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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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Beyond Budgeting - a Management Model for New Business and People Realities
Bjarte Bogsnes discusses Beyond Budgeting and tackling budgeting issues in traditional management, the Statoil "Ambition to Action" management model with implementation experiences and advice.
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Managing for Serendipity
Dave Snowden discusses managing exaptation, addressing the use of discovery networks, modularity of needs and capabilities, distributed cognition and Cynefin.
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The Lean Mindset: The Far Side of Paradox
Mary Poppendieck examines research and case studies to help understand what a lean mindset is and how it can help a company compete in today's fast moving marketplace.
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The Game of Team Culture
Daniel Mezick explains how to deliver happiness through the intentional design and implementation of good-game mechanics inside a team, providing tools for playing an all-new game of team learning.
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