Best practices and lessons learned from a real-world software development team. Suncorp adopted a Kanban-based lean software development approach using JIRA, Greenhopper and other Atlassian tools. Key Takeaways: * Overview of agile software techniques * How Kanban can be applied to software development, maintenance and support * How to ensure kaizen (improvement) is part of your dev process.

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2. Kaizen with GreenHopper
Visualizing Agile & Kanban Storywalls
Craig Smith
Agile Coach
Suncorp
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13. Approach
Practices
Principles
Values
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44. Concept  Initiate  Deliver  Deploy
Storycards & Iteration Management (JIRA + GreenHopper)
Collaboration (Confluence / Sharepoint)
Development Environment
(Maven / Subversion / Git / Cobertura / ...)
Development Tools
(IntelliJ / Eclipse / Visual Studio / ...)
Testing (Concordion / WebDriver / ...)
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51. Craig Smith
craig.smith@suncorp.com.au
@smithcdau
www.suncorp.com.au
www.agileacademy.com.au
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52. •Suncorp is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest diversified financial
services providers, supplying banking, insurance and wealth management
products to around 9 million customers through well-established and
recognised brands such as AAMI, Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency,
Shannons, Vero, Asteron and Tyndall, as well as Suncorp and GIO. Today,
Suncorp is Australia's fifth largest bank and second largest domestic general
insurance group, with over 16,000 staff. Suncorp has representation in 450
offices, branches and agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand.
(http://www.suncorp.com.au)
•The Agile Academy is the next wave in Agile learning and collaboration.
Designed for IT professionals, the Agile Academy is a knowledge hub that
promotes Agile related learning, knowledge sharing and capability development
across the IT industry. We offer an integrated curriculum of leading edge
courses across the entire solution development life cycle, covering all roles at
varying levels. (http://www.agileacademy.com.au)
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