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Standard Work and the Lean Enterprise

Alan Chedalawada discusses Standard Work for software organizations adopting Lean through: discovering best approaches, continually improving the standards, preserving the knowledge gained over time.

Alan Chedalawada
on Jun 14, 2010

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Next Generation of Business-Driven SOA: The Convergence of Performance-Driven Business and Service-Orientation

John DesJardins believes that the new SOA will measure their businesses alignment with IT in order to asses the impact of services or of changes or new initiatives, up-time, response time, etc.

John DesJardins
on May 29, 2010

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QCon SF Keynote: Techie VC's Talk About Trends & Opportunities

Kevin Efrusy and Salil Deshpande talk about what makes a business successful or not, presenting three actual cases they have been involved with: Hyperic, G2One, SpringSource.

Salil Deshpande Kevin Efrusy
on Mar 18, 2010

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The Reincarnation of SOA

Anne Thomas Manes talks about SOA's reincarnation. Old SOA had to die because it was focused on technology and products, while the new one will be focused on architecture, principles and practices.

Anne Thomas Manes
on Jan 29, 2010

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Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea

Paul Downey covers the risks of premature standardisation, partial implementations and open extensions, cloud computing lock-in, and formal activities vs lightweight open processes like open source.

Paul Downey
on Dec 12, 2009

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Beginning an SOA Initiative

Ian Robinson on issues to be addressed when starting a new SOA project by identifying business capabilities using user stories, describing services and contracts, and setting up teams for delivery.

Ian Robinson
on Dec 01, 2009

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When it Just HAS to Work

This talk gives practical tips for adopting an agile approach to planning, team interactions and risk management. When the culture shifts, teams achieve goals sooner and safety is greatly enhanced.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Brian Shoemaker
on Sep 30, 2009

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01:25:29
RESTful Approaches To Financial Systems Integration

Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena; leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place.

Kirk Wylie
on Sep 18, 2009

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A perception index and its square peg adapter

This presentation addresses aligning and understanding development priorities in terms of business value. Replacing traditional ROI measurements with a "Perception Index" and "Square Peg Adapter."

Toby Young
on Sep 17, 2009

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51:05
Development

I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It

Agile came from small, colocated projects in the 1990s. Agile development now sits in a larger landscape and should be viewed accordingly. This talk discusses the new, larger agile development space.

Alistair Cockburn
on Sep 11, 2009

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01:10:37
Architecture & Design

Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology

In this talk from FutureRuby, Jesse Hirsh explains the history of Imperial California and the means by which its ideology infects everyone.

Jesse Hirsh
on Jul 20, 2009

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Transcendence and Passing Through the Gate

This presentation will show how agile values, ideas, and practices lead the practitioner to the threshold of transcendence (agile phase three, according to Kent Beck) and then how to "Be Agile."

Dave West
on Jul 15, 2009

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