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The Importance of Culture - Building and Sustaining Effective Engineering Organizations
Randy Shoup discusses several important aspects of engineering cultures: hiring and retention, ownership and collaboration, quality and discipline, and learning and experimentation.
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Taking Back Agile
Tim Ottinger and Ruud Wijnands present how to give freedom to a team, to empower people, and reach a higher level of development, how to take agile back for yourself and your team.
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The Flow of Innovation
Ross Dawson keynotes on innovation, the driving forces and factors catalyzing innovation in today’s rapidly evolving technological and social landscape.
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The Rationale for Continuous Delivery (or What Does ‘Good’ Look Like?)
Dave Farley looks at a history littered with inefficient processes resulting in poor quality and failed projects, wondering how we got here, what can be done and what does good really look like?
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Design: A Tricky Business
Hannah Tometzki shares advice from experience on going through the hurdles of project design - customers dragging their feet, rekindling waning enthusiasm and handling distractions.
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Why BDD Can Save Agile
Matt Wynne presents unwanted patterns one can recognize from his own team, and provides insight on how to fix them.
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Progress from "What?" and "So what?" to "NOW WHAT?"
Larry Maccherone presents his top 10 tips for using data to influence others toward better decisions.
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Learning to Become Agile, with Retrospectives
Ben Linders explains the "what" and "why" of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring.
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Agile Means Business, so Learn to Think like the CxO
Lee Cunningham discusses the primary concerns of different executive-level roles and explores ways to relate Agile principles and practices to the concerns of the executives in the organization.
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Back to the Future: What Ever Happened to Being eXtreme?
Rachel Davies talks about the practical experience from teams using XP for 8 years, what they dropped and what elements of XP they adapted to have better infrastructure for global development.
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Productivity Is Killing Us
Adam Yuret discusses how a focus on resource efficiency impedes flow while creating mountains of failure demand and fracturing an organization into competing silos.
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Dream Job? The Vision and Journey to the Company Culture You Want
Helen Walton and Pete Burden offer insight into how important culture is to a business and happiness, and the practical tools needed to make a vision become reality.