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Scaling Up by Scaling Down: Successful Agile Adoption in the Large by Focusing on the Individual

Presented by Amr Elssamadisy on Dec 01, 2010 Length 00:53:23     Download: MP3
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Process & Practices,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Communication ,
QCon San Francisco 2010 ,
Distributed Teams ,
Teamwork ,
QCon ,
Agile Techniques ,
Success ,
Agile ,
learning ,
Conferences ,
Responsibility
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Summary
Amr Elssamadisy focuses on the individual and his responsibility to do his best to make things work in the team regarding the learning process, communication, dealing with upsets, ownership, and responsibility.

Bio
Amr Elssamadisy is a software development practitioner who helps his clients build better software that is more valuable to their organizations. Amr and his colleagues at Gemba Systems deliver immediate and lasting results for clients needing to build software systems better, faster, and more reliably. Amr is also the author of “Agile Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success”.

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Very good presentation by Thomas Santana Posted
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    Very good presentation

    by Thomas Santana

    I really liked this presentation. Thought provoking and very enlightening, even for other aspects of teamwork that are not Agile related.

    Enjoyed the format too, but it would be nice to have microphones for the audience.

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