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Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty

kpumuk — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:03:00 GMT

Summary
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.

Bio
Todd Little (tlittle@lgc.com) is Senior Development Manager for Landmark Graphics, with 25 years' software experience in quality, engineering, consulting, project management and general management. Todd is a member of the Agile Alliance board, IEEE, Society of Petroleum Engineers and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

About the conference
The Agile Alliance organizes the Agile series conference, which bring together all the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.

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Making Great Decisions

scoundrel — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:39:17 GMT

Google Tech Talks
September, 24 2007

ABSTRACT

The phrase "work smarter, not harder" has been repeatedly ridiculed in Dilbert and elsewhere, not because it is a poor idea, but because it is thrown like a brick lifesaver to drowning employees. It's like telling someone to be happier, healthier, and richer. What people need is a plan for doing so.

In "Making Great Decisions" the authors show readers how to achieve their objectives. They offer a better way to look at problems so that solutions are easier to find.

Speaker: David R. Henderson, Ph.D.
David R. Henderson is an economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and a research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He was a senior economist with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers.

Speaker: Charles L. Hooper
Charles L. Hooper is President and co-founder of Objective Insights, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to providing health care companies with marketing and financial analysis to help them make informed decisions about their business opportunities.

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Bay Piggies: Programmer Productivity

scoundrel — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:01:56 GMT

Google Tech Talks
December 14, 2006

ABSTRACT

Are you fascinated by programmer productivity? Do you wish you could get more done in less time without sacrificing quality? This talk will cover a broad range of topics such as work environment, development environment, and programming language features.

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How To Recruit, Motivate, and Energize Superior Test Engineers

scoundrel — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:32:08 GMT

Google Tech Talks November 9, 2005 Jeff Feldstein ABSTRACT The expectations today are for increasingly high-quality software, requiring more sophisticated automation in testing. Test and QA teams must work more closely with development to ensure that this sophisticated automation is possible. This has lead to software engineers applying creativity, talent and expertise to not just application development, but testing as well. This transition from manual to scripting to highly engineered test automation changes the way we recruit, hire, motivate and retain great test engineering talent. The speaker uses examples of how his team at Cisco changed the way it tests over the past six years. In this class, he'll review eight points for why test is a better place for software developers than software development, and he'll show how and when to express these points to hire, motivate and retain top talent. You'll see how to inspire greater innovation and creativity in your testing processes, and how to manage and inspire test and development teams that are spread across different locations. You'll also learn the place of manual testing in the new environment.

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