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What is Agile and How Can I Use it Well?

I gave a talk at BSidesLV 2018

In the "Proving Ground" track for new speakers

"What is Agile and How Can I Use it Well?"

Are you a person who works with Agile developers? Are they driving you nuts? This presentation will explain the core tenets of Agile and how they apply to you, the security wonk. What you may not realize is that at its core Agile is about delivering a product, fast. Agile teams are focused on delivering a minimal viable product, getting feedback, and improving both the product and the process through iterative and continuous improvement. With a keen understanding of Agile forged in the trenches of large deployments, this presentation shows you how to effectively scale your team in order to have security be an integrated part of the Agile iterations.



Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sCM5si8UxtOusDlBeecXudstDf9idDFQWadhLtMHPpg/edit#slide=id.p

Be sure to read the speaker's notes!

Video:
Thank you to Tom G my mentor who met with me every week and helped me keep things concise (I tend to run in verbose mode), practice pacing (even though I went a little fast), and made sure my first presentation at a conference went very smoothly!

Also thank you to funsized for being my demo audience, a lot, and Armorguy and Anna W for feedback.Apologies if I forgot anyone!

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