angles - how can it be used to prioritize testing and focus on the test with the most value? Triage of testing ideas, assessing credibility and impact estimation can be used to help decide what to do when the going gets tough!
