Deliver slower. Spend more money while you deliver that software. Go ahead and take your time, we can wait for that new functionality….. Said no customer ever!

It would be hard to deny that our world seems to be moving faster than ever.

There is more than one way to deliver faster. One is to incrementally get things in front of your customers rapidly. Another is to make sure we do not waste time building the wrong thing. How does Continuous Delivery address these concerns and at the same time help us eliminate many of the risks inherent in software development?

Join Cheezy as he brings his years of experience on how this is done in different environments and contexts. In this talk you will learn how Continuous Delivery is done right and why you might want to consider it for you company.

Deliver slower. Spend more money while you deliver that software. Go ahead and take your time, we can wait for that new functionality….. Said no customer ever!

It would be hard to deny that our world seems to be moving faster than ever.

There is more than one way to deliver faster. One is to incrementally get things in front of your customers rapidly. Another is to make sure we do not waste time building the wrong thing. How does Continuous Delivery address these concerns and at the same time help us eliminate many of the risks inherent in software development?

Join Cheezy as he brings his years of experience on how this is done in different environments and contexts. In this talk you will learn how Continuous Delivery is done right and why you might want to consider it for you company.

In today’s fast paced world, we in the Agile community have gotten better at organizing and prioritizing work. We have learned how to focus on high value and eliminate waste in our processes. And yet so much of Agile these days is focused on how we move work from an idea to production while ignoring or undervaluing how to build high quality working software. Our focus is on how to hold retrospectives, collaborate with product owners, and hold daily standups but very little attention has been paid to how we write and test code. This puts your business at risk.

Join Cheezy as he talks about how we often miss the target in our “Agile Implementations”. Instead, he will challenge us to focus on technical excellence as the true Path to Agility. His lightweight approach for teams to deliver software with Zero Defects strips most methodologies down to their bare essence. This allows teams to focus on what is really important - rapidly delivering working software to customers. If you’re ready to take the next step in your agile journey then you won’t want to miss this talk.

In today’s fast paced world, we in the Agile community have gotten better at organizing and prioritizing work. We have learned how to focus on high value and eliminate waste in our processes. And yet so much of Agile these days is focused on how we move work from an idea to production while ignoring or undervaluing how to build high quality working software. Our focus is on how to hold retrospectives, collaborate with product owners, and hold daily standups but very little attention has been paid to how we write and test code. This puts your business at risk.

Join Cheezy as he talks about how we often miss the target in our “Agile Implementations”. Instead, he will challenge us to focus on technical excellence as the true Path to Agility. His lightweight approach for teams to deliver software with Zero Defects strips most methodologies down to their bare essence. This allows teams to focus on what is really important - rapidly delivering working software to customers. If you’re ready to take the next step in your agile journey then you won’t want to miss this talk.

It wasn't long ago that everybody thought "Continuous Deliver" was only for tech companies.  It is amazing how much things have changed over the past two years.  More and more enterprises are exploring what it will take to achieve Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment for their core customer facing applications.  The challenge for these companies is that many of the practices and processes they have put in place over the years stand in the way of achieving this goal. From rigorous engineering practices, to a very different view on product ownership, to organizational restructuring, to streamline the software development pipeline, Continuous Delivery .i.e. the ability to reliably release software at any time requires a significant shift in the mindset.

Join Cheezy as points out several Continuous Deliver anti-patterns and how to avoid or eliminate these patterns within your organization in order to align your development value stream, operations, release management, and product owners.  If you want to know what it takes to achieve Continuous Deliver then this is one talk that you will not want to miss.

You've heard that quality belongs to everybody on an Agile team. You've heard that testers and developers should "collaborate" in order to drive quality higher. You've heard that automated tests help a team continuously validate the quality. It's time to stop thinking about it! It's time to stop talking about it! It's time to make it happen! 

Watch Ardi and Cheezy do this in front of your eyes. They will build a web application driven by acceptance and unit tests.You will see how a Product Owner, Tester and Developer will create executable User stories, develop the code to validate these stories and refactor along the way. At the end, you will get a taste of what a Continuos Delivery pipeline looks like. Prepare to collect your jaws from the floor!

Many organizations are introducing test automation only to find out it is more difficult than they thought it would be. Good test automation requires good coding practices. Good test automation requires good design. To do anything else will lead to spaghetti code that is hard to maintain or update. If you’re new to coding or new to automation it is difficult to know where to start. Join Cheezy as he talks about and demonstrates lessons he has learned while helping numerous organization adopt test automation.

This all day workshop will be run as a code retreat.  In the workshop Cheezy will introduce a pattern by discussing it and writing code to implement the it.  Then it is your turn.  You will build out some automation against a simple web application utilizing this pattern.  Each subsequent pattern will take you closer and closer to clean well factored automation code taking you on a journey from theory to implementation.