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Learning and Perverse Incentives: The Evil Hat
Summary
Liz Keogh talks about perverse incentives that hinder the ability to reach the purpose for which they were created for, outlining the need to focus on the system built not its solutions.
Bio
Liz Keogh is a Lean and Agile coach, developer, and a published poet, based in London. She's a well-known international speaker and a hard-core BDDer, focusing on conversation and discovery over tools, and is also known for her haikus, her Evil Hat, and writing software with pixies. She won the Gordon Pask award in 2010 for deepening existing ideas and coming up with some crazy ones of her own.
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Books mentioned and References
by Franklin Webber,
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by Rhys Parsons,
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by Tim Schafer,
Loved the presentation
by gaurav saxena,
Neuro-Linguistic Programming?
by Johnny FromCanada,
Books mentioned and References
by Franklin Webber,
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@14:03
"Waltzing with Bears" by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
"Managing the Design Factory" by Donald G. Reinertsen
@38:01
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
@41:20
"Snakes in Suits" by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare
@47:20
"The Goal" by Eliyah M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
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by Rhys Parsons,
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"The Fifth Discipline" by Peter M Senge
Loved the presentation
by gaurav saxena,
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Loved the way things were told in the presentation. One thing which strike me was about the reality and the system.
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by Tim Schafer,
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@25:52
"Six Thinking Hats" by Edward de Bono
Neuro-Linguistic Programming?
by Johnny FromCanada,
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In general, liked the presentation. But I am surprised someone of Liz's apparent intellectual calibre invokes Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which has be discredited as pseudo-science (at best).