Posted by Christophe on July 7, 2009
Rallydev is running a new weekly agile live show every tuesday morning called Rally Cafe.
In each show, they give tips on a different coffee type, find something relevant in the news and get a guest to answer a few questions (including from viewers).
With the tour de France going on, they thought of me as a guest for their third show. It is now available on ustream.
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Posted by Christophe on June 23, 2009
Today, distributed teams are stuck between 3 bad choices:
-use a limited online collaboration tool, and miss human interaction
-use local white boards, and miss real time information sharing
18 month ago, I wrote about Quickies -technology supported sticky notes- to bridge the white board and it’s online counterpart.
Minority Report offered a pure digital version of the white board.
According to Schematic, this is maybe not that far away…
Forget the number of LoC (lines of code) metric, here comes the DoG (distance of gesture) productivity metric.
You gotta love progress.
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Posted by Christophe on May 13, 2009
I don’t have the habit of ripping another blogpost content, but found this post by Kelly Waters just too good not to pass on.
Enjoy.
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Posted by Christophe on April 19, 2009
New videos from Agile 2008 are still coming out. In this one, Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the ‘next level’ and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile.
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Posted by Christophe on March 30, 2009
In this Qcon 2008 presentation, David Anderson presents a brief history of the kanban system through case study reports from teams at Microsoft and Corbis. Kanban acts to limit work-in-progress and focus the team on achieving a continuous flow of value to the customer and innovates on accepted agile management practices by providing an iteration-less process with a regular release cadence.
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Posted by Christophe on March 17, 2009
High performance depends on the self-organizing capability of teams. Understanding how this works and how to avoid destroying self-organization is a challenge. Until you understand complex adaptive systems and how Toyota works it is difficult to improve team velocity.
Jeff will discuss three core topics:
1. Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams.
2. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise known as the choice uncertainty principle.
3. Punctuated equilibrium – how software systems evolve
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Posted by Christophe on March 12, 2009
In this interview at Agile 2008, Pollyanna Pixton tells us that within a culture of trust leaders must stand back and if they don’t then they are hampering and restricting the productivity and the creativity and the innovation of teams. She discusses how leaders can foster a culture of trust and what they must do to get the most out of Agile teams.
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Posted by Christophe on February 14, 2009
Sloppy developers create sloppy code; no matter how “Agile” , without strong engineering practices, they just pile up junk code.
In this talk on infoQ Robert C. Martin outlines the practices used by software craftsmen to maintain their professional ethics. He resolves the dilemma of speed vs. quality, and mess vs schedule. He provides a set of principles and simple Dos and Don’ts for teams who want to be counted as professional craftsmen.
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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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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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