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Dear Agile Philly member,
As a software development professional we thought you'd want to
know about the
third annual QConSF Conference Nov 18-21 an enterprise software
development conference with 80 technical sessions (Nov 3-5) and 2
days of tutorials (Nov 1-2).
We have arranged a special discount for AgilePhilly
subscribers of an additional $50 off when you use the
discount code "AgilePhilly" when you register for the
conf.
The talks at QCon are chosen by folks just like you, resulting in
over 80 sessions by key luminaries on interesting topics such as
the following highlights:
Kanban - Crossing the line, pushing the limit or rediscovering the
agile vision?
This session will explore how Kanban and LPD differ from
traditional agile methods and how these differences can be used to
find real solutions to real problems in situations where
traditional methods fall short. We will also go through a series of
steps that show when and how some practices can be dropped and how
a team might benefit from it.
Big Ball of Mud: Is This the Best that Agile can Do?
This talk will examine the paradoxes that underlie Big Balls of
Mud, what causes them, and why they are so prominent. What Agile
Practices help us avoid or cope with mud? Does Agile practices such
as TDD really help minimize mud? What are we doing RIGHT? What
Agile Practices contribute to the problem? Encourage mud? Is Mud
really the best that Agile can do? Is Agility's utilitarian focus
on process rather than design its secret weapon, or its Achilles
heel?
Some of this year's 80+ speakers include:
Doing the Impossible at IMVU Inc: Deploying to Production 50 Times
a Day
This talk will cover the theory behind why shipping more frequently
will make deployment dramatically better while enabling an entirely
new level of agility at your organization. Of course theory is
great in theory, so this talk will also cover the specific
implementation at work in IMVU Inc, and talk to what scalability
issues we've had to solve to make Continuous Deployment work with a
50 person technical staff.
Keeping Agile Agile
Dan argues that best practices are useful only up to a point, and
that rigidly enforcing them is counter to the values of Agile and
will eventually drive away your best people. He looks at the
motivations behind Agile initiatives and introduces the Dreyfus
model of skills acquisition to explore how effective best practices
really are.
On Nov 1st and 2nd, QCon hosts 2 days of tutorials prior to
the conference. These are full day sessions offering deep dives on
the following topics:
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We hope you can join us for this year's QCon San Francisco.
Register before September 30th and save up to $400. We
have arranged a special discount for AgilePhilly subscribers of an
additional 50$ off when you use the discount code
"AgilePhilly". Group discounts are available! |
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