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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Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty
Posted by Christophe on February 19, 2008
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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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InfoQ: Fiat Lux
Posted by Christophe on February 19, 2008
There has been a lot of complaints lately about the inability to stream the videos from the InfoQ web site.
According to their web site, this is now fixed.
“Good News: We have re-worked our video infrastructure to provide more reliable service. Please email bugs at infoq.com with any problems. “
Time to go back to all those videos.
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Leading the Agile Way: Duty. Honor. Delivery.
Posted by Christophe on January 22, 2008
Here is a video about agile’s use in a governmental organization: at the 2006 APLN Leadership Summit Mark Salamango and John Cunningham looked at the problems and opportunities of introducing Agile in Army environments. True agile practices cannot be ‘commanded’ or ‘directed’ but frequent delivery offers Agile leaders a “soft” kind of power that is, in fact, very effective
–infoQ
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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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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development
Posted by Christophe on November 30, 2007
Mary presented a fantastic overview of leadership through time and how lean looks at the question.
While on one Scrum side, independent powerless process leaders (scrummaster) are key to the product development cycle, Mary describe the opposite lean approach where process leaders don’t exist but are rather embodied by strong functional manager.
Mary recently responded to a related post I made on the leandevelopment yahooo group pointing to Kaoru Ishikawa’s “What is Totally Quality Control? The Japanese Way” where he says:
- The fundamental principle of successful management is to allow subordinates to make full use of their ability.
- Top managers and middle managers must be bold enough to delegate as much authority as possible. That is the way to establish respect for humanity as your management philosophy.
A fascinating different view from the “traditional” scrum way.
Watch the video on infoQ. It will make you think…
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Mike Cohn on “Agile Estimation”
Posted by Christophe on November 13, 2007
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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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Hubert Smits on ” How To Plan Projects With Distributed Teams”
Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007
Hubert Smits will give a hands-on overview of the activities that are involved in larger agile projects. Larger projects stretch out over more then a few months and have more then a single team involved. Things get more complex when the teams are not collocated. Hubert has based the talk on his paper “Multi Level Planning for Agile Projects” and presents a practical implementation of the planning levels. The experience he uses in the presentation is taken from his work as an agile coach for Rally Software Development, which brings him to projects with teams scattered across the globe: the US, Europe, Middle East and Far East.
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