Mattias Skarin has a post on Agile for support and operations in 5 min. A bit thin on information, but it has some interesting concepts like kanban boards and visualization of cycle time.
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JavaZone 2008 videos online
It’s been a little while since they were put online, but if you havn’t seen it check it out. These are my recommendations:
- Guerrilla SOA with Jim Webber: Great talk that removes the bullshit from SOA.
- Qi4j – a new approach to old problems with Rickard Öberg: A mind boggling way to look at solving our problems.
- The Double Paradox of Lean Software Development with Mary Poppendieck: Great agile theory as always by Mary.
- Clean Code III: Functions with Robert C. Martin: We need clean code, and we should all know this stuff. Time to learn the basics. Great talk.
- Design Sense – Cultivating Deep Software Design Skill by Michael Feathers: Sort of clean code concepts again. His visualization of classes is interesting, and would be nice to have.
- Objects of Desire with Kevlin Henney: More clean code and basic OO. Time to learn this. 🙂
Check out the rest of the program for more great talks. These were my favourites from the ones I have seen. Should be many more good ones to discover there.
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Learning Scrum
Geoff Watts was in Oslo a while back giving a talk on how British Telecom introduced Scrum to the organisation. Important elements in his talk was how to motivate, and how to let experience gained in some teams propagate to other teams. To summarize in short it was by stating the goal instead of how to do it (deliver something every 90 days), and have experienced coaches come in and lecture but also participate in the new teams that are just started and trying to find their way.
Similar and more specific ideas can be found in the slides Jeff Sutherland did at Google. I would love to hear the talk, but the slides gives a lot of interesting information on how they introduce new teams to Scrum at MySpace. Some of it seems a bit harsh, but I do actually believe some teams needs a painful bootstrap to get into it.