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Project Management: Sessions will show attendees how to manage software development projects with success.

Backlog Refinement: Success factor for SCRUM and engine for change management

Nils Hyoma

According to Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-founders of SCRUM, backlog refinement forms the backbone of a functioning Scrum Team. However, the Scrum Guide is largely silent on how this important event can be successfully established in the development process. The document only devotes a short and c

Date/Time: Thursday, August 19, 2021 9:45 AM
Room: Dean
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Winning as the Home Team

Michael Dowden

The process of building Great Software can be broken down to a number of processes and attributes that center around communication. From requirements to code to documentation, standups to retrospectives, we build our software teams around specific interactions and communication channels. The typical

Date/Time: Thursday, August 19, 2021 2:45 PM
Room: Johnson
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Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks

Joe Winchester; John Mertic

The Mainframe computer is over 65 years old, and has a dual personality of either being viewed as a proprietary thing of the past or else a hidden closed locked down machine as espoused in Hollywood movie plots. The truth is neither, and a huge amount of mainframe computing workload today comes fro

Date/Time: Friday, August 20, 2021 9:45 AM
Room: Feinler
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Oh! The Humanity

Jon Fazzaro

“Agile” is a bit lost. Like a couch potato resolving to go to the gym in January, we threw off the chains of Scientific Management and declared a manifesto of people-centered values. And here we are in our February, right back on the couch. We prescribe process and certification. We try to do *l

Date/Time: Friday, August 20, 2021 4:00 PM
Room: Johnson
Topics: Project Management
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