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Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: How to Build Any Team Any Time
You can learn to build any team any time with this foundational framework for leading yourself and others to high levels of ownership behavior, learning, collaboration, and engagement.
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Transparency: A Great Leap Forward or Exposed Artery?
Agile propagandists make great claims about the advantages of being transparent about the state of their projects. But is this true? Surely Transparency is just not pragmatic?
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10 Ways to Improve Your Code
Neal Ford, an architect at ThoughtWorks, shows 10 ways to write better code. This is practical advice for developers, but application architects can benefit from it too.
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Managers in Scrum
This presentation explores how the role of managers changes in Scrum. It helps managers to lead the introduction of Scrum acting as role models
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Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD
An introduction to BDD and how to make plain text User Stories executable with RSpec's Story Framework, which is written in Ruby, but runs against production code written in any programming language.
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A Kanban System for Software Engineering
David Anderson presents a brief history of the kanban system through case study reports from teams at Microsoft and Corbis.
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Presentation: The Ethics of Error Prevention
We are charged with the task of writing software that is reliable, sturdy, and trustworthy. Michael Feathers examines error-prevention in the history of our discipline and considers possible futures.
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Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
Pramod presents material from the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book "Refactoring Databases : Evolutionary Database Design" on implementing evolutionary database development.
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10 Tips for Successful Agile Transitions
Joshua Kerievsky boils down the key issues that will help you and your organization to transition to Agile methods successfully - and these aren't the same old pieces of advice you hear everyday.
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Craftsmanship and Ethics
In this talk Robert C. Martin outlines the practices used by software craftsmen to maintain their professional ethics.
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Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com
Dan Farino talks about administering thousands of web servers from a system’s architect viewpoint, detailing on performance counter monitoring, the system profiler and the system administration site.
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Being Dumb And Using It To Your Advantage
In this talk from RubyFringe, Matt Todd recommends to stop worrying and simple start implementing ideas, dumb or not.