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Automating Business Value with FIT and Fitnesse
The presentation will briefly discuss stories, the origin and authoring of story tests, and a demonstration of how FIT and FitNesse (FIT living within a Wiki) can be used to automate acceptance tests.
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Venkat Subramaniam's Pragmatic Factors for Agile Success
At NFJS Venkat Subramaniam, author with Andy Hunt of "Practices of an Agile Developer," talked about some of the important technical and non-technical factors that contribute to project success.
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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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