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Segundo Velasquez came to the Agile 2007 conference to meet with an Agile team which promised him help to design and develop a web application meant to build a stronger relationship between Mano a Mano, a charitable organization, and its donors. Segundo shares his amazement on how quickly the whole process evolved.
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By Segundo Velasquez
on May 06, 2008,
News about Agile2007
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- Announcements,
- Leadership
After Agile 2007 the Agile Alliance announced the election results of its ballot for board members for the 2007-2008 period.
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By Ben Hughes
on Aug 31, 2007,
- Agile
- Topics
- Agile in the Enterprise
Now that Agile2007 is over many people have looked back over the conference and shared their experiences. InfoQ gathers a few of these and asks: How was your Agile 2007?
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By Geoffrey Wiseman
on Aug 22, 2007,
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- Topics
- Announcements
The AgileAdvert contest asked "So you want to be a famous Agilist?" At Agile2007's Google reception, the audience voted to make the sad ThoughtWorks clip "Developer Abuse" the no.1 video, so "Matthew" is this year's Famous Agilist (name changed to protect the innocent). Other winners featured singing, dancing, a beating, "outside the box" thinking, expletives (deleted), and charming children.
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By Deborah Hartmann
on Aug 20, 2007,
Articles about Agile2007

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- Community
At Agile2007's Google reception, the audience voted to make the (very sad) clip "Developer Abuse" the number 1 video, thereby making "Matthew" (name changed to protect the innocent) this year's AgileAdvert famous Agilist. Five more videos were also recognized, sporting singing, dancing, a beating, "outside the box" thinking, expletives (deleted), and charming children (not all in one video!)
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By Deborah Hartmann
on Aug 20, 2007,
Interviews about Agile2007

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- Topics
- Leadership
Management consultant Johanna Rothman helps her clients manage risk: be it risk in a project's people, risk in how the people are managed, or the risk in the projects themselves. In this interview she talked about strategies for risk reduction, useful for teams in all stages of agility, contained in her new book "Manage It! Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management."
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By Johanna Rothman
on Mar 12, 2008,
Presentations about Agile2007

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- Topics
- Leadership,
- Teamwork
In this 90-minute talk from the Agile2007 conference, Lean software thought leader Mary Poppendieck reviewed 20th century management theories, including Toyota and Deming, and went on to talk about "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, planning and standards. She closed by addressing the role of measurement: "cash flow thinking" over "balance sheet thinking".
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By Mary Poppendieck
on Nov 27, 2007,

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- Topics
- Collaboration,
- Teamwork
Teams moving to an Agile approach may feel irritated as they move from command-and-control to a collaborative culture - which can start to look like non-stop meetings, starting first thing every Monday morning. In this InfoQ exclusive presentation, recorded at Agile2007, Agile coach Jean Tabaka shared her experiences working with teams, offering guidance on how to alleviate meeting burnout.
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By Jean Tabaka
on Nov 05, 2007,

- Agile
- Topics
- Teamwork,
- Adopting Agile
At Agile2007 we heard the tale of a distributed Scrum project with 50 people in 4 continents. BMC Identity Management decided to build their next generation product, including architectural changes and component integration, using Scrum to handle the uncertainty of their product's requirements.
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By Guy Pshigoda & Hubert Smits
on Oct 08, 2007,