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Mike Cottmeyer on Agile in the Enterprise
Mike Cottmeyer is focused on maintaining business agility while adopting team agility. He shares various techniques and strategies that are successful with larger organizations when adopting and adapting agile techniques. He also shares his experience helping people transition from traditional project management to agile project management.
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David Anderson Talks Kanban, Agile and the Lean Software and Systems Consortium
David Anderson discusses using the Kanban concept to make software development more efficient, the use of Kanban in both a large enterprise organization and as a consultant, how Kanban (in association with related systems such as CONWIP and Drum-Buffer-Rope) is catching on in the industry and helping developers improve predictability of their software, and the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.
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Dave Hoover On Apprenticeship Patterns
Dave Hoover tells his story of becoming a software developer why he wrote Apprenticeship Patterns for those new to the development world. He gives a couple of examples of the patterns in his books and how he sees readers benefiting from the information in the book.
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Dan North on Behavior Driven Development
Dan North discusses the roots of BDD and what it is today. Dan reviews the early history of BDD and then dives into the details of BDD; what it is, how it relates to teamwork, functional and non-functional requirements, and legacy code.
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Michael Feathers and Steve Freeman on Design
Michael Feathers interviews Steve Freeman in an informal setting about current design techniques and the evolution of the software development community. They focus on the role of design in the community, how it has evolved, and where they think it needs to go.
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Jeff Patton on User Centered Design and Story Mapping
Jeff Patton describes the different ways Agile teams deal with users and then digs in deep into story mapping. Jeff says: "For me, the story mapping thing is going back to using the story as a genuine conversation to actually drive understanding of the system, not as what I've seen it become – molecular conversation about the details of a particular feature and how we're going to test it.
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Adrian Colyer on AspectJ, tc Server and dm Server
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer talks to InfoQ about AspectJ. The interview explores how products such as Spring Roo are using AspectJ, and how ideas from AspectJ helped SpringSource improve the Groovy compiler inside Eclipse. Colyer also discusses SpringSource's two server offerings, dm Server and tc Server, OSGi and Scrum.
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Henrik Kniberg on Different Agile Processes
Henrik Kniberg discusses the differences among different Agile processes such as Scrum, XP, and Kanban. He shares the thought that processes wars are meaningless and we need to see each process as a tool; there are no bad tools; just tools used for the wrong purpose.
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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on Agile Design and Architecture
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock talks about different techniques that are useful for Agile teams to create and maintain good design and architecture. She discusses the use of light weight techniques, such as the use of CRC cards for thinking about and discussing design regularly. She also discusses evolutionary and emergent design and the importance of doing things at the responsible moment.
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Dan Mezick on Group Relations, Agile Games, and the Agile-PMI Initiative
Dan describes the importance of group relations to Agile adoption and how an awareness of group dynamics can help keep energy focused on the task at hand. He also suggests how Agile games can be used to prepare for an upcoming agile adoption by revealing an individual's willingness to participate fully. Finally, hshares his views on the new PMI-Agile community.
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Christopher Avery on Responsibility
Christopher Avery explains why personal responsibility is a foundational skill for any and all teams and shares his model for personal responsibility and how this affects individuals and teams in the workplace. He goes further with several concrete tips on how to form successful, high performing teams.
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Linda Rising on Placebos
Linda Rising tells us about the effectiveness of placebos and the strength of our beliefs in medicine and how these same things might relate to software development. Is Agile software development just a placebo effect? Do we get better results because we expect and believe things will get better? Or is there something more to Agile?
