Agile Pune 2014
2014-11-21..2014-11-22
Pune, India
as the organisers put it
Agile Pune 2014 is a premier conference on Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Kanban and Lean Software Development. Organiser by the Agile Software Community of India
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Anzeneering – a Journey to Humility, Safety and Excellence | Joshua Kerievsky | 59m |
Claims that treating safety as a precondition yields measurable gains: Alcoa cuts injuries steadily after Paul O'Neal makes “zero injuries” a core value; the… | ||
| The Power of Retrospection | Linda Rising | 01h 44m |
Argues that regular, short retrospectives turn learning into measurable change, using a real-time timeline of color‑coded cards to capture events and emotions… | ||
| Welcome Address | Naresh Jain | 18m |
Conference history: Agile events run since 2004 with a ten‑year streak; this edition has 183 registered, the smallest turnout ever, and attendees from seven… | ||
| Improving Education and Learning in India and Beyond | Julian Harty | 51m |
Shows concrete pilots: 12 Kenyan schools plus sites in India and Chile run offline content on Raspberry Pi clusters and donated Nexus 7 and Kindle devices… | ||
| Panel - Predictability and Productivity...Does Agile Help? | Linda Rising, Joshua Kerievsky, Julian Harty, Gaurav Mehra | 01h 33m |
Panelists argue Agile’s value by example: one team’s velocity spikes from the 50s to the 80s because of story point inflation; a SaaS vendor shrinks year‑long… | ||
| Inverting Test Pyramid - A First Hand Experience Report | Sachin Natu, Naresh Jain | 57m |
Started with ~50% UI automation over two years and ~5–10% unit/service coverage, then flips testing to focus on fast unit and domain-logic tests plus targeted… | ||
| Product Ownership is a Team Sport | Shane Hastie | 01h 29m |
Argues that a single Product Owner cannot cover product management, UX, domain expertise, compliance and stakeholder alignment for anything but tiny… | ||
| eXtreme Programming for ETL and Data Analytics | Prafulla Girgaonkar, Naresh Jain | 48m |
Over the last decade, eXtreme Programming practices like User Stories, Evolutionary Design, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Developer (BDD)… | ||
| The Tao Of Transformation | Dhaval Dalal, Naresh Jain | 01h 47m |
Argues that teams stall at ceremonies and must progress from ritual → practice → principles → values, then demonstrates concrete techniques: three TDD styles… | ||
| Agile Mobile Testing Workshop | Julian Harty | 01h 15m |
Workshop shows how to cut Time To Useful Feedback by combining CI, emulators/simulators and on-device runs and by using ADB logs, crash dumps and analytics… | ||
| To Deploy or Not-to-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend & Failure Analysis | Anand Bagmar | 51m |
Open source web app TTA (Test Trend Analyzer) ingests CI test reports (Jenkins/Hudson/Go etc.) and visualizes trends, pyramids and regressions so decisions use… | ||
| goes Agile: Don't Repeat our Mistakes | Alexey Ilyichev | 49m |
Qik joins Skype in 2011 and a promised March release fails because Skype forces work through ~50 release vehicles (RVs), creating chains of six RVs per product… | ||
| Science or Stories? | Linda Rising | 26m |
Smart people are logical and objective. They (we) look at the evidence to help make the best possible decisions. We are not influenced by hype or emotion and… | ||
| Promiscuous Pairing - Yes it works!!! | Ankur Sambhar | 21m |
Team adopts promiscuous pairing with frequent rotations (example: 60‑minute cycles using a 12/12/6 rotation and short Pomodoro breaks), driver/navigator roles… | ||
| Agility at Scale - Platform versus Product Concerns | Howard Deiner | 47m |
Argues that the real failure in scaling Agile is mixing platform work with product work and proposes splitting platform into an R (research/reference) team… | ||
| Does your Design Smell | Tushar Sharma | 18m |
Cites a study that attributes 64% of defects to design and offers a catalog of 25 smells with causes and refactor recipes. Calls out concrete smells: classes… | ||
| Architectural hiccups (and you really shouldn't bother with sprint-0) | Srinivas Chilara | 49m |
An online poker platform evolves from simple Java clients and a Java-based server to handle 20,000 concurrent players, strict legal game history retention and… | ||
| The Lean Machine | Sneha Kadam | 53m |
Hands-on Lego production game runs three timed iterations with four stations building houses; first iteration uses a push system and produces zero accepted… | ||
| Enterprise Agile Adoption: An Organizational Change Management Journey | Zaheerabbas Contractor | 43m |
An Agile Center of Excellence leads a multi-year enterprise rollout that shifts a 100,000-person services firm from a top-heavy pyramid to an hourglass… | ||
| Fish Bowl | 01h 00m | |
Argument that Scrum is old fashioned and often performed as checklists not mindset, with concrete consequences: rigid product owner roles creating single‑point… | ||
| Closing Talk | Naresh Jain | 15m |
The conference closes by explaining the practical mechanics: sessions are chosen from an open submission system with about ~100 proposals reviewed by a… | ||
| Techniques to Speed Up your Build Pipeline for Faster Feedback | Ashish Parkhi, Naresh Jain | 02m |
Jenkins pipeline time drops from over 90 minutes to under 12 minutes with concrete changes and measured results, not vague advice. Techniques include… | ||
| Science or Stories? | Linda Rising | 01h 07m |
Argues that engineering choices usually follow convincing stories and emotion rather than randomized science, citing Semmelweis’s handwashing that cuts… | ||
| Taming The Dragon | Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam | 36m |
Coaches face a language barrier and strong hierarchy and harmony norms so coaching uses concrete tools: contracts (administrative, professional, psychological)… | ||
| nothing matches | ||