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Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises

Presented by Dean Leffingwell on Dec 09, 2009 Length 01:36:28     Download: MP3
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Process & Practices
Topics
Agile ,
Agile in the Enterprise
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Agile2009
 

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Summary
Dean describes team practices that scale to the enterprise, including structuring agile teams, mastering the iteration, concurrent testing and continuous integration. Dean also describes intentionally emergent architectures, lean requirements at scale, coordinating releases with the agile release train, agile training and rollout strategies and measuring business performance.

Bio
Dean Leffingwell is a consultant, entrepreneur, software executive and technical author who provides product strategy, business advisory services and enterprise-level agility coaching to large software enterprises.

About the conference
Agile 2009 is an exciting international industry conference that presents the latest techniques, technologies, attitudes and first-hand experience, from both a management and development perspective, for successful Agile software development.
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