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	Building Mob Programming Teams Using Lego® Serious Play® Slideshow In recent years the idea of Mob Programming has begun to attract the attention of those looking for new ways to take advantage of the genius that can be found in a focused, cross-functional, and unified agile team. But how, in practice, do these teams actually work? Paul Wynia, a Lego®...	Paul Wynia
	The Power of an Agile Mindset Slideshow Linda Rising, co-author of Fearless Change and the recently published More Fearless Change, has wondered for some time whether much of Agile's success has been the result of the placebo effect—that is, good things happened because we believed they would. The placebo effect is a startling...	Linda Rising
	Testing in a Super-Agile Software Development Environment Slideshow Channel 4 broadcasting company in Finland provides live streams of sporting events on the Internet (Ruutu.fi). The software development is done by agile principles but even more straightforward and quicker than normal agile projects. Tomi Kaleva says they have changed the entire...	Tomi Kaleva
	Your User Stories Are Too Big: Yes, They Are! Slideshow When a user story is too big, it is harder to understand, estimate, and implement successfully. Some teams break the “business story” into “technical stories” but this generally doesn’t help because most or all of the technical stories need to be completed before there is anything...	Chris Sims
	Experiments: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Slideshow Through the years, Linda Rising has given presentations about the use of stories instead of science in the industry, so in this session she has decided to be more helpful and talk about experiments. There's an increasing emphasis on experiments as a part of being more innovative but...	Linda Rising
	Facilitation Techniques for Agile Meetings and Ceremonies Slideshow Facilitation is the art of leading people through processes toward agreed-upon outcomes in a manner that encourages participation, ownership, and creativity from all involved. So how do you take this definition and turn it into facilitating powerful meetings? Most agile practitioners can...	Darrin London
	From Unclear and Unrealistic Requirements to Achievable User Stories Slideshow "What do you want the system to do?" can be a loaded question for agile teams. Ideally, the product owner gives you a product backlog with fully groomed user stories prioritized by business value, ready for team discussion and estimation. Instead, you may have the “big picture” product...	Jamie Lynn Cooke
	Apply Phil Jackson’s Coaching Principles to Build Better Agile Teams Slideshow Often referred to as the “Zen Master” for his unorthodox coaching style, professional basketball coach Phil Jackson won more professional sports championships than any other coach in history. Jackson led the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers to a total of eleven NBA championships, but...	Dion Stewart
	Managing a Software Engineering Team Slideshow You’re a senior engineer who decides to switch to management for experience in leading a team. How is your work going to change? What challenges are you going to face? How are you going to keep up with new technologies? Are people reporting to you going to see you as a leader and follow you?	Sebastiano Armeli
	How to Do Kick-Ass Software Development Slideshow Software development is hard― keeping developers, testers, designers, product managers and other stakeholders in sync and working on the right things at the right time. Building the systems that customers care about and delivering high-quality code fast are challenges every development...	Sven Peters

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