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Going to the Cloud
Jim Lepianka discusses how to prepare the enterprise to move to the cloud through consolidation, optimization, automation, and orchestration.
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Kanban System Design
Karl Scotland on Kanban as a way of creating a model improving a business’ capability to meet its purpose based on systems thinking, workflow, visualization, work in process, cadence, and learning.
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Craft and Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg believes that software engineering and craftsmanship are not mutually exclusive, and there is synergy between them, explaining how to combine them in the software development process.
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Panel: Who Says You Have to Be a Guy to Be a Geek?
Susan Potter and JP Chance address the issue of being few women in software development teams, explaining why it matters, and what can be done to improve the situation.
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The Kiev Experiment: Evolving Agile Partnerships
Simon Ogle, Alexander Kikhtenko, and Peter Thomas present a case study of a development team transitioning from a waterfall approach to 15 offshore Agile teams over a period of 5 years.
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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile
Roy Osherove discusses three maturity stages of a team and adjusting leadership accordingly, along with techniques meant to bring craftsmanship and maturity in a software development team.
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Innovation at Google
Patrick Copeland on pretotyping: innovators beat ideas, pretotypes beat productypes, data beats opinions, doing beats talking, simple beats complex, now beats later, commitment beats committees.
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Learning and Perverse Incentives: The Evil Hat
Liz Keogh talks about perverse incentives that hinder the ability to reach the purpose for which they were created for, outlining the need to focus on the system built not its solutions.
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Remediation Patterns - How to Achieve Low Risk Releases
Jez Humble presents remediation patterns based on prevention, low risk release through automate provisioning and deployment plus dev/test/ops collaboration, and incremental delivery.
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Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development
Craig Larman explains the internal workings of a customer-supplier relationship, advising on how to proceed to ensure an offshore Agile development that is fulfilling for both parties.
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From Months to Minutes - Upping the Stakes
Dan North reviews many Agile practices and concepts, mentioning what has really made the difference over the years and what has not, outlining what helps high performing teams to do their job.
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The Invisible Computer Lab
Fraser Speirs presents how computers are used at Cedars School, makes some suggestions on what educational software needs in order to be efficient, and how he sees the future of ICT in education.