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When Working Software Is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure

In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Mitch Lacey talks about a real life project that was on the verge of being successful, but was deemed as unsuccessful by the customer.

Mitch Lacey
on Sep 20, 2008

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01:26:50
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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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
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
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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55:50
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.

Venkat Subramaniam
on Mar 27, 2008

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01:24:12
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.

John Cunningham Mark Salamango
on Dec 31, 2007

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28:57
Culture & Methods

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".

Mary Poppendieck
on Nov 27, 2007

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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.

Jean Tabaka
on Nov 05, 2007

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01:23:39
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.

Guy Pshigoda Hubert Smits
on Oct 08, 2007

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