Claire Moss
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Claire Moss is an agilist working as part of product development teams to support and accelerate development through fast feedback. Claire helps teams to craft more executable user stories. Product backlog creator and groomer with emphasis on progressive elaboration. Front-end Javascript development, back-end development in Python or NodeJS. Test automator using Newman, Protractor, Javascript, Selenium, or Python. Testing teacher, unit and integration test review and advisement, exploratory testing coach. Exploratory tester. Agile coach. ScrumMaster. Experience in programming, coaching, project management, product ownership, and technical writing. Software testing meetup founder, conference organizer, speaker, workshop facilitator, author, podcaster, and blogger.
Claire has always had a passion for writing, which might be a strange trait for a discrete mathematician, but that doesn’t stop her from blogging or writing technology articles. After working briefly as a software programmer during college, Claire signed on as a quality engineer after graduation. By now, Claire has been testing software for 15 years. When you find your calling, you never look back! You might say she’s a compulsive empiricist when it comes to software. Claire continues to use her evil powers for good on the job and on her blog.
Claire has been known to say:
I break software. Other people fix it. Best job in the world.
I break it. You buy it.
I use my evil powers for good!
Test everything; retain what is good. — 1 Thessalonians 5:21
I am a big nerd.
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Agile Mindset Explained
60 Mins
Talk
Beginner
So someone sold your company agile, eh? Did it come in the form of a prescribed methodology? Is it the same process just with new names? Did you complete a 2 day training and your title flipped to something like "master" or "ninja"? What's an individual contributor to do?
As Steve Denning explains, "The solution to reconciling disciplined execution and innovation lies in giving greater freedom to those people doing the work to exercise their talents and creativity, but doing so within short cycles so that those doing the work can themselves see whether they are making progress or not."
Follow Claire along the path to agile teammate to discover more about this fabled land of generalizing specialists. We'll range far and wide from "What's the point of points?" to "Can I ban kanban?" so that we can dig deeper into the meaning of practices. Along the way, we'll take in the vistas of visible signs of mindset change and environments that support us along the way.
Let's inspect our current mindset progress and look for opportunities to adapt.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About DevOps But Were Afraid To Ask
60 Mins
Talk
Beginner
As a career software tester, I’ve heard rumors DevOps culture will put me out of a job, so I took a job testing for a DevOps team. I’m new to DevOps, but aren’t we all? What matters most is our teams’ intentional decisions to grow our DevOps practices along with our development community.
Join me as I share my experiences blending disciplines, companies, levels of experience, and differing expectations as a member of efficient and effective delivery teams. I’ll describe common cultural and interpersonal problems I experienced while transforming a cross-functional agile team dogfooding a DevOps implementation.
Whether you’re into development, operations, testing, customer support, or product ownership, you’ll leave with concrete strategies for improving your DevOps working relationships to keep the technology running smoothly. People factors strongly affect your DevOps technical outcomes, so optimizing your flow includes improving your people practices.
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