David Turner
The One Bad Thing about BDD: BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) says to write executable specs that you can share with your customer. This idea is almost entirely brilliant, except for one thing. I'll discuss how to fix that one thing and thereby show how to make BDD into an entirely brilliant idea.
Bio: David has spent the last 6 years at Tracsis plc working with a fantastic team of developers and doing his best to keep management and other obstructions out of their way. Sent half-mad by the experience of trying to retrofit an agile approach to a 40-year-old system written in a Lovecraftian combination of FORTRAN, Borland C++ 5 and C# 2, his team now writes production systems in Haskell.
Geoff Bowden
Sketchnoting Agile (one doodle at a time): In this talk we take a lightening tour through what sketchnoting is about, who can do it and how it can be used by a scrum master to promote interactions
within the team. The talk will show sketchnoting examples and resources for learning and some of the presenter's own scribbles. If you think you can't draw, after seeing his attempts, your own won't look so bad.
Bio: Geoff Bowden is a developer and scrum master working for Egton Digital making websites, intranets and mobile apps for corporate and NHS customers. After spending 20 years as a Waterfallian developer and planner he ran out of fingers and toes on which to count his experience and transitioned to agile methods. Now an Agile advocate he goes to meetings to talk to and learn from fellow Agilites. When not in the office writing human readable code and talking about SCRUM he can be found at home being used as a climbing frame by his young children or practicing his new found hobby of doodling.
Kiran Singh
A Flying Experience: A tiny glimpse of how flying works on a light aircraft, from my experience while undergoing training in the Indian Air Force in the 1990s.
Bio: Kiran is a .Net lead developer passionate about Agile test driven development; currently working as a consultant for Aviva in York.
Karen Logan Smith
Winning with Agile: A quick talk about Quick Wins Agile allows a great to approach to improving existing design. Learn when, why and how to carry out rapid enhancements that can hugely affect user experience and journey effectiveness and how you and your team can have fun doing it.
Bio: A Lead Digital Analyst at HSBC, I specialise in creating and enhancing online banking journeys. I have 15 years experience of digital technology development, project management and analysis and have owned digital change within huge strategic programmes and rapid tactical projects and lived to tell the tale.
Steve Trapps
Being in an Awesome Agile Team: My part of working in one of the best Agile Teams I've ever worked in. I'll discuss the highs and lows, what worked well and what didn't and why it ultimately failed.
Bio: Developer, Scrum Master & Agile Advocate with too many years trying to make software development work.
Michael Crane
TDD 101: A brief summary of Test Driven Development and some of the key benefits.
Bio: Principal Engineer, Hermes UK
Susana Lobao
Resistance when Transitioning From Waterfall to Agile Scrum : My talk is about resistance among developers and QA teams when transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Scrum and some key actions to bring the levels down. The beginning of any transition starts with a major announcement …followed by the Agile Coach. How do Dev and QA teams feel about it? Why do they resist? How do we reduce the levels of resistance? The key is to understand Agile Scrum as a cultural change and stop thinking about our resistors as problems to overcome.
Bio: I have worked in the retail industry for many years (hey, who says retail is not fun????) in various roles all related to data and BI. Recently, I moved to another retailer and became a Technical Delivery Manager. I was given the opportunity to actively be involved with the transformation from Waterfall to Agile Scrum. It is a tough journey full of challenges but one full of rewards.
Matthew Skelton
How to Bridge the Dev-DBA chasm: Forget the gap between Dev and Ops - the gap between Devs and DBAs is a chasm. Here are some observations from the field about the causes of the rift and some ideas about how to close the gap (and even whether the gap is worth closing). Oh, and I'm writing a book about it.
Jon Fulton
