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Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Dave Nicolette and Karl Scotland try to introduce non-technical managers to one of the most popular Agile development techniques: Test-Driven Development (TDD).
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Principles and Practices of Lean-Agile Software Development
Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners.
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Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams
Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum.
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Technical Lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven
Craig Smith and Paul King present their experiments with new Agile ideas leading them to better results, increased productivity and quality.
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Planning with a Large Distributed Team
Williams and Stout share their recent experience with a large distributed team, the planning hurdles they encountered and how they passed them, and their recommendation: avoid large distributed teams.
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Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption
Michael Mah analyzes the development process in 5 companies: 2 Agile (one of them BMC) and 3 classic. He presents the factors which contributed to the success of BMC's Agile adoption.
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Fostering Software Craftsmanship in a Corporate Setting
Scott talks about software craftsmanship represented by people responsible for their work, continuously learning, taking pride in their work, sharing knowledge and respecting professional standards.
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Extremely Short Iterations as a Catalyst for Effective Prioritization of Work
Mishkin Berteig presents how a 2-days iteration led to a crisis which in turn forced those involved to realize the importance and necessity of task prioritization.
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When Working Software Is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Mitch Lacey talks about a real life project that was on the verge of being successful, but was deemed as unsuccessful by the customer.
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Prioritizing Your Product Backlog
Choosing the right features can make the difference between success and failure. Mike Cohn presented 'Prioritizing your Project Backlog' on how to organize/prioritize a project backlog.
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Agile in Practice: What Is Actually Going On Out There?
Scott Ambler talks about actual data resulting from surveys made during 2006-2008, showing how Agile is perceived and implemented within organizations.
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Agile and Beyond - The Power of Aspirational Teams
Tim Mackinnon talks about the aspirations behind the Agile principles and practices, the desire to become efficient, to write quality code which does not end up being thrown away.
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