There are no less than 50 viable tools for developing automated unit, functional, and integration tests in Java. Unfortunately, many of these tools are just a different DSL or syntax for the same junk.

In this webinar we will share the five tools for testing Java applications that we use to develop automated tests that are quickly executed, extensive, and extremely readable by other developers.

This talk will provide some extensive hands on knowledge of how to use Hamcrest, Mockito, Powermock, InnerClasses, and Spring.test. Developers will walk away with a smaller, but more powerful toolbox of testing utilities to leverage in their Java projects.

So you are considering going agile, huh? Your biggest question is probably “where do I start?” This webinar will help you answer that question and get you started down the road to agility. Mike Cottmeyer with Pillar Technology will explore how to choose your first project and ensure that the pilot team is setup for success. He will talk through common organizational challenges and show you how to overcome them. You’ll leave this talk with the knowledge necessary to get your first team going while laying the foundation to build on that success.

In becoming resilient one needs the self awareness and willingness to transform existing roles to better align with future vision, mission and goals. In this one-hour webinar on change we will discuss how to increase resiliency in everybody’s daily tasks. This webinar will help you to better understand the dynamics of change & transition, explore what you require to manage stress while accelerating your own transition, and identify how you and your organization can be better prepared for the future.

Teams who implement Agile practices but do not experience success can become frustrated. Are they doing Agile wrong? Maybe, but some problems within Agile cannot be solved by Agile itself. We need to look at a bigger picture. Systems thinking can provide that bigger picture, offering a way to improve our Agile practices and create a process that is customized for the team, the business problem and the current environment. In this Webinar, we will use the Soft Systems Methodology to understand how to identify Agile issues, find leverage points and make incremental improvements.

Join author, speaker and senior agile coach Daryl Kulak to explore the critical role of the Product Owner in an agile environment. Typically a non-IT, business stakeholder, the Product Owner is fundamental to a successful agile development project. Join this webinar to learn more about this critical team role.

Historically, organizations have relied on a manual, subjective test, to determine if a user story is complete. Story Testing is the process of devising an automated test, at the story level, that gives us a precise method of determining if a story is complete. Examples of tools in this space are Fitnesse, Robot Framework, Cucumber, etc. Leveraging a Story Testing approach helps teams learn how to assure that work is broken down in to more manageable segments. Join us to learn how you can create a test-driven approach to a requirements scope.

Having a stable team velocity is critical to delivering a well run and predictable agile project. When organizations begin comparing velocity between teams, or trying to roll-up velocity across teams, many find that team level performance doesn’t necessarily provide an accurate picture of project or portfolio level performance. This talk explores where velocity works, and where velocity fails, and outlines several approaches for tracking project and portfolio performance in more complex software development organizations.