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Dealing with Information Overload and Improving Effectiveness
Scott Hanselman advices on dealing with information overload: audit and sort info sources, schedule work sprints, turn off distractions, triaging the inbox, having a personal toolbox.
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Deliver Early - There Is No Excuse!
Jesper Boeg discusses why it is important to deliver software early, why it is difficult to do so, along with tools/tips/practices: shared vision, story maps, coaching, and others.
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Technical Debt - Why You Should Care
Felipe Rubim discusses several forms of technical debt, emphasizing that every member of the team should consider it, and suggesting taking concrete steps in measuring and reducing it.
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Agile/UX Panel
Jeremy Sutherland, Darius Kumana, Eewei Chen, Darci Dutcher, and Richard Muscat (moderator) discuss the relationship between Agile and UX design.
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Retrospectives: A Bit of Ceremony Can Be Useful
Aino Corry’s message is that if we skip retrospectives there will be problems that we don’t understand where they come from nor what to do to solve them.
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Decisions, Decisions
Dan North engages the audience into a discussion about the tradeoffs involved in making decisions regarding the team composition, development style, architecture, and deployment solutions.
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The Frustrated Architect
Simon Brown discusses the role of the software architect, challenging some of the current assumptions and trying to redefine it in the context of Agile development.
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Lean Startup: Why It Rocks Far More Than Agile Development
Joshua Kerievsky discusses Lean Startup -a disciplined, scientific and capital efficient method for discovering and building products and services that people love-, comparing it with Agile.
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Moving Back to Scrum and Scaling to Scrum of Scrums in Less than One Year
Rafael Maranzato tells the story of a team who initially failed to adopt Scrum, but they tried again, successfully adopting it and moving to Scrum of Scrums within one year.
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Scaling Agile to the Enterprise
Dennis Stevens discusses the theory of Agile, providing references for using Agile in the enterprise along with a competency model, and overviewing an enterprise Agile transformation.
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Coming Out of Your Shell: Using UX Workshops to Your Advantage in a Techie/Scientific Setting
Jenny Cham teaches how to plan workshops having a technical or scientific audience in order to impress the audience, get feedback and get the best results.
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Who Ever Said Programs Were Supposed to be Pretty?
Brian Foote wonders in this session if the quest for clean or beautiful code makes sense in a bottom-line obsessed business world.
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