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Leaner Programmer Anarchy
Fred George discusses Programmer Anarchy, a development process where programmers are not just empowered to act but the driving force behind a product, leading to substantial increase in results.
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Managing Agile: Transforming the Three Dysfunctions of Management
Diana Larsen discusses how Agile can help to overcome 3 management traps by relying on data and evidence, accepting uncertainty and unpredictability, and maintaining a whole systems view.
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QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google
Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
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Kanban Fishbowl Session
David J. Anderson leads a fishbowl session dedicated to sharing experiences and lessons learned from introducing Kanban to various organizations.
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Deliberate Discovery: Code Like You Mean It
Dan North considers that ignorance is the major roadblock on the way to success, presenting strategies and techniques for reducing it, delivering software in a more deterministic and less riskier way.
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Cooperation, Collaboration, and Awareness
John Allspaw presents technical, cultural, and process related lessons learned at Flickr and Etsy.com from the collaboration between the operations and development teams.
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BDD with Puppet & Cucumber
Tom Sulston explains how to manage systems with Cucumber and Puppet based on BDD principles, including practical tricks and pitfalls. The session demoes using those tools.
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Searching Without Objectives
Kenneth O. Stanley considers that innovation is stifled when we are strictly following a high goal, and we would progress more when we are inclined to discovery rather than following an objective.
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The Case for Evolvable Software
Stephanie Forrest believes in the possibility to create evolvable software through automated bug repair, optimizing or improving code and creating new combinations of existing functionality.
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Agile Does Not Guarantee Value Creation
Leonardo Mattiazzi considers that Scrum and XP are not enough, and complementary Lean principles and practices are necessary to create an Agile culture across the entire enterprise in order to succeed
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Proving the Business Value of SOA
Anne Thomas Manes discusses SOA goals and objectives used to measure a system’s success, measuring the business value, SOA project metrics, and recommendations on proving the business value of SOA.
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Keeping Agile Agile
Dan North argues organizations need to continuously innovate, finding new ways and practices to develop software by looking at the motivations behind Agile practices and not just implementing them.