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It Doesn't Work That Way in Enterprise
Pete Smith discusses the difficulties of being an enterprise developer, the limits set for development in such an environment and what can be done about it.
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The Importance of Culture - Building and Sustaining Effective Engineering Organizations
Randy Shoup discusses several important aspects of engineering cultures: hiring and retention, ownership and collaboration, quality and discipline, and learning and experimentation.
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Progress from "What?" and "So what?" to "NOW WHAT?"
Larry Maccherone presents his top 10 tips for using data to influence others toward better decisions.
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Dream Job? The Vision and Journey to the Company Culture You Want
Helen Walton and Pete Burden offer insight into how important culture is to a business and happiness, and the practical tools needed to make a vision become reality.
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A Look at Technology in Uganda
Colin Gislason explores cross-culture similarities and differences on the African continent to find practical lessons in building technology.
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How Does Agile Coaching Fit in to an Organization's Context?
Ryan Behrman runs a workshop on how to be a more effective change agent, using "Change poker" in teams to experience various aspects of change and to share best practices.
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Cake Driven Development: Engineering at MOO.com
Mike Pearce tells the story of how MOO manages to keep a fresh, startup-like culture that fosters innovation and values collaboration, while still delivering products and looking after its staff.
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Modern Leadership Through Environment Design
Matt Barcomb discusses how leaders should evolve from "managing resources" to "designing systems", balancing authority with accountability and the issue of compensation plans based on performance.
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Warp Speed: A New & Important KPI
Tom Quinn on how News Corp has adapted its app infrastructure and adopted a cloud-first strategy to meet the challenges of a digital world driven by consumers innovating faster than many businesses.
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Developing Passion, in Many Senses
Jon Skeet keynotes on developers’ passion for their craft, how to find, nurture and enjoy it, how to balance work and life activities, when to step back, and if too much passion can be a problem.
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Release Testing Is Risk Management Theatre
Steve Smith discusses why Release Testing is an anti-pattern, and offers an alternative risk reduction strategy.
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Open Agile Adoption - Reaching Escape Velocity
Stuart Turner explains how to achieve both rapid and sustained transformation with Open Agile Adoption which combines games, rites-of-passage and other techniques into a framework.