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London’s CW500 Club event dedicated to the future of software development
CW500 Club organised an event dedicated to the future of software development. Now you can find the presentations prepared by the speakers and a summary of the event on the Computer Weekly website.
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Is Kanban the New Scrum?
For years, many people have considered Scrum to be the default starting point when talking about Agile implementations. However, with the recent rise of Kanban, some now see Kanban as the next step in the evolution of Agile.
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To Deliver Innovation Don't FedEx It, ShipIt!
After seven years, over 500 innovation projects and high profile endorsements from Dan Pink and other leading publications that resulted in hundreds of organisations copying the concept, Australian software company Atlassian has had to rename its famous innovation day concept.
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The right time for decision making
Earlier this week Jim Bird from BIDS Trading Technologies posted a blog article about the differences between Agile and Lean approaches to planning and decision making.
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Four Tips on How to Plan Innovative Experiments
In a short video presentation Vijay Govindarajan from Tuck School of Business talks about innovation and shares his tips on how to plan successful experiments in companies.
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Agile On Top Down Under: Record Numbers at Agile Australia 2012
Over 850 delegates crammed into the Hilton on the Park Hotel in Melbourne last week for Agile Australia 2012 to share experiences and learn from over 75 of Australia and New Zealand's most experienced Agile practitioners.
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Scrumodoro: Methods For Personal Effectiveness Within Scrum
Scrum and Pomodoro are blended by Mangus Nord to maximize both team and individual productivity.
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Lean Startup Machine Returns to Toronto
Lean Startup Machine is returning to Toronto June 8-10. I had an opportunity to chat with Jason Little, who was a member of Hire Shark, which won the previous LSM event in Toronto. Jason is returning as one of the event organizers and mentors.
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Improving Productivity and Efficiency for Fully Distributed Teams
Andrew Montalenti on his blog pixelmoneky.org talks about viability of fully distributed teams now and in the future.
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Crossing the Software Education Chasm
In their recent blog posting “Crossing the Software Education Chasm” for the Communications of the ACM Armando Fox and David Patterson from UC Berkeley address the tradeoff between university education of software engineers and actual expectations of employers. They suggest that a solution to reduce this gap consists of teaching students agile development of SaaS apps using tools like rails.
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A Very Personal Look at 12 Years of Agile
Simon Baker from Energized Work talks about past, present and future of Agile in his paper "No bull". The publication covers Baker's 12 years of experience with different teams and companies.
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Double-loop learning in retrospectives and the Lean Startup
Double-loop learning can be a great model for encouraging transformational improvements in teams by challenging key assumptions and strategies. Retrospectives and Lean Startup provide a framework to incorporate this learning model.
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How to prioritize tasks based on their value
Bob Marshall in his new blog post, "The Value", summarises his research on different methods of prioritisation. Together with Grant Rule he developed a new way of understanding team and company goals.
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IEEE Experts Summit on Mastering Uncertainty
On 26th June the IEEE is organizing a one day expert summit in London called Mastering Uncertainty in the Software Industry: Risks, Rewards, and Reality at the British Computer Society.
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That's How You're Using Story Points? No Way.
Story points are about estimating relative effort, gauging how difficult it will be to complete one feature relative to another. They are an abstraction of the cost, effort, and labor needed to produce that feature. Simple enough concept right? Wrong. Some teams are using story points to rank features rather than estimate effort. Hard to believe? Read on.