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Taking Back Agile
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Summary
Tim Ottinger and Ruud Wijnands present how to give freedom to a team, to empower people, and reach a higher level of development, how to take agile back for yourself and your team.
Bio
Tim Ottinger is a programmer, author, trainer and globally recognized coach with over 35 years of software development experience. Ruud Wijnands is Director Systems Engineering at Philips Innovation Services.
About the conference
Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Jun 20, 2015
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Agile
by Shamal Jayakody,
Agile
by Shamal Jayakody,
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After the Snowbird meeting, we had such a flag. “Agile” was loosely enough defined, and yet clearly enough focused, to serve as a basis for people to innovate in the areas of process, practices, and human factors to achieve better results than were seen with traditional methods, as indicated by the many industry studies and surveys carried out in the 1990s and early 2000s. The loose definition of “agile” was, in the early years of the movement, its main strength. The very looseness of the definition enabled innovation. But every strength is also a weakness, when it is taken beyond the point of diminishing returns.