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The Agile Enterprise: Real World Experience in Creating Agile Companies
Creating a successful Scrum team is only the first step on the road to an Agile company. A successful product portfolio delivered by distributed/outsourced teams is also needed.
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Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty
When we start a project, can methodology be mandated, or is it arbitrary? At Agile2006 Todd Little shared a model to help leaders choose, and emphasised project 'steering' for success.
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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development
This 90-minute talk reviewed 20th century theories, including Toyota and Deming, and addressed "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, standards and "balance sheet thinking".
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I don't like Mondays
Teams moving from command-and-control to a collaborative culture may find themselves in non-stop meetings. In this Agile2007 talk, an Agile coach offers guidance on how to alleviate meeting burnout.
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Leading From A Position Of No Power: A Customer’s Perspective of an Agile Team
Last year Agile coach Alexia Bowers walked a mile in a project customer's shoes, and told us at Agile2006 how it felt. She stressed the need to strive for creativity instead of cutting scope.
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Planning and Maintaining the Rhythm of Distributed Scrum
BMC Identity Management used Scrum to handle uncertain requirements when developing their next generation product with a distributed team of 50 on 4 continents.
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Homer's Odyssey or My Life as an Agile Consultant
Agile2006 Jean Tabaka likened Agile implementation hurdles to those detailed in Homer's classic. Find out who's who: Cyclops, the Sirens, Poseidon, Circe, Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, Argus...
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Reflecting Forward – A Guided Agile Transition
Reflections on a Fortune 500 company's transition from RUP to Agile, to achieve faster time to market. At Agile2006 Hussman & Stenstad discussed keeping change respectful and shared lessons learned.
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Agile Styles: Lean and DSDM
The video reveals some of the groundwork that brought us to today's acceptance of Agile, and presents the basics of two well-known approaches to Agile software delivery: DSDM & Lean.
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An Introduction to Agile Leadership
Tim Lister explains the principles of Agile Project Leadership in the framework of the Declaration of Interdependence.
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Agile Styles: Feature Driven Development and the Crystal Methodologies
The "Agile Styles" presentation at Agile2006 introduced four popular approaches. In this half of the video Alistair Cockburn talks about his Crystal Methodologies and David J. Anderson presents FDD.
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Database Refactoring
Scott Ambler teaches teams how to integrate database roles into their iterative, incremental rhythm to increase software success. InfoQ captured Ambler's talk on Database Refactoring at Agile2006.