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Technical Debt, Process and Culture
Michael Feathers advices on creating an organizational process and culture that can enhance software development in a way that reduces technical debt.
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Creativity, Energy, Imagination and The Business Value of Joy!
Richard Sheridan presents tools and techniques for creating an intentional culture of joy lacking fear and ambiguity, the most productive environment in his opinion.
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Ain’t No Cure for the Distributed Blues
Dan North shares his experience in a new endeavor working for a trading company with distributed teams embracing ideas from Lean and Theory of Constraints.
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Integration At Scale: Lessons Learned From The New Enterprise Web
David Laing, Neels Burger, Neil Pellinacci, Parand Tony Darugar, and Scott Morrison (moderator) discuss the impact of integration of various interconnected devices, web technologies, and cultures.
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Progressive Architectures at the Royal Bank of Scotland
Ben Stopford, Farzad Pezeshkpour and Mark Atwell discuss: the Manhattan processor – avoiding GC pauses-, beyond messaging with ODC, Risk, data virtualization and collaboration in banking.
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Building Technology Mid-flight
Sam Hamilton discusses the technological, architectural and organizational changes an organization goes through in the process of upgrading its software stack without interrupting daily business.
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Dealing with Information Overload and Improving Effectiveness
Scott Hanselman advices on dealing with information overload: audit and sort info sources, schedule work sprints, turn off distractions, triaging the inbox, having a personal toolbox.
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Decisions, Decisions
Dan North engages the audience into a discussion about the tradeoffs involved in making decisions regarding the team composition, development style, architecture, and deployment solutions.
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Adapting UX Techniques to Fit Culture
Sedef Gavaz discusses the importance of adapting UX techniques used to the target audience, organization and culture, sharing lessons learned while working in China.
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Distributed Data Analysis with Hadoop and R
Jonathan Seidman and Ramesh Venkataramaiah present how they run R on Hadoop in order to perform distributed analysis on large data sets, including some alternatives to their solution.
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Go With The Flow: Why Lean Ideas Like Kanban Work So Well In Software
James Sutton presents why Kanban works well in software development and how it can improve the culture of a group using it. Sutton also touches complementary Lean ideas and tools.
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Strategic User Experience
Leisa Reichelt proposes a detailed process for delivering a great UX starting from the original vision of the product, to business strategy, to customer experience strategy and tactical execution.