Management Track
Day 1 - September 10, 2019
Adam
9:00-9:45am
Room: Sterling
Keynote: Company Vision And Roadmap
Andreas
9:45-10:30am
Room: Savanna
Customer Case Study: Generali
Andreas from Generali will present on the different ways that Generali has been using SpiraTeam to plan and manage their IT projects. It will include a discussion of the various tools they have integrated with SpiraTeam, the business benefits, and lessons learned.
Adam
10:45-11:30am
Room: Savanna
The Future of ALM - All Silos Are Banned
Let’s explore application lifecycle management (ALM), past, present and future. The session will introduce the different disciplines that comprise ALM, including requirements analysis, planning, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. It will present a high-level deployment architecture for implementing ALM, with recommendation for ways to break down the silos between different organizations and disciplines.
Simon
11:30am-12:15pm
Room: Savanna
Program And Portfolio Management
Hear about the new program and portfolio features available in SpiraPlan. We will discuss how you can (and why you would want to) organize products intoprograms and programs into portfolios. We will cover the new dashboards and visualizations to help you plan and manage your releases and program milestones.
Jeffery
1:00-1:45pm
Room: Sterling
Keynote: Continuous Testing: Fact Or Fiction?
Sriram
1:45-2:30pm
Room: Savanna
Methodologies 1: Managing Agile Projects
Learn best practices for using SpiraTeam or SpiraPlan to manage agile projects. Using Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming as references, we will focus on Spira’s Agile planning boards, including the view specifically designed for Scrum and Kanban. It will cover estimation, backlog, release, and sprint planning.
Sriram
2:30-3:15pm
Room: Savanna
Methodologies 2: Scaling Agile
We will build on Methodologies 1 to look at the different ways you can scale your agile projects into programs using SpiraPlan. WE will consider several different approaches including SAFe and the Nexus model of Scrum. We will demonstrate how you can implement these different methods in SpiraPlan.
Dennis
3:30-4:15pm
Room: Savanna
Case study: PTALife’s 10 years With Spira
One of our key long term customers and partner – PTA in Germany has been using Spira for the past 10 years to manage their entire software development lifecycle across multiple engagements and projects. Dennis from PTA will be providing his perspective on how you can use Spira successfully across different projects and what best practices and lessons learned have been codified at PTA.
Peter
4:15-5:00pm
Room: Savanna
Say Goodbye To Old Tools And Stay Sane
One of the hardest challenges our customers face is helping their users moveon from legacy tools and processes such as Excel, Word or stove-piped legacy tools such as Micro Focus ALM, UFT, Bugzilla, etc. We will present a roadmap to helping users adapt to the concepts in the Inflectra toolset (primarily Spira and Rapise) and give you handy tips and quick wins to keep your users happy and engaged.
Day 2 - September 11, 2019
Dennis
9:00-9:45am
Room: Sterling
Keynote: AI - The Origin Story
Peter
9:45-10:30am
Room: Savanna
Risk Management With SpiraPlan
We recently added a new risk management module to our Spira platform. Wewill demonstrate the end-to-end workflow for using these new features. We will cover the risk management lifecycle, from identifying and analyzing risks, to evaluating and treating them with mitigations, and action items (tasks). We will also discuss the methodologies used for ranking risks by probability and impact and how you can customize the exposure metrics used by Spira.
Alexey
10:45-11:30am
Room: Savanna
Automating Test Maintenance
We will take a deep dive into maintenance of tests. You will learn how to fix a test to adapt to application changes. We will also demonstrate AI-based self-healing locators in Rapise.
Jeffery
11:30am-12:45pm
Room: Savanna
What Happened To My Testers?
Sriram
1:00-1:45pm
Room: Savanna
Methodologies 3: Using Spira For Waterfall
We will demonstrate the recommended way to use Spira for waterfall or agile/hybrid projects. We will explain how to use the requirements, test case and task modules to plan a typical waterfall project. We will cover the best way to setup the releases and phases to support waterfall and V-model style projects, how to configure testing for unit, integration, and user acceptance testing.
Sriram
1:45-2:30pm
Room: Savanna
Requirements Management: Best Practices
We will outline the best practices for writing project and product requirements in Spira. We will include an overview of the requirements workflow, approvals, signoff, and comment tracking. We will also discuss ideas for using different requirement types such as user stories and use cases, and give recommendations for using packages, epics, and components.
Remco
2:45-3:30pm
Room: Savanna
Compare & Contrast How Industries Use Spira
One of our long-term users and evangelists – Remo Putker - will present some different approaches for using Spira based on his experiences using Spira in different industries. Remco has been instrumental in deployment andmanaging Spira in companies as diverse as the Dutch Post Office, British Petroleum, a Mental Health provider, and other industries within the Benelux region.
Jessica
3:30-4:15pm
Room: Savanna
Panel Discussion
We will bring a number of our speakers together to discuss your questions around ways to use the Inflectra platform. Our moderator will facilitate a lively discussion around topics suggested by attendees during day one of theconference.