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Understanding the Magic of Lean Product Development
Don Reinertsen examines lean methods including queue management, batch size reduction, WIP constraints, cadence, and the governing economic tradeoffs.
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Personal Retrospectives: Self-acquaintance and Agility
Ainsley Nies explains how to perform a personal retrospective: Clarify the Purpose, Assess Decision-making Influences, Gather Data, Distill the Learning and Transform Leaning into Plans.
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A Scalable, Peer-led Model for Building Good Habits in Large & Diverse Development Teams
Jason Gorman presents how developers can learn TDD to the point of transforming the knowledge acquired into habits by exercising a number of practices followed by peer evaluation.
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Deliberate Practice in Software Development
This talk covers Deliberate Practice in Software Development, a.k.a. the theory behind craftsmanship. Areas covered include nature vs nurture, the value of practice, & elements of deliberate practice.
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Agile and Beyond - The Power of Aspirational Teams
Tim Mackinnon talks about the aspirations behind the Agile principles and practices, the desire to become efficient, to write quality code which does not end up being thrown away.
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Martin Fowler and Dan North Point Out a Yawning Crevasse of Doom
Martin Fowler and Dan North talk about the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users. Closing this gap is extremely important in order to create successful software.
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Heartbeat Retrospectives to Amplify Team Effectiveness
This short presentation will give Scrum Masters, Team Leaders and Project Managers a framework that they can use to run heartbeat retrospectives successfully.
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