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Alan Shalloway on “Principles and Practices of Lean-Agile Software Development”

Posted by Christophe on November 22, 2008

In this presentation held during Agile 2008, Alan Shalloway presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners.

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Linda Rising: Prejudices Can Alter Team Work

Posted by Christophe on November 14, 2008

In this interview filmed during Agile 2008, following the presentation “Who Do You Trust?”, Linda Rising shows how prejudices can affect the relationships between team members. According to Linda, we all have a tendency to categorize others based on characteristics like race, religion, sex, but also based on more trivial characteristics, and many times we are not even aware we are doing it.

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Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams

Posted by Christophe on November 14, 2008

In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum.

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Quote – Darwin

Posted by Christophe on November 14, 2008

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change

-Darwin

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Pressure and Performance – The CTO’s Dilemma

Posted by Christophe on November 14, 2008

I participated to a panel at Agile 2008, with Diana Larsen, Chair of the Agile Alliance board of directors, and Jim Shore. In this interview made by Deborah Hartmann during the conference, Diana and Jim talk about patterns observed in CTOs’ activity. CTOs emerge as real people caring for other people in their organization, and are put under a lot of pressure and constraints.

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