In this InfoQ interview, author and coach Linda Rising reflected on scientific research suggesting that we may be hardwired to work in small, collaborative teams. She also explained what led up to her popular Agile2006 talk “Are Agilists the Bonobos of the Software World?” which focused on their “make love not war” social rituals. The apes’ rituals, that is.
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Linda Rising on Collaboration, Bonobos and The Brain
Posted by Christophe on August 9, 2008
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Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty
Posted by Christophe on February 19, 2008
Of course, “anything more than ‘barely sufficient’ process is waste,” but what does that mean for your team, or my next project? In this 60 minute presentation from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, Todd Little shared a model to help choose the right “flavour” of Agile for different kinds of projects, and discussed the importance of ‘steering’ throughout the project’s duration.
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Little and Spayd on Agile and Organizational Change
Posted by Christophe on February 19, 2008
Agile, once the territory of “early adopters” is coming into the mainstream and meeting resistance. Does this mean Agile can’t work in more traditional teams and organizations? Not necessarily, say coaches Michael Spayd and Joe Little, in this InfoQ interview taped at Agile2006. What’s needed is an awareness of the need to facilitate organizational change.
Watch the video here.
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Agile Quality: A Canary in a Coal Mine
Posted by Christophe on January 12, 2008
Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber spoke at Agile2006 on code quality as a corporate asset. InfoQ presents video of his talk, The Canary in the Coalmine. Schwaber discussed how a degrading core codebase paralyses a team and negates any Agility gained through process improvement. He proposed strategies for management to identify, track and stop this downward spiral.
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The Value of Agile Leadership to the Enterprise
Posted by Christophe on December 4, 2007
InfoQ presents a one hour video from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, where a panel of business leaders spoke about their experiences
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Ken Beck on “Ease at Work”
Posted by Christophe on November 13, 2007
Kent Beck’s one-hour talk on “Ease at Work” from 2006 addressed those of us who spend energy silently fretting: “…but I can’t actually say that!” He maintained that there’s something profoundly wrong when frustrated developers ask, “Why do I need to turn off parts of myself to work here?” Beck explored getting off what he called the “genius-shithead rollercoaster,” a pattern that requires us to either be heroes at work… or shmucks, because we can’t be heroes. His advice: just be yourself at work.
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Agile Styles: Feature Driven Development and the Crystal Methodologies
Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007
Prominent practitioners and writers introduced four popular approaches at Agile2006 in the “Agile Styles” talk. In the first half of the presentation, Alistair Cockburn talked about his Crystal Methodologies and David J. Anderson presented Feature Driven Development (FDD)
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Scott Ambler on “Database Refactoring”
Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007
Like other leaders in the Agile community, Scott Ambler is passionate about expanding Agile practices to include all contributors to software success. Recently he has been teaching teams how to integrate database roles into the iterative, incremental rhythm of their teams. InfoQ captured Ambler’s talk on Database Refactoring at Agile2006.
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Jeff Sutherland on “Lessons learned from Scrum implementation at Google”
Posted by Christophe on October 31, 2007
Adwords introduced a Scrum implementation at Google in small steps with remarkable … all » success. As presented at the Agile 2006 conference this exemplifies a great way to start up Scrum teams. The inventor and Co-Creator of Scrum will use this approach in building the Google Scrum implementation to describe some of the subtle aspects of Scrum along with suggested next steps that can help in distributing and scaling Scrum in a “Googly way”.
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