Anyone Can Test
This short video makes the case that good software testers can come from many walks of life and highlights some of the attributes that add up to great software testers.
Lean & Kanban Myths, Misconceptions and Forgotten Principles
This presentation reviews the top 10 myths and misconceptions, along with a few neglected and important principles of Lean thinking that many in software development, including Kanban practitioners, neglect. I first learned about a Kanban approach to development from an apologetic agile practitioner concerned that they’d broken “the rules.” Although …
Big Data at Disney
Disney faces data scale and latency requirements across various business segments that have outpaced the ability of traditional relational data stores to keep up. At Disney Technology and Shared Services, we are tasked with providing cross-company solutions. In order to address this problem we have developed a Data-as-a-Service platform that …
Learning to Love HTML and CSS
Does CSS drive you nuts? Do you struggle through getting your site looking okay on one browser, only to find out that it looks like a trainwreck on others? Do suffer recurring nightmares about Internet Explorer? Do you fight with your designers because they keep sending you things that look …
What’s New in Android Developers’ Tools
This vidoe provides a tour of everything that’s new in Android developer tools, with guidance on how to use them for best results.
Who Should Be Using Scrum?
Jeff Sutherland explains how it is becoming increasingly common for Scrum to first take root in a company’s engineering department and then expand out into other departments throughout the company. He says that “Scrum can double the production of anything – it doesn’t matter whether it’s sales, marketing, software, finance …