Nicholas Tuck
Technology innovation isn't about giving people what they want but what they don’t know they need.
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Nicholas Tuck is an all purpose software gardener with a broad range of experience from startups, to enterprise level web services. He's worked in many industries including Air Force Weather, Locomotives, Property Management, Health, and most recently Online Live Auctions. Nick's "Why" is to impact the world through game changing software solutions. He believes in finding the right tools for the right job and has spent the last decade experimenting with many of them. He experiments with technical tools, like languages, libraries and architectures, as well as processes like true continuous integration and ShipIt Days. On top of technological achievements, Nick has formed cultures of change, innovation and empowered teams. He believes in radical candor and is prepared to rock the boat to accelerate change. He's a Software Gardener at Proxibid and a Co-Founder of the Agile for Defense meetup in the Omaha area, spreading these practices to the military industry. Nick's goal as a speaker is to share the discoveries and experiments of his career and help others accelerate their productive abilities by breaking away from the socially accepted notions of programming. You can find more ideas from Nick at http://TheSoftwareGardener.com.
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Something’s Rotten in the State of Quality
Developers, do you really trust QAs when they find a “bug"? QA folks, do you believe that developers have tested their work before they hand it over? You may identify with this atmosphere of contention surrounding QA. But there’s one underlying question for every team: are we building a quality product?
The definition of quality should go beyond a list of test cases executed against requirements. From the father of the quality revolution, Edward Deming, to the work of Martin Fowler and Mike Cohn, we’ll lay a theoretical groundwork for what quality is, then we will showcase these definitions with examples. We’ll end with specific activities along the software development life cycle that actually help assure quality. You’ll take away what it truly means to assure quality as well as ways to start putting it into practice.
If you’re a developer, project manager, product owner, BA, or QA tester, this talk is for you.
Stop, Collaborate & Listen
Remember back to the best work you’ve ever done with a team of people. There was room for creativity, open & free-wheeling dialogue, a sense of excitement to dig into the work. Why did it go so well? Because the foundations were in place to make working in concert possible.
Teams accomplish more than individuals. We need to maximize that work using more interesting, creative and most importantly effective solutions to collaborating. Join for a deep dive on how and when to apply a host of proven and novel techniques.
Nicholas Tuck
Technology innovation isn't about giving people what they want but what they don’t know they need.
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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