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Hendrik Esser on Leadership in a Large Scale Agile Transition
Hendrik Esser discusses the leadership challenges and changes in Ericsson's large scale Agile transition. He describes how trust and transparency have been achieved across all levels of the organization, and the cultural changes that have resulted.
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Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun
Adam Weisbart discusses making Agile fun, through the use of resources he has developed such as "Build Your Own Scrum", "Retrospective Cookies", "Update The Card Wall" and "Agile Antipatterns", all of which can be found at http://weisbart.com/.
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Stefan Tilkov on REST and Hypermedia, ROCA, WebSockets vs. HTTP
Stefan Tilkov explains the importance of Hypermedia in REST and how to use it, ROCA (Resource oriented client architecture), WebSockets vs polling or server sent events, and much more.
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Mike Cottmyer on Enterprise Level Agile Transformation
Mike Cottmyer talks about the three aspects needed for enterprise-wide agile adoption: structure, practice & culture and how they need to be incrementally changed to ensure agile transformation sticks. He discusses the importance of program and portfolio level changes and how organisational transformation needs a "guitar mummy" approach to embed the new ways of working.
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Laurent Sansonetti on Writing Ruby Apps for iOS with RubyMotion
Laurent Sansonetti explains using Ruby for iOS development with RubyMotion, how Garbage Collection works in RubyMotion, the library ecosystem, the state of debugging and profiling, and much more.
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Liz Keogh Discusses Behaviour Driven Development and Cynefin
Independent Lean and Agile Coach Liz Keogh talks to InfoQ about how Behaviour Driven Development isn't really about testing and how knowing where you are in the Cynefin framework can help you choose more appropriate practices for your project.
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Eric Evans and Brian Foote discuss the state of Software Design
Eric Evans (Creator of Domain-Driven Design), and Brian Foote (Big Ball of Mud, Patterns Languages of Program Design), discuss the current state of software design, reminisce about the Small talk good old days, explain patterns from Domain-Driven Design, UML, Big Balls of Mud, and more.
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Brian LeRoux on Mobile Web vs. Native, PhoneGap Build, Firefox OS
Brian LeRoux talks about the PhoneGap Build service, mobile web apps vs native, Facebook's switch to a native iOS app, PhoneGap adoption in emerging markets, Firefox OS, Adobe's web tools and more.
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Linda Cook on Management Debt and Diversity in the Workplace
Linda Cook is a board member of the Agile Alliance. She talks about the impact of Management Debt on the ability of teams to be fully successful, diversity in the workplace and the impact of women leaving technical fields and the international role of the Agile Alliance.
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Ed Yourdon on the State of Agile and Trends in IT
At the Agile 2012 conference Ed Yourdon was interviewed and discussed the state of the industry, the uptake of agile methods and the level of awareness about these topics in senior management. He spoke about the similarities and differences between agile and previous process improvement initiatives, how agile requires cultural change and what is needed to enable that cultural change to happen.
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Robert Greene on Versant's Java NoSQL Solution and JPA 2.0 Support
In this interview recorded at QCon New York 2012 Conference, Robert Greene from Versant Corporation discusses Versant's NoSQL database and their JPA 2.0 compliant Java NoSQL solution. He also talked about transparency of data access across the physical nodes when using NoSQL databases.
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Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd on Professional Coaching and Leading Conflict
Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd discuss the discipline of professional coaching, leading and facilitating conflict and the right view when thinking about conflict.