Get Your Own Way

by Charl Dreyer on July 14, 2009 · 0 comments

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If you had to say to your Team that fewer than 8 out of 100 people know the difference between a search engine and a browser, would they believe you? Would it make a difference to how you built software? You know, those geeky bits that express technical prowess, but user ignorance?

“How do you get your boss to approve something, the customer service people to understand the pain a system is causing, or the folks in engineering to see things your way?” asks Seth Godin in a recent blog. [click to continue…]

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Scott Adams Works Upstairs

by Charl Dreyer on July 13, 2009 · 0 comments

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Have you ever wondered whether that guy upstairs is Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert? I certainly have. He seems to have the inside track on the same insane bureaucracy that we have to deal with every day. Like this:

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10+ Deploys Per Day At Flickr

by Charl DreyerJune 24, 2009 Agile.tv
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Communications and cooperation between development and operations isn’t optional, it’s mandatory. Flickr takes the idea of ‘release early, release often’ to an extreme: On a normal day there are 10 full deployments of the site to their servers. This session discusses why this rate of change works so well, and the culture and technology at Flickr needed to make it possible.

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Scrum Tuning: Lessons Learned from Google

by Charl DreyerJune 15, 2009 Agile.tv
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The IT boom spawned start ups that were used to running small, entrepreneurial teams. But how do you scale this in bigger organizations? Jeff Sutherland, the inventor and co-creator of Scrum uses Google Adwords’ Scrum implementation to describe some of the subtle aspects of Scrum along with suggested next steps that can help in distributing and scaling Scrum in a ‘Googley way’.

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Scrum in Under 10 Minutes

by Charl DreyerJune 5, 2009 Agile.tv
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Learn the SCRUM software development methodology in less than 10 minutes. By the end of this fast-paced video, you’ll know about burn-down charts, team roles, product backlogs, sprints, daily scrums and more.

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Scrum et al

by Charl DreyerJune 4, 2009 Agile.tv
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Scrum is an amazingly simple process that causes many changes in an organisation when it is implemented. And because it really is simple common sense, many people try to add complexity to it. So it’s beneficial to hear again the idea from first principles.

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