Five for Friday – 8/11/2023
How to Keep Your Product Development on Course with the 1 in 60 Rule
In aviation, the "1 in 60 Rule" is a rule of thumb used by pilots to approximate heading errors and the necessary course corrections. In a nutshell, it states that for each degree off course over a distance of 60…
[Agile Iowa] ‘Theranos: An Agile Anti-pattern Case Study’ by Kevin Sutherland
Talk Description: Once valued at over $10 Billion, the biotech company Theranos claimed to have invented a device capable of running hundreds of blood tests from a single drop of blood. Theranos was ultimately unable to make good on this…
[DAQAA] ‘Worldwide Trends in QA’ by Vikas Mathur
Vikas will be doing a brief readout & discussion of the 12th World Quality Report released by CapGemini in association with Micro Focus. The report covers topics such as QA in agile and devops, AI and ML, Budgets and Cost…
[Des Moines Data & Analytics] ‘Agile in Analytics’ at John Deere ISG
Being able to move fast and be agile is extremely important to any analytics teams. So is developing the right analytics products. Join us at John Deere’s Integrated Solution Group (ISG) as Liz Conzo, Precision Ag Analytics Leader, and Sam…
Forget about Agile: Keep the focus on quality
In May I attended my first software testing conference in person, STAREAST in Orlando. I sat through most of the sessions, taking notes, which is in part why I was a bit caught off guard when the first speaker of the day said…