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Agile Development Practices 2008: Making People and Processes Congruent[presentation] Agile processes work better if developers and customers have specific aptitudes and attitudes, such as the ability and willingness to handle rapid change. |
Ken Pugh, Net Objectives
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Agile Development Practices 2008: When to Step Up, When to Step Back: How to Lead Collaboration[presentation] Leaders can stifle progress when they interfere with team processes. But as a leader, you don't want an on-track project to go over the cliff and deliver the wrong results either. |
Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova
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Selling Agile: Getting Buy-in from Your Team, Customers, and Managers[presentation] Are you excited by the potential of agile software development, but find that your colleagues are a bit reticent? Is your whole team ready to dive in, but your business partner is only interested in dipping in their big toe-if that? |
Michele Sliger, Sliger Consulting, Inc.
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Beware of Your Brain[presentation] Cognitive scientists tell us that we are more productive and happier when our behavior matches our brain's hardwiring-when what we do and why we do it matches the way we have evolved to survive over tens of thousands of years. |
Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
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Scaling Agile: Kanban and Beyond...[presentation] Agile software development has been around for almost ten years. Some believe lean is the next step in our evolution. How do agile and lean play together, and what does the lean influence mean for the future of agile? |
David Anderson, Modus Cooperandi, Inc.
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Collaborative Leadership: A Secret to Agile Success[presentation] When members of a development project are asked to become a self-directed agile team, some claim that leadership and leaders are obsolete. Or, is a different type of leadership exactly what agile teams need to truly flourish? |
Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova
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Beyond Best Practices: Keeping Agile Agile[presentation] Adopting "best practices" seems to be an intrinsic part of the transition to agile-with many organizations creating special process teams and hiring methodology consultants to implement and enforce best practices. |
Dan North, ThoughtWorks
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Do the Right Thing: Adapting Requirements Practices for Agile Projects[presentation] Some agile teams rely on user stories alone to articulate requirements, struggle with requirements rework on large agile projects, and spend too much time thrashing on requirements during iterations. |
Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting, Inc.
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Behavior-Driven Database Design[presentation] Agile methods focus on creating executable code quickly and with fewer defects. But what about the database? The database is "the" component of the application that is thought to be the least agile and often excluded from agile development. |
Pramod Sadalage, ThoughtWorks Inc
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Value Stream Mapping - Extending Our View to the Enterprise[presentation] What if the process improvements you are trying to make are not where your real problems lie? Assuming where your problems are is often the biggest problem. |
Alan Shalloway, Net Objectives
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Secrets of CMMI for Agile Organizations[presentation] Are you convinced that agile development methods and process improvement methods such as CMMI® don't go together? Have you been the victim of a ton of process overhead dropped on your head? It doesn't have to be that way. |
Jeff Dalton, Broadsword Solutions Corporation
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Agile Project Metrics[presentation] Agile projects and traditional projects are tracked differently. The key difference is that agile projects track outcomes; traditional projects track activities. |
David Nicolette, Valtech Technologies
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Calling all Agile Skeptics - the Curious, and Die-Hard, Non-Agile[presentation] Not convinced about agile? Curious about this new approach, but not sure it makes any sense? Does it feel like agile goes against everything your experience tells you is the right thing to do? |
Damon Poole, AccuRev
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Driving Agile Transformation from the Top Down[presentation] While agile practices are starting to make their way into large enterprises, in most instances this has been a "bottom up" movement driven through grassroots efforts. |
David Wilby, Borland Software
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Driving User Stories from Business Value[presentation] Implementations of agile and Scrum typically employ user stories as the primary method for discovering requirements. User stories provide the mechanism for the fast, flexible flow of ideas into completed increments of software. |
Guy Beaver, Net Objectives
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