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It's All About You!
Sue McKinney discusses the roles of managers and developers within an organization where everyone owns delivery and is accountable.
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Building Cloud Software–It's Big but It's Not All Fluffy
Andy Britcliffe shares some lessons learned building software for the cloud, along with advice on architecture, technologies and the need for vendor support.
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Use and Abuse of Other People's Cucumbers - When Cucumbers Go Bad
Matt Wynne discusses Mortgage-Driven Development and adopting other people’s tools and processes without adaptation or consideration to actual needs.
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The Power of Play: Making Good Teams Great
Portia Tung believes that play at work can improve team relationship and can fire up creativity.
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Being Followed: How Individuals Help Teams Become Excellent
Mike Hill advises individuals on becoming coaches for their teams using 5 techniques: Sorting, Releasing, Situating, Modeling, and Inviting, and learning what should be avoided when coaching.
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Entirely Predictable Failures
Poul-Henning Kamp considers that if developers are not getting better, we are going to repeat many of the major IT project failures. He exemplifies with major Denmark project failures.
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Innovation: What Every Developer Absolutely Needs to Know
Steve Vinoski discusses innovation and product life cycles, how they affects the market and someone’s products, and what one should know in order to succeed in a very competitive landscape.
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Embracing Variability
Don Reinertsen proposes addressing uncertainty not by considering it harmful nor by embracing it but by efficiently reducing it in the context of the economic laws governing the software dev process.
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Agile Leadership, Get the Rhythm
Martin Harbolt discusses Agile leadership practices promoting self organized teams and finding the proper rhythm for completing Agile projects with success.
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The Lazy Learner
Chris Matts discusses ways of learning - Kolb’s Circle of Learning, Meme Wombling, Hangover – with a focus on the cycle starting from Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Competence.
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Technical Debt, Process and Culture
Michael Feathers advices on creating an organizational process and culture that can enhance software development in a way that reduces technical debt.
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Accruing Technical Debt: Practical Decision-Making and Its Business Relevance
Christof Ebert discusses technical debt including a Netscape vs. IE case study and provides a framework with practices for managing technical debt.