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Jeff Patton on Lean Product Discovery
The most difficult part isn't delivery, but the discovery of products that are truly valuable to the people that use them. Jeff Patton explores applying Lean thinking to product discovery.
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Mike Cottmeyer on the Agile PMP
Mike tackles the assumptions behind traditional project management and explore a more agile approach to managing time, cost, and scope.
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A Crash Course in Modern Hardware
Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, Instruction-Level Parallelism, pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, cache misses, memory performance, and tips to improve performance.
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Lessons from Target Value Design
Hal defines and explains the 9 foundational Target Value Design practices that lean designers embrace to produce coherent work product without the usual shortcomings of the historical practice.
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Re-thinking Lean Service
Taiichi Ohno discovered some counter-intuitive truths as he developed the Toyota System. Similar counter-intuitive truths wait to be discovered by leaders of service organisations.
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Pragmatic Personas: Putting the User back in User Stories
Jeff briefly reviews the different ways that software is currently built and then describes how to create and use user personas to design and build software that has a better user experience.
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Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site
Brion Vibber discusses the challenges of working with user communities, social bottlenecks, scalability of software vs communities, new approaches to scaling communities, and remaining challenges.
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Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea
Paul Downey covers the risks of premature standardisation, partial implementations and open extensions, cloud computing lock-in, and formal activities vs lightweight open processes like open source.
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Kanban Adoption at SEP
We will explore how Kanban teams at SEP matured through the lens of the Dreyfus Model for Skill Acquisition.
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The Tyranny of "The Plan"
Predictability in the face of variability comes from establishing a reliable workflow and coupling it with pull scheduling. It comes from creating an adaptive, learning system, not a planned system.
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Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods are being successfully applied to enterprise-class development.
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Five Considerations for Software Architects
Kevlin Henney does not make recommendations for architecting software but rather brings into discussion 5 considerations useful to be reflected upon: economy, visibility, spacing, symmetry, emergence.
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