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Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty
When we start a project, can methodology be mandated, or is it arbitrary? At Agile2006 Todd Little shared a model to help leaders choose, and emphasised project 'steering' for success.
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Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics
Zed Shaw talks about Mongrel and its impact. For companies, the talk contains valuable information about Dos/Don'ts when interacting with open source teams.
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Leading the Agile Way: Duty. Honor. Delivery.
In this video Mark Salamango and John Cunningham looked at their experiences of introducing Agile in the Army, and how frequent delivery offers Agile leaders a kind of "soft" but very effective power.
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Introduction to Visual Studio Team System
Ken Jones provides a framework for utilizing Visual Studio Team System, (VSTS), to support a development team and build better applications.
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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development
This 90-minute talk reviewed 20th century theories, including Toyota and Deming, and addressed "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, standards and "balance sheet thinking".
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I don't like Mondays
Teams moving from command-and-control to a collaborative culture may find themselves in non-stop meetings. In this Agile2007 talk, an Agile coach offers guidance on how to alleviate meeting burnout.
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Leading From A Position Of No Power: A Customer’s Perspective of an Agile Team
Last year Agile coach Alexia Bowers walked a mile in a project customer's shoes, and told us at Agile2006 how it felt. She stressed the need to strive for creativity instead of cutting scope.
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Modifiability: Or is there Design in Agility?
Martin Fowler & panelists explore the myth that agile methods mean an absence of design. Design still happens in agile projects, but it shifts from an up-front phase to a continual evolution.
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Planning and Maintaining the Rhythm of Distributed Scrum
BMC Identity Management used Scrum to handle uncertain requirements when developing their next generation product with a distributed team of 50 on 4 continents.
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Homer's Odyssey or My Life as an Agile Consultant
Agile2006 Jean Tabaka likened Agile implementation hurdles to those detailed in Homer's classic. Find out who's who: Cyclops, the Sirens, Poseidon, Circe, Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, Argus...
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Reflecting Forward – A Guided Agile Transition
Reflections on a Fortune 500 company's transition from RUP to Agile, to achieve faster time to market. At Agile2006 Hussman & Stenstad discussed keeping change respectful and shared lessons learned.
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Democratizing the Cloud
The web is rocking the world of developers. Hence, at Microsoft, they are trying to stretch the .NET framework to cover the Cloud such that applications can be developed and run anywhere.
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