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Natural Laws of Software Development - Deriving Agile Practices
Jeffries and Hendrickson derive Agile practices from the natural laws of software development. They don't just say "Be Agile!", but they explain why Agile practices make perfect sense.
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"We Suck Less!" Is Not Enough
David Douglas and Robin Dymond discuss about companies adopting Agile, but don't go all the way, resulting in failure and rejection of it, and predictably having a negative impact on Agile's future.
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The Development of a New Car at Toyota
Kenji Hiranabe talks about Toyota's development process of a new car. Kenji shares his experience meeting Nobuaki Katayama, former Chief Engineer at Toyota, and the lessons he learned from him.
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Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning
Mike Cohn talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging.
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Introduction to Agile for Traditional Project Managers
This session is specifically aimed at traditionally trained project managers who are new to Agile, and who would like to be able to relate the PMI's best practices to their Agile equivalents.
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Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum.
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Agile in the Waterfall Enterprise by Michele Sliger
In large organizations, it’s simply not practical to just "flip a switch" and have your IT department start doing agile all at once.
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Dealing With the Organizational Challenges of Agile Adoption
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Joseph Pelrine talks about the challenges faced by organizations trying to adopt Agile methods.
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Agile Architecture Is Not Fragile Architecture
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Coplien and Henney describe how to start with enough architecture to ensure long term success of an Agile developed project.
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Agile Project Lifecycle: User Stories and Release Planning
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about the Agile development cycle starting with user stories and planning the releases.
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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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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development
This 90-minute talk reviewed 20th century theories, including Toyota and Deming, and addressed "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, standards and "balance sheet thinking".