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	Using Non-Violent Communication Skills for Managing Team Conflict[presentation] Slideshow “Going agile” has transformed thousands of workplaces into groups of self-directed teams, more engaged and increasingly more productive. Knowledge workers report increased job satisfaction, strong team identity, and camaraderie. One of the secrets of high performing teams is their ability...	Pat Arcady, FreeStanding Agility
	Six Impossible Things before Breakfast[presentation] Slideshow Recently we’ve been seeing a lot of things that just don’t happen in real life. A managing director at Bank of America abandons decades of organizational “best practices” and recreates his organization by letting people organize their own teams. And, if that weren’t unusual enough, the...	Dan North, Dan North & Associates, Ltd. & Kyle Thomson, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
	Power and Empowerment: Understanding the Principles[presentation] Slideshow Managers want teams to be empowered but often don’t want to give up their decision-making authority. Teams want to be empowered but may not know how to act on the power they already have. Executives want to drive engagement and action but see only half-hearted compliance.	Esther Derby, Esther Derby Associates Inc.
	A Mind-Blowing Exploration on How to Make Better Decisions[presentation] Slideshow Have you ever watched a medical drama with scenes featuring doctors making split second, life-or-death decisions? As software professional, there may be less at stake when it comes to your decisions, yet you often need to act under time pressure, limited information, and conditions of...	Iain McCowatt, Barclays
	Demystifying the Role of Product Owner[presentation] Slideshow Have you ever wondered what makes a good Product Owner? It’s a broad and deep role that is often filled with a hodgepodge of differently skilled individuals. Many organizations struggle to understand its importance as they scale their agile transformations. What about exceptional...	Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
	Measure Customer and Business Feedback to Drive Improvement[presentation] Slideshow Companies often go to great lengths to collect metrics. However, even the most rigorously collected data tends to be ignored, despite the findings and potential for improving practices. Today, one metric that cannot be ignored is customer satisfaction. Customers are more than willing to...	Paul Fratellone, uTest
	Lean Startup Tools for Scrum Product Owners[presentation] Slideshow In just a few years, the Lean Startup movement has gained influence by promoting a powerful but simple agile product management toolset—one that complements agile software development approaches such as Scrum and kanban. Arlen Bankston explores the tools and techniques product...	Arlen Bankston, LitheSpeed
	I Thought YOU Were Flying the Plane: Preventing Projects from Falling Out of the Sky[presentation] Slideshow One of the most cherished concepts of the Agile Manifesto is valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Within this idea is the implicit assumption that individuals innately know how to interact. Dramatic lessons from aviation suggest otherwise. During the mid-1960s the...	Steve Adolph, WSA Consulting
	Continuous Automated Regression Testing to the Rescue[presentation] Slideshow A major concern when developing new software features is that another part of the code will be affected in unexpected ways. With a typical development processes, testers often do not run a full set of product regression tests until late in the release when it is much more costly to fix...	Brenda Kise, Proto Labs Inc.
	Oh, WASP! Security Essentials for Web Apps[presentation] Slideshow The past few years have seen a rapid increase in business efficiency through Web-based applications. Unfortunately, a dramatic increase in the number of web application vulnerabilities has followed. Insecure web applications can be disastrous for mission critical businesses and users'...	Benny Paul, Cognizant Technology Solutions
	Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar Some More[presentation] Slideshow History repeats itself as people once again become addicted to process. Today’s difficult problems call for a renaissance of agility, drawing on past success as we invent the future. Real value lies in intentional and contextual selection of agile tools instead of the noise associated with...	David Hussman, DevJam
	Validating Assumptions: From Unknown to Known[presentation] Slideshow Although many organizations are successfully using agile practices to develop higher quality, customer-satisfying solutions faster and cheaper, an increasing number of companies are using the same practices to develop the wrong solutions—faster and with a higher level of quality, too.	Ade Shokoya, AgileTV
	Transforming to Enterprise Agility: A Leadership Practicum[presentation] Slideshow The pace of innovation, often hastened by agile software development, has begun to pull entire organizations into the desire and need for more agility. Phillip Cave shares his experiences transforming organizational behavior at the department and enterprise level.	Phillip Cave , SolutionsIQ
	Adopt Before You Adapt: Learning Principles through Practice[presentation] Slideshow Although agile principles sound simple, adopting agile is often extremely difficult. Some teams adopting agile start by making changes and tweaks to prescribed processes—bad! Steve Berczuk explains how following the recommended practices of your chosen agile method for a time will help...	Steve Berczuk, Fitbit Inc.
	Sprinkle on Just Enough Process[presentation] How do you know if you have too much process, too little, or just the right amount? If you ignore process completely, unpredictability and chaos can follow. If you define the process to the nth degree and follow it religiously, the work grinds to a halt. Janet Gregory shares her...	Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.

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