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Leading the Agile Way: Duty. Honor. Delivery.
In this video Mark Salamango and John Cunningham looked at their experiences of introducing Agile in the Army, and how frequent delivery offers Agile leaders a kind of "soft" but very effective power.
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Leading From A Position Of No Power: A Customer’s Perspective of an Agile Team
Last year Agile coach Alexia Bowers walked a mile in a project customer's shoes, and told us at Agile2006 how it felt. She stressed the need to strive for creativity instead of cutting scope.
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System Integration Testing Using Spring
Spring co-founder Rod Johnson on integration testing with Spring and support Spring provides for it, testing the persistence layer, testing web apps.
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Code Organization Guidelines for Large Code Bases
Juergen Hoeller shares guidelines for managing large codebases such as packaging and package interdependencies, layering and module decomposition, and evolving a large code base.
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Database Refactoring
Scott Ambler teaches teams how to integrate database roles into their iterative, incremental rhythm to increase software success. InfoQ captured Ambler's talk on Database Refactoring at Agile2006.
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Agile Quality: A Canary in a Coal Mine
Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber spoke at Agile2006 on code quality as a corporate asset. In this video Schwaber discussed how a degrading codebase paralyses teams and increases corporate risk.
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The Roots of Scrum
For 60 minutes Jeff Sutherland covers Scrum from creation to its use at Xerox, Honda, WildCard, Lexus, Google. He looks at Scrum types A, B C, and confirms that Kent Beck used Scrum practices for XP.
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Agile Project Management Planning and Budgetting
Agile methods are empirical: plan, do, evaluate, plan again. To keep teams rolling, planning is critical. For 80 minutes David Hussman reviews practices for planning projects, releases, iterations.