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Brian Marick on 4 Challenges and 5 Guiding Values of Agile Software Development
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
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Second Generation Lean Product Development: From Cargo Cult to Science
Don Reinertsen explains why the ideas of lean manufacturing, though perfect for the predictable work of manufacturing, are inadequate for product developers.
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Tamara Sulaiman on Tips And Techniques For Implementing An Agile Program Across Distributed Teams
Tamara Sulaiman shares templates, pictures, lessons learned for leveraging technology, managing multiple time zones, recommendations for metrics and reporting, and ideas for program level success.
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Lean Thinking: What is Distinctive About It and Where is It Going?
The question of where lean came from and how it has developed into a complete business system is addressed.
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Jeff Patton on Lean Product Discovery
The most difficult part isn't delivery, but the discovery of products that are truly valuable to the people that use them. Jeff Patton explores applying Lean thinking to product discovery.
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Lessons from Target Value Design
Hal defines and explains the 9 foundational Target Value Design practices that lean designers embrace to produce coherent work product without the usual shortcomings of the historical practice.
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Re-thinking Lean Service
Taiichi Ohno discovered some counter-intuitive truths as he developed the Toyota System. Similar counter-intuitive truths wait to be discovered by leaders of service organisations.
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Pragmatic Personas: Putting the User back in User Stories
Jeff briefly reviews the different ways that software is currently built and then describes how to create and use user personas to design and build software that has a better user experience.
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Kanban Adoption at SEP
We will explore how Kanban teams at SEP matured through the lens of the Dreyfus Model for Skill Acquisition.
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The Tyranny of "The Plan"
Predictability in the face of variability comes from establishing a reliable workflow and coupling it with pull scheduling. It comes from creating an adaptive, learning system, not a planned system.
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BDD & DDD
Dan North gives an overview of Domain Driven Design and Behavior Driven Development then ties them together for a powerful mix.
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The Bold, New Extreme programming Experiment; Now in its 9th Year
Brian Spears shares his company's experience adopting and evolving extreme programming over 9 years.