Agile Webinars

Our Agile Webinar series features a variety of ThoughtWorks Agile experts discussing a range of subjects. If you miss out on a live session, all webinars are archived and can watched later.

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Archived Webinars

  • The Financial and Budgetary Impact of Agile and Lean
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    Ross Pettit Client Principal, ThoughtWorks elaborates on the financial risks of ‘leaned-out IT.’ Agile teams are better aligned with corporate financial priorities, enable a higher rate of capitalization, consume less cash, provide better cash management, protect yields and reduce exposure to "black swan" events. But liquidity and solvency threats are loops that IT must mitigate.

  • Selecting the Right Agile Tools
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    Cyndi Mitchell, Managing Director ThoughtWorks Studios on how to choose tools that are fit for teams across your organization. She will also discuss the philosophy behind ThoughtWorks Studios’ Adaptive ALM: one that fulfills a mission that Agile tools must improve the lives of everyone in your team by providing just the right level of support for collaboration, management and engineering practices.

  • Mingle User Group: Continuous Delivery and Mingle Best Practices
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    The ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle User Group meeting, an interactive webinar was on Thursday, 13th April. At this event, a Fortune 500 customer and cloud computing guru showcased Mingle and shared how it has been used successfully in their enterprise environments. They also revealed tips and tricks on how to optimize Mingle in IT organizations as well as discussed continuous delivery, an emerging IT best practice.

  • Agile Metrics that Matter
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    Patricia Carlin, General Manager ThoughtWorks, talks about Metrics versus Diagnostics, Reporting Progress and Providing Visibility and the necessity of producing metrics that add value and eliminating metrics that are now deemed irrelevant. The discussion also comprises guidelines on effectively using metrics on an Agile project as well as different types of metrics used on ThoughtWorks projects.

  • Making Feedback Work in Agile Teams
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    Sumeet Moghe, Training Manager, ThoughtWorks, shares the key to success in Agile teams. Feedback in peer groups facilitates a shift from ‘forming, storming and norming’ to the most effective stage in the Tuckman's model - performing. This aspect, an important concern of luminaries in the Agile world such as Esther Derby, Johanna Rothman, Norman Kerth, Alistair Cockburn and Martin Fowler is discussed in deep detail.

  • Go User Group: Discussing Continuous Delivery
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    ThoughtWorks Studios invites you to join the first Go User Group meeting. During this interactive and informative webinar, Premium Credit Limited (a Bank of America company) will showcase how Go is being used successfully in their enterprise environments and how it enables them to practice Continuous Delivery.

    Chad Wathington, VP - Product Development, will also share inside tips on getting the best from environments in Go. Our product experts will demonstrate how to migrate effortlessly from an open source CI tool to Go in your organization.

  • Where Exploration and Automation Meet: Leveraging Your Investment in Automated Functional Tests
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    Andy Kemp, Product Manager - Twist, ThoughtWorks Studios discusses the best way to utilize automated functional testing within your organization. Agile teams invest heavily in automated functional tests. When done well, this investment is returned in the form of fast feedback. This enables teams to release software quickly and often. By structuring tests in the right way, teams can further leverage this advantage by using these tests as a platform for exploratory testing that can find issues a regression test suite won't.

  • Supporting Agile Teams From the Top
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    Patricia Mandarino, Lead Consultant, ThoughtWorks, talks about what you need to do as a champion to facilitate a productive transition to Agile. As a Leader you have made a commitment to implementing an Agile development methodology within your organization. You communicate the directive (that's what it feels like to your teams) and you provide training for your teams. But that's not enough to insure success. What more can you do?

  • Agile ALM: Redefining ALM with Five Key Practices
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    Chad Wathington, VP of Product Development, ThoughtWorks Studios introduces an entirely new and current approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM): Agile ALM. This approach outlines 5 key organizational practices that helps IT organizations meet increasing customer expectations and quickly adapt to competitive pressures through the design, development, and Continuous Delivery of high quality software.

  • Succeeding with Globally Distributed Agile
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    Sameer Deans, Delivery Manager, ThoughtWorks on choosing Agile practices for your software development project. And on what happens when the offshore value proposition comes along with the fact that the delivery team is spread over several locations.

  • Applying Agile to Multi-Team Projects
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    Adam Monago, VP of Client Services, ThoughtWorks Studios talks about managing software projects when just one team is involved is tricky enough. After all, apply Agile concepts to large programs or portfolios and the many challenges reveal themselves. This presentation uses examples of experiences with clients around the world to shed light on best practices as well as avoidable pitfalls when applying Agile to multi-team development projects.

  • What They Didn't Tell You About Architecture in Agile Development
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    Sriram Narayan, Tech Principal, ThoughtWorks, explores the role and relevance of architecture in Agile development. He will also discuss ways to reconcile the desire for a coherent and well-designed architecture with decentralized decision making when working on large projects with multiple teams.

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