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Thriving in Toxicity

Strategies for Navigating a Difficult Workplace

High turnover, endless negativity, the Everyday Scaries, and the Sunday Night Dreads. Is your workplace draining your energy and affecting your well-being?

Join Tara Scott, Jim Benson, and Tonianne DeMaria as they explore the signs of a toxic work environment and equip you with practical strategies to navigate challenging situations, protect your mental health, and thrive despite the negativity. Discover how to set boundaries, communicate effectively, and build resilience amid dysfunction.
October 30, 2024
10am PDT (1pm EDT, 5pm GMT)

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10 Weeks to Launch

Behind-the-Scenes Look at
Rapid Product Development

Launching a tech startup is like stepping off a cliff and building your wings on the way down. As a fledgling company trying to disrupt the business security systems industry, our client faced the classic startup dilemma - a groundbreaking idea but no users, no funding, and a mountain of technical decisions.

Learn how Industrial Logic helped a tech startup go from an idea to working software in production and at a trade show in 10 weeks. All while using both familiar as well as unfamiliar tools & technology.
Watch Again recorded on October 23, 2024

Stop Repetitive Manual Checks

How Automation Values Your QA Team

Are you truly maximizing your testers' talents?

Join Josh, Perry, and Mike as they discuss the transformation happening in QA. Learn how shifting from repetitive manual testing to automation can help your team be more efficient, reduce errors, and allow your testers to do the work that really counts.

It's time to respect and utilize their full potential!
Watch Again recorded on October 16, 2024

Long Distance BDD

Working Effectively with Remote Developers

Is there a secret to effective software development across great geographical distances? There is!

While it goes by different names, the essence of the practice is to share mini-specifications that provide tightly scoped, unambiguous direction for implementers.

Joshua Kerievsky and Wyatt Sutherland will share real-world stories and describe how this approach works in practice.
Watch Again recorded on October 9, 2024

Rescuing Legacy Code

Experiences From The Field

“You just don’t understand our system. It’s too complex.” Sound familiar? You just might have a legacy codebase on your hands.

Don’t fret, though - the good news is, we know TONS of tips and tricks to get back on track.

Join Amber Conville, Perry Reid, and Wyatt Sutherland as they talk about how we can wrap a safety net around the codebase and start working towards small, incremental changes - even in the most spaghettified environment.
Watch Again recorded on October 2, 2024

Stop Shielding Devs from Users

Unlock Value with Inner Collaboration

The traditional approach of shielding developers from end-users can hinder product development. This separation leads to misunderstandings, slow feedback loops, and missed opportunities for delivering the most important end-user needs.

By fostering direct collaboration between developers and users, teams can better understand real-world needs, create empathy for their customer’s circumstances, quickly address pain points, and create more user-centric products.
Watch Again recorded on September 25, 2024

Ensembling with QA/BA/PM

Experiences with Cross-Discipline Collaboration

Do you think mob programming is only for developers? Non-developers can be a valuable addition to the ensemble, and they can join in the rotation as part of the work.

Incorporating all team members into the ensemble builds a strong, common mental model of the work, enables timely communication, prevents bugs or defects, and reduces context switching and distractions from asynchronous communications such as Slack, email, and tickets.
Watch Again recorded on September 18, 2024

Lowering the Cost of Big Figma

How To Ship Designs Incrementally

Are you drowning in overly complex Figma designs? Did you just receive a giant Figma file from your UX designer, and now you are not sure where to start? It’s pixel-perfect and will take you months to deliver.

Why not start with a walking skeleton first? Then, you can start getting feedback from your users early and often.
Watch Again recorded on September 11, 2024

TDD

You're Doing It Wrong

You ARE doing TDD wrong - but it's probably not your fault! Your problems with TDD may be due to your training, not your abilities. We reviewed many TDD tutorials; they mostly got it wrong. And not just a little wrong, either. They are wrong in several fundamental ways.

Have you been misled? Join Tim Ottinger and John Borys to learn what you've been missing and what you need to understand about this important programming discipline.
Watch Again recorded on September 4, 2024

Working Sprintless

Agility Without Time Boxes

While it may seem like Sprinting is essential to being agile, it truly isn’t. The vast majority of people who Sprint haven’t actually tried working without Sprints. It’s liberating. No more time spent guessing how much work fits into a time box. No more compromising on quality when you bit off more than you could chew. And no more waiting until the end of a standard time box to demo, plan, and adapt. There’s a faster, easier, and more graceful way to work based on continuous flow, quality work, and everyday adaptability.

Join Joshua Kerievsky and Cecil G. Williams for an engaging discussion.
Watch Again recorded on August 29, 2024

Deadlines, Discovery, and Delivery

Can We Have It All?

Many organizations state they want to make sure they’re building a product their users want, but all too often arbitrary deadlines and the fear of not making a specific date means discovery work gets ramped back or not explored at all.

What if you could actually do both? Quick iterations of discovery work with a fast turnaround to make sure you’re delivering the right thing? Join us as we dig into what happens when discovery work is baked into your product iterations - and what happens when you’re stuck in a game of chasing deadlines without much validation.
Watch Again recorded on August 21, 2024

After The CrowdStrike Disruption

Proven Practices to Prevent Software Fiascos

Now that the CrowdStrike outage is over, join Cecil Williams and Tim Ottinger as they discuss well-known practices that are not as widely used as they should be - practices that prevent serious issues, limit damage, and speed recovery from bad releases.

These practices can become as commonplace in your company as ours.
Watch Again recorded on August 7, 2024

Joy of Agility

Be Readily Resourceful

Be Readily Resourceful - Solve problems without hesitation by being quick, clever, and creative.

Joshua Kerievsky’s most recent publication, Joy of Agility, encapsulates over twenty years of exploration, education, adaptation, and introspection on the essence of agility.

Join Joshua and Barton Friedland as they explore the sixth mantra of the book.

Watch Again recorded on July 31, 2024

Joy of Agility

Drive Out Fear

Drive Out Fear - Make safety a prerequisite to protect people and pave the way for high performance.

Joshua Kerievsky’s most recent publication, Joy of Agility, encapsulates over twenty years of exploration, education, adaptation, and introspection on the essence of agility.

Join Joshua and Linda Rising as they explore the fifth mantra of the book.

Watch Again recorded on July 24, 2024

Joy of Agility

Start Minimal and Evolve

Start Minimal and Evolve - Begin quickly and easily with something basic and rapidly improve it based on what you learn.

Joshua Kerievsky’s most recent publication, Joy of Agility, encapsulates over twenty years of exploration, education, adaptation, and introspection on the essence of agility.

Join Joshua and John Cutler as they explore the fourth mantra of the book.

Watch Again recorded on July 17, 2024

Joy of Agility

Be Poised to Adapt

Be Poised to Adapt - Develop a readiness to revise or respond quickly and easily to change.

Joshua Kerievsky’s most recent publication, Joy of Agility, encapsulates over twenty years of exploration, education, adaptation, and introspection on the essence of agility.

Join Joshua and Colleen Johnson as they explore the third mantra of the book.

Watch Again recorded on July 10, 2024

Joy of Agility

Be Balanced and Graceful

Be Balanced and Graceful - Resolve imbalances, collaborate harmoniously with others, and make change empowering, not forced.

Joshua Kerievsky’s most recent publication, Joy of Agility, encapsulates over twenty years of exploration, education, adaptation, and introspection on the essence of agility.

Join Joshua and Esther Derby as they explore the second mantra of the book.

Watch Again recorded on June 26, 2024

Joy of Agility

Be Quick - But Don't Hurry

Be Quick - But Don't Hurry - Succeed sooner via quickness under control and avoid costly mistakes from hurrying or rushing.

Joshua Kerievsky’s most recent publication, Joy of Agility, encapsulates over twenty years of exploration, education, adaptation, and introspection on the essence of agility.

Join Joshua and Jim Highsmith as they explore the first mantra of the book.

Watch Again recorded on June 19, 2024

Outsourced Development Woes

The High Cost of Low-Cost Development

Are you using low-cost development services to keep your custom software project on budget? Those savings certainly are tempting–but they're also temporary. What's on paper is just a fraction of what it will cost you. There is a better way to contain the real cost of your custom software, but you won’t hear about it from a "budget" shop.

Join our panel of seasoned experts as we unpack The High Cost of Low Cost Development.
Watch Again recorded on June 5, 2024

Deliver Early and Often

Understanding Story Slicing

What’s the secret to delivering more value to production more often? Story slicing!

Join us in a lively discussion to learn why we slice stories thinly, how we do it, how it relates to evolutionary design, and why it helps us deliver early and often.
Watch Again recorded on May 29, 2024

SAMe

Accepting Bugs, Bottlenecks, and BS

SAMe, it’s “Agile” for orgs that just wanna keep things exactly the same, albeit with an Agile label.

Join us for a fun session in which we explore the benefits of keeping bugs, bottlenecks and BS the SAMe!
Watch Again recorded on May 22, 2024

Global Software Development

Techniques for Distributed Teams

How do we work as a Whole Team when the team is distributed across the world?

There are many challenges with having your software organizations distributed. How do we collaborate? How do we share knowledge?

Join us to learn about the challenges and techniques we have used to create Global Whole Teams.
Watch Again recorded on May 15, 2024

Nice vs. Kind Culture

The Cost of Stagnation vs. Honesty

Many of us have a myriad of opportunities to decide how we want to show up and what we want to “deal with.” So we often don’t - we simply sweep them under the rug or ignore them.

Join IL’s Tara Scott and Matthew Carlson as they dig into the real cost of “nice” culture. They’ll share their experiences around what happens when things grow stagnant and what success can look like when we’re both kind and more direct.
Watch Again recorded on May 8, 2024

Road to Revenue

A Better Software Sooner Case Study

When Skribe.ai asked Industrial Logic to help disrupt how lawyers record and consume legal depositions, we knew it was a perfect opportunity to put our mantra, “Better Software Sooner” to work. Within two months, we released a high-quality, initial offering. Revenue grew and the software evolved. Today, we’re helping Skribe.ai realize it’s vision of empowering lawyers with powerful AI tools.
Watch Again recorded on April 24, 2024

BETTER SOFTWARE SOONER

25% Faster, A Legacy Code Rewrite Story

A worldwide payments organization was experiencing customer attrition on its 10-year-old Point-of-Sale (POS) app. Not only did they need a new version of the POS, but they also needed a modern UX, versions on both tablets and mobile, and it would need to run on iOS and Android. And they needed it fast to keep up with the competition.

Join us as we share how our team collaborated with the existing development team to deliver the new POS 25% faster than originally expected.
Watch Again recorded on April 17, 2024

BETTER SOFTWARE SOONER

What do we mean by Sooner?

At Industrial Logic, we believe that our clients deserve Better Software Sooner. What do those three words mean to us?

Join Joshua Kerievsky, Tara Scott, and Kody Fintak as they share their thoughts on SOONER - Sooner, not later. Sooner integration. Sooner testing. Sooner learning. More value, delivered sooner.
Watch Again recorded on April 10, 2024

BETTER SOFTWARE SOONER

What do we mean by Software?

At Industrial Logic, we believe that our clients deserve Better Software Sooner. What do those three words mean to us?

Join Joshua Kerievsky, Amber Conville, and Tim Ottinger as they share their thoughts on SOFTWARE - Software that’s fast and cheap to change. Software that’s always shippable. Software you trust. Software users love.
Watch Again recorded on April 3, 2024

BETTER SOFTWARE SOONER

What do we mean by Better?

At Industrial Logic, we believe that our clients deserve Better Software Sooner. What do those three words mean to us?

Join Joshua Kerievsky, Jai Mansaray, and Wyatt Sutherland as they share their thoughts on BETTER - Better teamwork. Better quality. Better bets. Better balance. Better flow. Software development that’s consistently better.
Watch Again recorded on March 27, 2024

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The Clean Start Protocol

If you want to program, begin with a clean start.

By Tim Ottinger

Evolutionary Design Tips

Examples of small steps towards a better solution.

By Mark Schell

Can you learn TDD from AI?

I tried it out and here's what I found.

By Cecil Williams