Andy Painter
Agile Technologist
Andy Painter is the Co-Founder of Institute Success and Institute Agility. Institute Success focuses on helping leaders become an Engaged Company™ by developing their leaders and teams. Institute Agility focuses on helping organizations ignite the spirit of agility in one heart, one team, one organization at a time.Andy has over 25 years of software development experience as a developer, architect, tester, manager and executive. Over the two decades, Andy has coupled deep technology experience with Agile practices to create teams and environments that are hyper-productive. Over the last decade, Andy has added a focus of developing leaders and organizations to unlock their potential to achieve new levels of success. Andy helps and inspires leaders to take a people-first approach to both leadership and agility.
Presentations
The Top Agile Pitfalls that Lead to Trouble
9:00 AM MDT
Although Agile has proven to provide incredible benefits in software development and delivery, it is not foolproof, nor a “Silver Bullet.” Plenty of factors need to be considered before attempting this highly disciplined approach.
Learn from the mistakes other organizations have made and discover which pitfalls to avoid to ensure that your first attempt at applying an Agile approach will be met with a successful outcome. This hour-long web seminar will explore these areas and provide clear steps your team and organization should consider to provide a clear set of tools to maximize the opportunity for best results possible.
The Disciplined Agile Team
10:45 AM MDT
Some come to Agile assuming it involves less discipline than their traditional methods, but this is a misperception. Today, the need for discipline in software development is greater than it ever was. Agile answers that need, arriving at discipline through the Team. Agile Teams must collaborate to develop strong discipline in both planning and execution.
We'll discuss how teams can obtain Agile discipline to achieve one of our core principles of delivering “working software” frequently. We'll explore some of the key Agile planning and engineering practices like continuous planning, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Acceptance testing. We'll look at the discipline involved in these practices, their inter-relationship, and the benefits they realize in delivering value to the customer.
GIVEN poor results WHEN developing software THEN use SbE
1:30 PM MDT
Discuss how Specification by Example (SbE) can improve the quality of our software. We'll discuss what SbE is and the key activities to successfully utilize SbE to improve our results.
TBDDiscuss how Specification by Example can improve the quality of our software. We'll discuss what SbE is and the key activities to successfully utilize SbE to improve our results.
- Derive Scope from Business Goals
- Specify Examples Collaboratively
- Specification with Examples
- Automate examples
- Validate Specification Frequently
- Produce Living Documentation
Scaling Agility with SAFe
3:15 PM MDT
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is quickly becoming one of the leading frameworks to scaled agility within organizations of size. In this session we'll explore the foundational elements of an effective SAFe program.
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is quickly becoming one of the leading frameworks to scaled agility within organizations of size. In this session we'll explore the foundational elements of an effective SAFe program. We'll compare SAFe with some of the other scaling frameworks such as LeSS and DAD to see common themes and key considerations in any successful scaling effort. We'll discuss some commons themes in failed scaling efforts.