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Natural Laws of Software Development - Deriving Agile Practices

Jeffries and Hendrickson derive Agile practices from the natural laws of software development. They don't just say "Be Agile!", but they explain why Agile practices make perfect sense.

Ron Jeffries Chet Hendrickson
on Aug 17, 2008

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01:31:10
"We Suck Less!" Is Not Enough

David Douglas and Robin Dymond discuss about companies adopting Agile, but don't go all the way, resulting in failure and rejection of it, and predictably having a negative impact on Agile's future.

David Douglas Robin Dymond
on Aug 15, 2008

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01:24:36
The Development of a New Car at Toyota

Kenji Hiranabe talks about Toyota's development process of a new car. Kenji shares his experience meeting Nobuaki Katayama, former Chief Engineer at Toyota, and the lessons he learned from him.

Kenji Hiranabe
on Aug 13, 2008

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24:49
Architecture & Design

Martin Fowler and Dan North Point Out a Yawning Crevasse of Doom

Martin Fowler and Dan North talk about the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users. Closing this gap is extremely important in order to create successful software.

Dan North Martin Fowler
on Aug 13, 2008

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Mock Roles Not Object States

Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman talk about TDD using Mock Objects. Mock Objects improves the software design and makes the code more easier to maintain and adapt to changing requirements.

Nat Pryce Steve Freeman
on Aug 10, 2008

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58:51
Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning

Mike Cohn talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging.

Mike Cohn
on Aug 07, 2008

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01:24:07
Secure Programming with Static Analysis

Creating secure code requires more than just good intentions. Static source code analysis can be used to uncover the kinds of errors that lead directly to vulnerabilities. Brian Chess shows you how.

Brian Chess
on Aug 06, 2008

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55:40
Lessons Learned from Architecture Reviews

In this presentation, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock presents some practical lessons she has learned from doing architectural reviews.

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
on Jul 29, 2008

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57:31
Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep

Dave Thomas talks about expanding people's expertise in their domains of interest by not treating them uniformly as if they had the same amount of knowledge and level of experience.

Dave Thomas
on Jul 27, 2008

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59:36
Introduction to Agile for Traditional Project Managers

This session is specifically aimed at traditionally trained project managers who are new to Agile, and who would like to be able to relate the PMI's best practices to their Agile equivalents.

Stacia Broderick
on Jul 13, 2008

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01:26:11
Meeting the Usability Challenge

In spite of the importance of user experience, usability ends up last. This presentation shows an approach to usability, focusing on activities resulting in big improvements with less effort.

Larry Constantine
on Jul 07, 2008

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Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google

In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum.

Jeff Sutherland
on Jul 03, 2008

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01:07:59