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Boris Gloger on “Heartbeat Retrospectives to Amplify Team Effectiveness”

Posted by Christophe on June 26, 2008

In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Boris Gloger speaks about retrospectives. Agile development teams learn and improve by inspecting and adapting. High performing teams inspect and adapt not only their code and tests, but also their methods and interactions.

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Mary Poppendieck on “The role of leadership in software development”

Posted by Christophe on June 21, 2008

When you look around, there are a lot of leaders recommended for software development. We have the functional manager and the project manager, the scrum master and the black belt, the product owner and the customer-on-site, the technical leader and the architect, the product manager and the chief engineer.
Clearly that’s too many leaders. So how many leaders should there be, what should they do, what shouldn’t they do, and what skills do they need?
This is a presentation and discussion
Mary Poppendieck of leadership roles in software development — what works, what doesn’t and why.

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Agile 2008: program locked

Posted by Christophe on June 15, 2008

The program for Agile 2008 is now available for all stages:

  • Main Stage
  • Designing, Testing & Thinking with Examples
  • Research
  • Agile & Organizational Culture
  • Breaking Acts
  • Distributed Agile
  • Questioning Agile
  • Leadership & Teams
  • Customers & Business Value
  • Learning & Education
  • User Experience
  • Live Aid
  • Developer Jam
  • Open Jam
  • Tools for Agility
  • Chansons Françaises
  • Committing to Quality
  • Musik Masti
  • Legacy Systems

I’ll be presenting “Leadership Success Recipes for Agile in the 21st Century” with Jean Tabaka, Tuesday in Dominion South (10:45-12:15).

I will also be a panelist on “Functional roles, managers and individual growth in Agile contexts” with Rachel Weston, Peter Alfvin, Esther Derby, and Michael Spayd, Wednesday in Dominion South — (08:30-10:00).

See you there.

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Joseph Pelrine on “Dealing With the Organizational Challenges of Agile Adoption”

Posted by Christophe on June 15, 2008

In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Joseph Pelrine talks about the challenges faced by organizations trying to adopt Agile methods. There are times when organizations fail to become agile, and Joseph offers some reasons why that happens. An important factor in Agile adoption is understanding and mitigating conflicts.

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Quote of the day

Posted by Christophe on June 15, 2008

Most teams aren’t teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
- Douglas McGregor

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Rachel Davies on Generic Agile

Posted by Christophe on June 2, 2008

In this interview taken by Deborah Hartmann during Agile 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about Generic Agile, about the necessity to understand what is important in a development process, rather than sticking with a strict Agile method.

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