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Lean Concepts for IT Professionals
This presentation provides background for Lean principles and introduces the idea of using those principles as a foundation for "Lean Thinking" and show how this can be applied to IT development.
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Beyond Agile: Cultural Patterns
Willem and Marc introduce cultural patterns that can be found in software organizations. By understanding the cultural patterns then you can better adapt your practices.
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Born To Cycle
We know that small increments that produce progress toward a goal is a way for teams to work successfully. Does it work well because the individuals on the team are hardwired to work in cycles?
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Agile Mashups
This talk highlights what's on offer in the different agile methods, where different agile practices add value and how to go about blending them into your current approach.
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Agility: Possibilities at a Personal Level
Is it time for a truly agile approach to how we work and live our lives? What would that mean? What are the real penalties we are paying for force fitting Industrial Age living into agile development?
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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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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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Agile Methods and User Centered Design
Dave Robertson and John Johnston explain what the Agile and User Centered Design’s (UCD) common denominators are, common values being the most important one in their opinion.
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Embrace Uncertainty
Jeff Patton explains why one needs to embrace uncertainty in order to succeed with his/her Agile project and how to avoid some of the common mistakes leading to project failure.
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Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams
Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum.
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Technical Lessons Learned Turning the Agile Dials to Eleven
Craig Smith and Paul King present their experiments with new Agile ideas leading them to better results, increased productivity and quality.