Effective Specifications and Tests for Agile Projects

Published October 3rd, 2011 Under Project Management, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This video presents a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure that the right product is delivered efficiently with short iterations. Agile projects require that the specifications and testing processes fit into short iterations, which is a challenge for business analysts and developers when they start using an Agile approach.

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Agile Team Leadership

Published September 8th, 2011 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This video discusses three maturity stages of a team and adjusting leadership accordingly, along with techniques meant to bring craftsmanship and maturity in a software development team.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Team-Leadership-in-the-Age-of-Internet

Clarity Rules!: Six Collaboration Skills for Agile Teams

Published February 14th, 2011 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

We measure project success by the team’s ability to efficiently and reliably deliver valuable, high quality software to the customer. Increase the prospect for project success by ensuring team members have the skills for effective collaboration and clear, unambiguous communication. Diana Larsen will describe the six collaboration skills teams need and show techniques to get them active in your team.

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Learning from Experience with Retrospectives

Published February 8th, 2011 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

The concept of “Kaizen” exists in Lean to build a continuous improvement culture. So how do we implement that? Many teams use retrospectives. This video discusses how we can make retrospectives effective.

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Resource: Refactoring Your Development Process with Retrospectives by Rachel Davies

Navigating Conflict on Agile Teams

Published January 31st, 2011 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This video proposes a conflict model that helps teams chart a course through conflict and turn it into a force for greatness. It walks you through five levels of conflict from “Problem to Solve” to “World War,” with each step finely tuned to view conflict in a deeply human and humane way.

Video Producer: StickyMinds.com

Scaling Agile to Work with a Distributed Team

Published January 18th, 2011 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This video looks at how agile can be scaled to work on any multi–team project. Even a project with two teams will benefit from learning how to proactively manage team dependencies, conduct iteration planning for multiple teams, cultivate communities of practice, and coordinating work. It looks also at overcoming the unique challenges facing distributed teams. You will learn to decide how to distribute a team, how to create coherence among team members, the importance of getting together and when are the most important times to use the travel budget, changes to what the team documents, and how to handle meetings when spread across timezones.

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The invisible Agile Coach

Published December 20th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This talk is about the role of an Agile Coach and how the mindset, organizational context and client types all impact the Coach’s approach. The authors presents a series of tools & techniques: seeds & harvest, facilitation, high context workshops and agile project chartering. Finally, he discusses the difference between external & internal coaches, acting as a trusted advisor and coaching a group of coaches.

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Agile Estimating

Published December 13th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

The first step in creating a useful plan is the ability to estimate reliably. In this session we will discuss how to do this. We will look at various approaches to estimating including unit–less points and ideal time. Mike Cohn presents four specific techniques for deriving reliable estimates, including how to use the popular Planning Poker® technique and other techniques that dramatically improve a project’s chances of on–time completion.

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How to Build a Sustainably Awesome Development Team

Published December 2nd, 2010 Under Project Management | 1 Comment

Based on a real project experience, this presentation covers all dimensions that make great teams: hiring, communications, methodology, environment, culture, and community.

Producer : Lone Star Ruby Conference

Getting Agile with Scrum

Published November 29th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. Over 12,000 project managers have become certified to run Scrum projects . Since its origin on Japanese new product development projects in the 1980s, Scrum has become recognized as one of the best project management frameworks for handling rapidly changing or evolving projects. Especially useful on projects with lots of technology or requirements uncertainty, Scrum is a proven, scalable agile process for managing software projects. Through lecture, discussion and exercises, this fast–paced Mike Cohn’s tutorial covers the basics of what you need to know to get started with Scrum. You will learn about all key aspects of Scrum including product and sprint backlog, the sprint planning meeting, the sprint review, conducting a sprint retrospective, activities that occur during sprints, measuring and monitoring progress, and scaling Scrum to work with large and distributed teams. Also covered are the roles and responsibilities of the ScrumMaster, the product owner, and the Scrum team.This session will be equally suited for managers, programmers, testers, product managers and anyone else interested in improving product delivery.

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