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The Development of a New Car at Toyota
Kenji Hiranabe talks about Toyota's development process of a new car. Kenji shares his experience meeting Nobuaki Katayama, former Chief Engineer at Toyota, and the lessons he learned from him.
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Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning
Mike Cohn talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging.
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Introduction to Agile for Traditional Project Managers
This session is specifically aimed at traditionally trained project managers who are new to Agile, and who would like to be able to relate the PMI's best practices to their Agile equivalents.
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Agile in the Waterfall Enterprise by Michele Sliger
In large organizations, it’s simply not practical to just "flip a switch" and have your IT department start doing agile all at once.
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The Agile Enterprise: Real World Experience in Creating Agile Companies
Creating a successful Scrum team is only the first step on the road to an Agile company. A successful product portfolio delivered by distributed/outsourced teams is also needed.
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Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty
When we start a project, can methodology be mandated, or is it arbitrary? At Agile2006 Todd Little shared a model to help leaders choose, and emphasised project 'steering' for success.
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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development
This 90-minute talk reviewed 20th century theories, including Toyota and Deming, and addressed "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, standards and "balance sheet thinking".
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I don't like Mondays
Teams moving from command-and-control to a collaborative culture may find themselves in non-stop meetings. In this Agile2007 talk, an Agile coach offers guidance on how to alleviate meeting burnout.
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Leading From A Position Of No Power: A Customer’s Perspective of an Agile Team
Last year Agile coach Alexia Bowers walked a mile in a project customer's shoes, and told us at Agile2006 how it felt. She stressed the need to strive for creativity instead of cutting scope.
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Planning and Maintaining the Rhythm of Distributed Scrum
BMC Identity Management used Scrum to handle uncertain requirements when developing their next generation product with a distributed team of 50 on 4 continents.
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Homer's Odyssey or My Life as an Agile Consultant
Agile2006 Jean Tabaka likened Agile implementation hurdles to those detailed in Homer's classic. Find out who's who: Cyclops, the Sirens, Poseidon, Circe, Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, Argus...
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Reflecting Forward – A Guided Agile Transition
Reflections on a Fortune 500 company's transition from RUP to Agile, to achieve faster time to market. At Agile2006 Hussman & Stenstad discussed keeping change respectful and shared lessons learned.