Antony Marcano
Antony Marcano is co-founder of RiverGlide, a coaching, consultancy and training firm helping teams and organisations innovate with agility. He has been in software development for nearly 25 years, almost 20 of which have been either working in teams or guiding them and the organisations around them, as they aspire to greater agility. Antony is as much a practitioner as he is coach, consultant and trainer in topics from writing communicative, maintainable code to User Stories & BDD to effective team models, approaching change and Kent Beck's emerging 3X framework.
His thought leadership is recognised through the references and acknowledgements found in numerous books – including Agile Coaching, Bridging The Communication Gap, Software Craftsmanship Apprenticeship Patterns and Agile Testing. Antony is also published in journals, such as Better Software Magazine, earning him his past tenure there as Technical Editor, successor to people such as Brian Marick and Mike Cohn. Antony is known for his inspiring and thought provoking talks at international conferences, events and within organisations and has regularly lectured as a guest speaker at Oxford University.
For more on Antony, visit antonymarcano.com, Antony also tweets at @AntonyMarcano.
Talks I've Given
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5 Mistakes Made in Agile Transformations
Featuring Antony Marcano
Agile Transformations are a challenging, and sometimes, delicate endeavour. There are numerous ways to succeed and many more ways to fail. In this talk, Antony Marcano shares 5 of the most common mistakes he's experienced over nearly 20 years as part of, or leading, Agile Transformations.
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Keynote: 3 Lenses of Agility – People, Product & Process (And what we might miss if we don't look through all of them)
Featuring Antony Marcano
In conversations about agility, we all have our biases. Some folks may tend to focus more on organisational and team structures, with discussions about autonomous teams with co-located, cross functional team-members. Others might focus more on practices ranging from User Stories to Test Driven...
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The who, why & what of better BDD scenarios with Antony Marcano
Featuring Antony Marcano
Come and join Antony Marcano (re)introducing a model that he has found valuable in guiding the narratives of BDD scenarios!
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Screenplay pattern - a SOLID alternative to Page Objects
Featuring Antony Marcano
The Screenplay Pattern, first created by Antony Marcano, is an alternative model to PageObjects. Today, it is growing in popularity with increasing tool support in popular testing frameworks.
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User Centred Scenarios: Describing capabilities, not solutions
Featuring Antony Marcano and James Martin
Many teams don't realise that their Cukes are actually describing the solution they're building rather than the user-capability they're enabling. The closer to the solution our Cukes are, the less flexibility we have and the less maintainable ...
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Feature Injection
Featuring Antony Marcano and Chris Matts
Feature Injection is an extention of the BDD family of tools to cover Business Analysis practices. Antony Marcano and Chris Matts will run a game that helps you understand how information flows in a project. The game builds on the idea that all value is in the output of a system. The game allows...
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CukeSalad: Cucumber, chopped, dressed and ready to eat
Featuring Antony Marcano
As you write scenarios in Cucumber, you also need to maintain step-definitions. These files can become quite large (end therefore harder to maintain) or can become fragmented making reuse harder.
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Agile Business Analysis with Feature Injection
Featuring Antony Marcano and Andy Palmer
Business Analysts sometimes wonder where they fit in a cross-functional agile team. How do you get from a vague and amorphous business problem to a collection of user stories that the team can incrementally implement?
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BDD, ATDD/TDD - What's the difference?
Featuring Antony Marcano
In this talk, Antony Marcano shares his perspective on Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD).
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Agile Business Analysis with Feature Injection
Featuring Antony Marcano and Chris Matts
Business Analysts sometimes wonder where they fit in a cross-functional agile team. How do you get from a vague and amorphous business problem to a collection of user stories that the team can incrementally implement?
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Narrative Acceptance Tests - A Behaviour Driven Approach
Featuring Antony Marcano and Andy Palmer
Acceptance Tests elaborate a user story & are essentially behaviour specifications, expressing examples of how the application will actually be used. These should represent customer-intent in terms the customer understands.
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Understanding QA/Testing on Agile Projects
Featuring Antony Marcano
Antony Marcano has 13 years of industry experience, originally specialising in software testing, the last 8 of which as a practitioner on Agile projects. Now, more often as a coach and trainer, Antony helps teams evolve their skills and abilities to attain the benefits offered by agile practices....
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