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How Did We End up Here?
Trisha Gee and Todd Montgomery attack the technology industry’s sacred cows by exposing the motivations that hide behind them.
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Overcoming Resistance to Change
Rachel Davies tells stories of successful changes that she has introduced with XP product development teams at Unruly, sharing tips for overcoming resistance and adopting new working practices.
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The Bad Idea Terminator
Melissa Perri presents how to destroy bad product ideas before they go to market while achieving the business goals and determining product strategy.
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Transformational Life of a True Agile Leader
Evelyn Tian shares stories from the transformation experiences of a manager becoming an agile leader.
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It Doesn't Work That Way in Enterprise
Pete Smith discusses the difficulties of being an enterprise developer, the limits set for development in such an environment and what can be done about it.
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The Importance of Culture - Building and Sustaining Effective Engineering Organizations
Randy Shoup discusses several important aspects of engineering cultures: hiring and retention, ownership and collaboration, quality and discipline, and learning and experimentation.
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Progress from "What?" and "So what?" to "NOW WHAT?"
Larry Maccherone presents his top 10 tips for using data to influence others toward better decisions.
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Dream Job? The Vision and Journey to the Company Culture You Want
Helen Walton and Pete Burden offer insight into how important culture is to a business and happiness, and the practical tools needed to make a vision become reality.
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A Look at Technology in Uganda
Colin Gislason explores cross-culture similarities and differences on the African continent to find practical lessons in building technology.
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How Does Agile Coaching Fit in to an Organization's Context?
Ryan Behrman runs a workshop on how to be a more effective change agent, using "Change poker" in teams to experience various aspects of change and to share best practices.
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Cake Driven Development: Engineering at MOO.com
Mike Pearce tells the story of how MOO manages to keep a fresh, startup-like culture that fosters innovation and values collaboration, while still delivering products and looking after its staff.
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Modern Leadership Through Environment Design
Matt Barcomb discusses how leaders should evolve from "managing resources" to "designing systems", balancing authority with accountability and the issue of compensation plans based on performance.