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  • Chad Wathington and Suzie Prince on Team Collaboration, Mingle and ThoughtWorks Studios

    Chad Wathington and Suzie Prince spoke about the importance of feedback and collaboration in teams and keeping feedback going when scaling agile beyond single teams into larger organisations. Designing feedback into the process and keeping the processes people centric. They also discussed new capabilities coming in Mingle.

    Chad Wathington and Suzie Prince on Team Collaboration, Mingle and ThoughtWorks Studios
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    11:08
  • Patric Palm on Hansoft and HansoftX

    Patric discusses the state of agile adoption, the challenges faced by combined hardware & software organisations, features in the latest release of the Hansoft product and the launch of HansoftX, a cloud based fremium service planning tool.

    Patric Palm on Hansoft and HansoftX
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    14:14
  • Damon Edwards: DevOps is an Enterprise Concern

    Damon argues DevOps is most needed in the enterprise world, and suggests starting with self-service provisioning interfaces, service oriented mentality, designing tool chains and meaningful metrics. All based on his own experience on the field as a DevOps consultant.

    Damon Edwards: DevOps is an Enterprise Concern
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    36:33
  • Jeff Patton on the Product Owner’s World

    In this interview, Jeff Patton discusses the Product Owner role and points out that Agile has never been very focused on the customer. While Agile development excels at “delivery”, it struggles to support “discovery” (i.e. defining what the customer really needs). Also discussed are techniques such as Lean Startup and story maps and the importance of defining business value in an Agile context.

    Jeff Patton on the Product Owner’s World
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    30:08
  • Development Tools for the Open Web

    Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith open with a definition of the Open Web, the tension arising from multiple Web technologies, the diversity and "polyphony" of Open Source, the future of Web development tools, and the debate associated with the possible evolution of Javascript. The potential impact of HTML 5 on tool and Web development in general is discussed.

    Development Tools for the Open Web
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    40:57
  • Erich Gamma Discusses Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit and Design Patterns

    In this interview from QCon London 2008, Erich Gamma discusses the Jazz project, why Eclipse has been successful, the strict Eclipse release schedule, JUnit, Design Patterns, how to identify a design pattern, design patterns and the 'Don't Repeat Yourself' principle, the design pattern community, and whether dependency injection is a design pattern.

    Erich Gamma Discusses Jazz, Eclipse, JUnit and Design Patterns
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    22:51
  • Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software

    Business users doing programming? In this interview, Charles Simonyi presents a radical new way of building software that separates business knowledge from software engineering knowledge. The claim is to simplify the creation process for software as business experts directly contribute using their customary domain description which results in accelerated innovation.

    Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software
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    37:10
  • Per Kroll on the Eclipse Process Framework

    The PM of the Eclipse Process Framework project explained at Agile2006 how IBM's Eclipse-based process tools allow teams to select the practices they want to create a customized methodology that works for them. With a wiki and hooks to insert custom in-house documentation and practices, it provides a framework to configure the approach you want, or to grow into the approach you need.

    Per Kroll on the Eclipse Process Framework
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  • Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer on Tesla

    The project code-named TESLA in Microsoft Research is being spearheaded by Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer. LINQ is the first technology aimed at democratizing the Internet coming from Microsoft. From Monoids to LINQ, Brian and Erik provide insight into the future of the .NET Framework languages at Microsoft and how they plan to change the Cloud as we know it today.

    Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer on Tesla
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  • Dave Astels and Steven Baker on RSpec and Behavior-Driven Development

    InfoQ interviews Dave Astels and Steven Baker, two of the authors of the successful Rspec framework about enabling Behavior-Driven Development in Ruby, and the implications of moving from a test-centric point of view to one that is more specification-driven.

    Dave Astels and Steven Baker on RSpec and Behavior-Driven Development
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    31:06
  • Ivar Jacobson on UML, MDA, and the future of methodologies

    Ivar Jacobson, one of the founders of UML, RUP, use cases, introduces his vision for a next generation development methodology that is both agile yet large like UP, by having humans collaborate with 'Intelligent Agents'. Ivar also talks about his views on UML, MDA, AOP, and the future. Recorded at JAOO (jaoo.dk).

    Ivar Jacobson on UML, MDA, and the future of methodologies
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    31:04
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