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Careful with Those People Skills: You'll Poke Somebody's Eye Out!
Angela Harms keynotes on the importance of improving relationship and communication through empathetic listening, authentic connection and compassion rather than applying practices blindly.
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Why Superman Is Not a Good Agile Team Member
Karen Siers outlines the difficulties encountered by a developer switching from a waterfall or cowboy coding environment to a collaborative Agile style.
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Interpreting the Unwritten Rules - or Are They Guidelines?
Shane Hastie presents examples of how the most innocent of question or suggestion can send teams into a spin, and suggests a number of techniques to help create an environment for real communication.
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Practicing at the Cutting Edge
Martin Thompson focuses on the evolution of Java in contrast with C/C++, covering the cultural challenges of performance limits and how to collaborate with industry experts and organize teams.
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Why Agile Doesn't Scale (and What You Can Do about It)
Dan North believes Agile scales if teams achieve contextual consistency through shared guiding principles, a clear vision and a common understanding.
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Development, Deployment & Collaboration at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg provides insights into how Etsy develops software and what tools and processes they utilize to help them achieve their goals.
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Principles of Reliable Communication & Shared State
Andy Piper describes some fundamentals of communicating reliably in an unreliable world and communication techniques used to build distributed data structures that can tolerate failures.
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Live Coding as Communication
Sam Aaron explores the idea of using programming languages, especially functional ones, to share ideas with other people, to have conversations, to support artistic practices, etc.
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Think With Your Hands! Using 3D Model Building to Build Up Your Team
Ellen Grove teaches improving personal development using the Lego Serious Play thinking, communicating and problem solving technique.
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Accelerating Agile: Hyper-performing without the Hype
Dan North shares insight on how high-performing teams work, the patterns and ideas being genuine experiences from practitioners. This is Agile in actuality. Agile is an attitude, not a rule book.
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How to Develop a Great Scrum Master
Angel Medinilla advises on hiring and evolving a great Scrum master along with resources on psychology, coaching, motivational science, communication skills, corporate culture or change management.
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Begin to Grow Your Team
Chris Farrell, Shawn Button help workshop participants to see the problems of self-organization and learn using BEGIN -Boundaries, Empowerment, Goals, Ingredients, Nurture- to empower their team.