Videos tagged with Leadership

Google Tech Talk January 18, 2011 Presented by Dave Logan. ABSTRACT Every organization and company is a tribe, or a network of tribes-groups of 20 to 150 people that form naturally, in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of them. In this highly interactive session, Dave Logan shows executives how to upgrade their organization one tribe at a time. The result is unprecedented im...

Google I/O 2010 - How to lose friends and alienate people: The joys of engineering leadership Tech TalksBrian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman Are you considered the 'point' person for your team? Do you have sweaty palms, headaches, and a calendar full of meetings? You may have an affliction called 'manager'. This is treatable through careful analysis and therapy. We'll examine how you may h...

Google I/O 2010 - How to lose friends and alienate people: The joys of engineering leadership Tech TalksBrian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman Are you considered the 'point' person for your team? Do you have sweaty palms, headaches, and a calendar full of meetings? You may have an affliction called 'manager'. This is treatable through careful analysis and therapy. We'll examine how you may h...

Summary Brian and dave discuss what it might mean to be a true craftsman and why the idea of craft has become so popular of late. Other issues discussed include the question of why craft seems to be focused almost exclusively on programming and why everyone does not aspire to be a craftsman? Programming as performance art, programs as literary artifacts, and code "habitability" round out the di...

Summary Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the 'next level' and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile. Bio Robin Dymond is an inter...

Summary Pollyanna Pixton tells us that within a culture of trust leaders must stand back and if they don't then they are hampering and restricting the productivity and the creativity and the innovation of teams. She discusses how leaders can foster a culture of trust and what they must do to get the most out of Agile teams. Bio Pollyanna developed the models for Collaboration and Collaborative ...

Summary During QCon San Francisco 2008, InfoQ and BayAPLN, a local group of Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), organized a panel comprised of Agile experts which answered questions from the audience. The panelists were: David Chilcott, Moderator, Polyanna Pixton, David Hussman, Sue Mckinney, Pat Reed. Bio The Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) is a 501(c)6 non profit organization tha...

Summary In this interview made by Deborah Hartmann during Agile 2008, Diana Larsen and Jim Shore talk about patterns observed in CTOs' activity. CTOs emerge as real people caring for other people in their organization, and are put under a lot of pressure and constraints. Bio Diana co-authored "Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!" with Esther Derby. She is Current Chair of t...

Summary In this interview made by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, Linda Rising talks about the book "Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas" and offers examples of how the patterns presented in the book can ease the stress of Agile adoption. Bio Linda Rising's background includes university teaching and industry work in telecommunications, avionics, and strategic we...

Summary In this presentation filmed during Agile 2007, Mike Cohn talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging in a previously tightly controlled environment. Bio Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories...