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Agile 2013 Keynote Speakers Announced
The Agile Alliance has announced the three keynote speakers for the Agile 2013 conference in August. Abhi Nemani, Tim Lister and Gene Kim will talk about leveraging the power of agility in their various fields.
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Balancing Independent Testing and Agile Collaboration
Collaboration between developers and testers is often considered important in cross functional agile teams to become successful. There is also a benefit of having independence for testers, so that they can report about the quality of the software without fear. How can you balance testers independence with collaboration in agile teams?
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Why the Lean Start-up Changes Everything
Steve Blank makes the argument that mainstream adoption of the lean start-up is not only attainable, but would provide the basis for a newer innovation based economy.
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Agile Singapore Conference Announced
The first Agile Singapore conference will be held on November 7-8 2013. The conference is community organized with Jim McCarthy and David Hussman as the opening and closing keynote speakers.
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Agile 2013 Program Announced
The Agile Alliance has announced the program for the upcoming Agile 2013 conference. There are 210 sessions over the five days, plus a number of keynotes and special events.
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David J. Anderson Delivers "State of Kanban-Land" Address at the 2013 Lean Kanban Conference.
At his Keynote at the Lean Kanban conference in Chicago, Kanban pioneer David J. Anderson delivered a keynote on the state of Kanban. InfoQ captured some of the highlights of Anderson's address.
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Behind the 2012 VersionOne State of Agile Survey
VersionOne recently released the results of their State of Agile Development Survey for 2012, and once again it proved to be an interesting indicator of Agile adoption and trends.
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Audio Interviews with Agile Commentators and Authors
Gil Broza, author of “The Human Side of Agile” has announced a series of audio interviews with a variety of authors and commentators on the topic of “Individuals and Interactions” in May. The theme of the series is "Apply proven strategies, approaches, and actions to make the Agile promise happen".
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Scaling Agile At Spotify: An Interview with Henrik Kniberg
Back in November, Spotify released a paper titled "Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds". I recently had a chance to chat with Henrik Kniberg, one of the coaches on site there, to ask him some questions about the paper and to get an update on where they are today.
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Should You Create User Stories for Technical Debt?
Agile teams sometimes struggle with the planning of pure technical tasks that have no direct value for the user of a system, but have to be done to deliver working software. Should you create user stories to handle such technical tasks and technical debt, or not?
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Agile Developers Needed
Staffing firm Yoh Services has released the results of a study which shows that job demand for Agile development skills exceeds supply by a factor of 4 to 1 in the USA.
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How to Measure and Analyze Happiness
Companies have reported that focusing on things that make their employees happy can give benefits. But how can you measure and analyze employee happiness? Some insights in the why of happiness, and the results and lessons learned from those who used it.
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Interview with Naresh Jain on emerging Agile trends in India
InfoQ spoke to Naresh Jain, chair of Agile India 2013 about emerging Agile trends in India. Naresh talks about Product Discovery, Lean Startup, Continuous Delivery and much more, from an Indian context.
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How do Product Owners and Teams Collaborate?
Henrik Kniberg has developed “a 1 day product ownership course compressed into a 15 minute animated presentation”. Based upon this video and some other on-line resources about the product owner role, collaboration between product owners and teams is examined.
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Innovation Games Celebrates Ten Years with Summit in Santa Clara
Innovation Games celebrates their 10 year anniversary with a Summit in Santa Clara California. The Summit features Alexander Osterwalder as the keynote speaker.