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Lean Programmes: Using Kanban and Continuous Improvement in Transient Programmes of Work
Martin Aspeli shares his experiences using Kanban, Real Options, Conway's Law and Feature Injection to help clients "see" the value stream in their programmes and better align disparate workstreams.
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#noestimates Project Planning Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Dimitar Bakardzhiev discusses planning a fixed bid project by applying the Monte Carlo simulation using collected historical data about lead time per story.
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Beyond Projects - Why Projects Are Wrong and What to Do Instead
Allan Kelly examines the project model and shows why it does not match software development, outlining an alternative to the project model and what companies need to do to achieve it.
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Workshops: The UX Designers' Trojan Horse
Viviana Doctorovich explains how to use workshops to teach clients the design process using planning, design games and methods for dealing with difficult stakeholders.
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Capacity Planning - TOC Applied to Creating Organizational Portfolios
Chris Matts leads an experimental workshop on using the Theory of Constraints to create an organizational investment portfolio.
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Plan a Project in 10 Minutes - or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Little's Law
Chris Young explains how he is using Little’s Law to estimate a project’s delivery rate.
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Forecasting Delivery, with Oranges
Dan Brown explains the difference between forecasting and estimating, and how one can better forecast delivery with less effort and more accuracy than with estimation.
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Inside spring.io: a Production Spring Reference Application
Brian Clozel talks about the newly open-sourced reference application that powers the spring.io site, built with Spring Boot, Spring Framework 4 features, cujoJS, Bower and Gulp.
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Why Your Team Has Slowed Down, Why That's Worse than You Think, and How to Fix it
Edmund Jorgensen discusses how and why engineering teams slow down, showing how attempts to manage costs in the face of slowdowns can death-spiral into worse delays with deadly economic consequences.
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Humble Programmers’ Reflections by Example on Unit Tests, TDD and BDD
Bruce Meacham discusses using user stories and business requirements for writing good tests that lead to good code, with examples in C#/SpecFlow and JavaScript/Cucumber.
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Complex Projects Aren't Planable but Controllable
Jutta Eckstein provides insights in the latest scientific research on planning and shows how Beyond Budgeting and Agile principles can be combined so that even complex projects remain controllable.
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Caml Trading - Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street
Jane Street runs a large trading business on software written almost entirely in OCaml, a statically typed functional language. Yaron Minsky shows the reasons for choosing Ocaml and how it worked out.