Videos tagged with Communication

Summary Paul Downey discusses the risks of premature standardisation, unnatural constraints, partial implementations and open extensions, how to avoid cloud computing lock-in, formal activities versus lightweight open processes as exemplified by open source, Microformats, OpenID, OAuth and other Web conventions being ratified through open, lightweight, continuous agreement. Bio Paul is a member...

Summary Jake Sorofman talks on how to glue together the application development world and the business operations one in an automated, virtualized and cloud computing environment where everything moves faster than ever. Bio Jake Sorofman is Vice President of Marketing at rPath. He held several other leadership positions in the past: SVP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, the...

Summary Bob Frankston offers a vision of the Internet that focuses on communication and connection uninhibited by artificial barriers like carrier exclusivity, arbitrary differences in protocols, and vendor constraints. He uses stories as his organizing and presentational metaphor to share a vision of what could be, if we had free reign to follow our imagination. Bio Bob Frankston is a graduate...

Summary Kent Beck takes a look at trends and how they affect us. Communication, simplification, unintended consequences, disappearing models, and new approaches of design and tests are examined. Kent takes diverse set of issues that are changing in our world and asks "why are we doing this?" Bio Kent Beck is widely recognized as the father of eXtreme Programming and JUnit. He is the Founder and...

Summary Software architecture has become heavily influenced in recent years by the largest software system in the world: The Web. While the foundations of much of what we understand about software architecture haven't changed, the living laboratory of the Web has created a steady and impressive stream of innovations and ideas that are just now being fully appreciated. Questions such as how to d...

Summary In this interview recorded at RubyFringe, Jay Phillips talks about VoIP, Asterisk and how his framework Adhearson makes it easy to write voice applications. Bio Jay Phillips is an innovator in the spaces where sophisticated VoIP development falls apart and where Ruby rocks. As the creator of Adhearsion and its parent company Codemecca, Jay brings new possibilities to these two technolog...

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Summary In this talk filmed during Agile 2008, Jim McCarthy talks about 11 commitments team members should adhere to if they want to achieve a state of shared vision. Such a state empowers a team to reach their full potential and ultimately attain greatness. Bio Jim lead software development teams at Bell Labs, The Whitewater Group, and Microsoft. Since 1996, Jim has devoted himself to research...

Summary Scott Shaw, Director of Services at ThoughtWorks, and Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, talk about the need for a new relationship between the business department and the IT department. Studies have constantly shown that the main culprit for unsuccessful projects lies in miscommunication between the business people and the IT ones. Bio Scott Shaw is a manager and technolog...

Summary In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Martin Fowler and Dan North talk about the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users. Closing this gap is extremely important in order to create successful software. Bio Martin Fowler is one of our industry's most well known thought leaders having had an influence in the adoption of OO, refactoring, ...