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The Industrialization of Software Delivery

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Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Platforms,
Methodologies,
Enterprise Architecture

IT has consistently failed to deliver expected value time and time again. According to Ian Thomas, Industrialization (componentization, specialization) may be a solution for supporting software agility and reliability in the new business environment.

Touchy Feely Impediments to Agile Adoption

Community
Agile
Topics
Agile Techniques,
Leadership,
Adopting Agile

Struggling with Agile Adoption? Amr Elssamadisy ran a session on what makes adopting Agile processes difficult. He provided the audience with three models for understanding the problems seen during adoption.

Renowned Orchestra Embraces Scrum-like Practices

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Agile
Topics
Collaboration,
Leadership,
Teamwork,
Stories & Case Studies

A Scrum team has no designated leader; the team is expected to self-organize. Similarly, one of the world's most renowned orchestras has dispensed entirely with the role of conductor in favor of a process where leadership is shared and decisions are made by the team. Along the way, they have learned lessons and ways of working together that any Scrum team can benefit from.

The State of Enterprise Architecture

Community
Architecture
Topics
Funding,
Enterprise Architecture,
Leadership

As organizations continue to grow their IT investments (bought, borrowed, or built) and concepts like Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture become more common, the role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become more common. Recently, several people in the EA community have spoken about its current state.

Complaint-Free Iterations

Community
Agile
Topics
Human Resources,
Teamwork

No software project is perfect, nor is the organization in which the project takes place. When your software project goes wrong, do your team members complain, or do they take corrective action? The Complaint Free World project encourages people to take notice of how often they complain, and reduce the frequency of the complaints, aiming for a goal of twenty-one complaint-free days.

50 Developers Answer: What Do You Want Your CIO to Know About Agile?

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Agile
Topics
Leadership

Trying to explain the benefits of Agile Software Development to your CIO? Does your boss want some outside validation? Esther Schindler asked more than 50 developers and Agile practitioners one question: "If you could get the boss to understand one thing, just one thing, related to agile development...what would it be? Why that?".

The Legal Boundaries Of Agile

Community
Agile
Topics
Legal Matters,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Change

Adopting Agile practices requires a shift in the organisation on many different levels, but can making such a change lead to serious trouble?

Kent Beck: Be Yourself - Create More Value

Community
Agile
Topics
Careers,
Change,
Teamwork

Recent discussions on the extremeprogramming list keep returning to "telling the truth". Why do we bite off more than we can chew? Why the overtime heroics? Kent Beck's one-hour talk "Ease at Work" explored how to get off what he called the "genius-shithead rollercoaster" and just be yourself at work. Question: Would you rather spend energy on maintaining an image, or doing more cool stuff?