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Joseph Pelrine's Blend of Science, Process &Teamwork

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Agile
Topics
Change,
Teamwork,
Leadership

Joseph Pelrine was present when XP took its first steps, was Europe's first Certified Scrum Trainer, and today is still breaking new ground. In this 2007 InfoQ interview, Joseph talked about Network Analysis and how Social Complexity Science informs his work with teams; the usefulness of the Dilbert archetype; & a speed-dating technique to help teams get started (creating software, of course).

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The State of Enterprise Architecture

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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.

JavaOne 2008 Day 1 - JavaFX, OSGi, and Android Smoke and Mirrors

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Java
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Leadership

JavaOne kicked off Tuesday in San Francisco with a keynote largely centered on JavaFX. OSGi also made an appearance with the keynote highlighting of the new Glassfish micro-kernel being 98k in size.

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Help Your Teams Trade Cubicles for Communication Skills

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Agile
Topics
Collaboration,
Teamwork,
Leadership

The Agile “self organising team” paradigm demands new skills of team members – including the people skills for which they may once have depended upon their Project Managers. Far from being redundant, management can now play an important role in helping teams learn new ways to communicate and collaborate. This article proposes some strategies for imparting new skills and suggests some resources.

Questioning the Retrospective Prime Directive

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Agile
Topics
Leadership,
Teamwork

The 'Retrospective Prime Directive' is a practice used by many teams as part of their continuous improvement cycle. As outlined in Norm Kerth's book, it is intended to foster the deep learning that is the heart of a retrospective. This article is an enlightening conversation, captured by Linda Rising, between senior practitioners on the benefits and the challenges of using this practice.

Interviews about Leadership

Johanna Rothman: Agile Risk Reduction for Traditional Teams

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Agile
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."

Patrick Curran discusses the Java Community Process

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Java
Topics
Leadership,
Community

In this interview, new JCP chairman Patrick Curran discusses his goals for the JCP, what role standards play, the interactions between innovation and standardization, the impact of OpenJDK, the Java SE TCK and Apache Harmony, the shift in app servers from Java EE to SOA, future Java technology standardization, interesting and successful JSRs, and the future of the JCP.

Presentations about Leadership

Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty

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Agile
Topics
Customers & Requirements,
Methodologies,
Leadership

Of course, "anything more than 'barely sufficient' process is waste," but what does that mean for your team, or my next project? In this 60 minute presentation from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, Todd Little shared a model to help choose the right "flavour" of Agile for different kinds of projects, and discussed the importance of 'steering' throughout the project's duration.

Leading the Agile Way: Duty. Honor. Delivery.

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Agile
Topics
Stories & Case Studies,
Leadership,
Adopting Agile,
Customers & Requirements,
Delivering Value

Here is a story about Agile's use in a governmental organisation: at the 2006 APLN Leadership Summit Mark Salamango and John Cunningham looked at the problems and opportunities of introducing Agile in Army environments. True Agile practices cannot be 'commanded' or 'directed’ but frequent delivery offers Agile leaders a "soft" kind of power that is, in fact, very effective.