The following keynote speakers were part of the 2008 PNSQC two-day technical program, held October 14 and 15, 2008.
Videos for both of these presentations are now available below (requires PNSQC membership).
The Art of Building ConsensusSam KanerMaking high-quality, high-stake decisions in groups is not easy. Making them in cross-functional groups is even tougher. The diversity in the room breeds misunderstanding, confusion, and frustration. All too often these meetings end with predictably mediocre results – people either accept lowest-common-denominator compromises, or they punt the tough issues to a senior person, so s/he can make the real decisions later. In both cases, one is left wondering, “Why call such meetings in the first place?” This morning’s keynote is a fascinating tour de force description of what it takes to build consensus in real-world cross-functional environments. Sam Kaner, one of the world’s leading experts in multi-party collaboration, will share models and methods that have been used successfully at HP, Symantec, Electronic Arts, VISA, and hundreds of other organizations. You will walk away with powerful new insights and a set of tools you can use right away. View video (member access only): [hidepost]
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Quality Dynamics of Agile SW DevelopmentRon Jeffries & Chet HendricksonAs Agile software proponents, we have spent much of our time explaining XP and Agile practices and why they make sense. Generally we talk about these things from a “supply side” viewpoint. We think about software development and how it works best, from the trenches. Let’s focus on the “demand” side . Let’s look at the needs of those who pay for our software development. They need benefits, profit, information, and flexibility. It turns out that in order to provide what the business side needs, Agile and XP practices are not just helpful – they are almost essential. Starting from a few simple and commonly held assumptions, we will explore the dynamic behavior of a software project, and will derive both management practices, and technical practices, as the inevitable consequences of setting out to do with what our business-side people need and want. This keynote is a start at creating a unified theory of team-based software development, deriving the practices that are necessary in order to do software profitably and well. Our presentation will be based around a growing series of graphs and pictures illustrating what happens on a software project. Relationships between practices – what we do -and what happens – will be shown with both static and dynamic charts. View video (member access only): [hidepost]
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