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Methodology Patterns: a Different Approach to Create a Methodology for Your Project
Giovanni Asproni suggests that teams should not blindly embrace a methodology but rather create their own suiting their specific needs by using an approach based on patterns and pattern languages.
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Performance Appraisals - The Bane of Agile Teams
Mike Mallete discusses the why performance appraisals fail and what can be done instead.
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The Art of the Retrospective
Chris Smith provides practical advice for sprint retrospectives, gathering information and identifying root causes of both problems and successes, and addressing issues from a different perspective.
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The Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment
Chris Chapman teaches delivering software without estimates through the Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment, asking the participants to collaboratively build a jigsaw puzzle.
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The EPAM Way Managing from 0 to the Dow Jones
Attila Bozso, Balazs Fejes share their experiences about growing EPAM’s Hungarian presence from zero to almost a thousand employees: startup process, recruiting talent, building middle management, etc
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Haskell in the Newsroom
Erik Hinton discusses the successes and failures of making a cultural shift in the newsroom at NYT to accept Haskell and some of the projects Haskell has been used for.
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How to Teach Your Kid to Code with Hopscotch
Samantha John explains the design considerations for creating a visual language for children and demoes Hopscotch, presenting techniques and sample projects for teaching kids to code.
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Agility is the Tool, Not the Master
Tom Gilb keynotes on agility, outlining 10 principles and his own values for Agile value delivery.
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Stakeholders
Rob Keefer outlines 7 practices that managers and other project stakeholders can use to influence an Agile team in a positive way.
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Agile UX: Is Agile from Mars and UX from Venus?
Carl Myhill, Steve Hayes highlight the key elements that a UX Design process and an Agile process have in common, providing practical tips on how to make them work together.
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The Guessing Game - Alternatives to Agile Estimation and the #NoEstimates Debate
Neil Killick exposes the risks inherent to the estimation culture, proposing practical alternatives for the project and spring level.
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XP at Unruly
Arber Pllana shares from his experience using XP at Unruly while scaling the infrastructure to handle a growing amount of traffic and data.