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Feeding the Agile Beast
Dean Stevens proposes a way of integrating the business value concept into everyday Agile activity in order to achieve a higher value for an enterprise.
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Learning from Five Years as a Skype Architect
Andres Kutt shares lessons learned at Skype: rules of thumb don’t always apply, functionality is important, simple solutions, buzzwords are dangerous, and communication is important.
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Feature Bits: Enabling Flow Within and Across Teams
Erik Sowa and Rob Loh present the Feature Bits technique used by Lyris, detailing the business context, the solution design, the data model, and coding patterns, plus lessons learned using it.
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Changing Culture to Enable DevOps
Changing tools is easy when compared to changing people and processes. How can we cultivate an organization’s culture to identify and solve DevOps problems?
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The Lean Influencer’s Mantra
Siraj Sirajuddin talks about the Change Agent’s role in introducing Lean and Kanban in large organizations, the Lean philosophy, the forces and dynamicas related to Lean and Kanban adoption.
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Sustainable Design for Agile Teams
Eric Evans advocates on gradual blending of modeling and design into iterative development in an attempt to create a solution that expresses the domain and is flexible enough to support changes.
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Through the Lean Looking Glass
Christophe Louvion tells the story of an online advertising company which exchanged Scrum with Kanban, applying Lean principles at all levels of the organization, change that saved the company.
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Service-Oriented Solution Evaluation Criteria
Paul Mooney explains what SOA actually is by envisioning an implementation journey from establishing a route, planning it, making it and arriving at the destination.
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Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity
David Anderson discusses the role of Kanban in bringing accelerated high maturity in organizations, presenting evidence of such organizations achieving high maturity in very short time (3-9 months).
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Enabling Development: Accessible Platforms
R.I. Pienaar discusses how ops should empower devs by providing accessible platforms which are easy to understand, use and access, so devs can have a clear view of the network they are deploying to.
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Sky.com: Behind Britain’s Entertainment Infrastructure
Glenn Saqui and Jon Mullen present the process used at Sky.com: recruitment, work area, continuous integration, tools, pairing, weekly and daily process, story cards, and the production environment.
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Making the Work Visible
Alisson Vale presents how Kanban is used to express the understanding of a system by making the work, the workflow, communication, time, information, engineering traceability, and movements visible.