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Are Decision Dilemmas Slowing You Down?
Gerry Kirk introduces the 7 levels of delegation by playing Delegation Poker, a game to make clear who’s responsible for what and on what level, useful to make decision making process explicit.
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Tracking Millions of Ganks in Near Real Time
Garrett Eardley explores how Riot Games is using Riak for their stats system, discussing why they chose Riak, the data model and indexes, and strategies for working with eventually consistent data.
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Online Controlled Experiments: Introduction, Insights, Scaling, and Humbling Statistics
Ronny Kohavi shares lessons learned, cultural and scaling challenges conducting hundreds of concurrent online controlled experiments at Bing.
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Culture and Happiness in Virtual Teams
Floyd Marinescu shares how the virtual teams behind InfoQ.com and QCon are run: processes, tools, & mindset needed to run virtually while delivering purpose, autonomy & mastery for over 7 years.
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Building a Culture Where Software Projects Get Done
Greg Brockman shares Stripe's principles powering their software projects and the culture instilled to avoid the usual software engineering traps: failed rewrites, delayed timelines, etc.
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The Guessing Game: Alternatives to Agile Estimation
Neil Killick proposes ways to reduce risk and uncertainty, calculate a product’s price, determine delivery dates and roadmap, do Scrum and XP without using estimates.
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The Search for Sustainable Innovation
The panelists discuss innovation at the enterprise level avoiding the business’ constant volatility.
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Pushing a Rope: Implementing Innovation Programs
Ted Tencza shares lessons learned innovating at Atlassian and Bigcommerce, including programs that worked (FedEx/ShipIt/Hackathons, 20% time) and programs that failed (dedicated Innovation Team).
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Orchestrating Tasks from the Cloud with Groovy and AWS SWF
Clay McCoy discusses using Groovy’s metaprogramming capabilities and AWS SWF to deal with unreliable remote services, parallelization, scheduling critical timers, and server failures.
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Do Agile Methods Contain the Seeds of Their Own Destruction? (Safety and Our Ability to Learn from Failure)
Amr Elssamadisy explores the link between safety and success of agile methods, explaining what can be done to change the culture of an organization to create a base where agile methods can flourish.
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Culture Hacking: The Prospect of Magnificence
Jim McCarthy discusses culture hacking, expressing a particular hacker ethos originating in the world of software hacking, promoting freedom, openness, and embodying rationality and design elegance.
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Near Field Communication
Neil Garner discusses the role played by NFC in today and tomorrow’s economic landscape and how businesses can take advantage of it.
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