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Original Broadcast Date : Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Time: 8:30 AM PT / 10:30 AM CT / 11:30 AM ET
Speakers:
Geoff Bellman, GMB Associates, Ltd.
What allows some teams to deliver results that far exceed expectations? How do these groups differ from most others? What can group members and leaders do to enable these extraordinary experiences? Geoff Bellman, along with his partner Kathleen Ryan, spent four years diving deeply into self-declared fantastic teams. They interviewed people from sixty great teams, added their own experience as managers and consultants, and came to ground-breaking conclusions documented in their book, Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results. Geoff presents their discoveries about what makes for exceptional performance. Sharing the eight indicators that his study shows are key, Geoff offers up the primary needs people fulfill by interacting in groups and suggests ways of meeting those needs within work teams. See how the primary feelings reported by highly successful teams match—or do not match—the feelings you have for your team. Enhance your understanding of the most successful team experiences you’ve had and take back ideas to improve your current and future team experiences.
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Original Broadcast Date : Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Time: 10:15 AM PT / 12:15 PM CT / 1:15 PM ET
Speakers:
Martin Fowler, ThoughtWorks
Over the past decade or so we've seen important new ideas added to the mix of software design practices to help us produce better software. Design Patterns help us capture the design solutions and reveal a rationale for using them. Refactoring allows us to improve system design after the code is written. Agile methods—and in particular, Extreme Programming—provide highly iterative and evolutionary development methods that are particularly well suited to fast changing requirements and rapidly evolving hardware and technology environments. Martin Fowler—a leading voice in understanding, honing, practicing, and promoting these approaches—offers up a suite of short talks on his recent thinking about how these design practices have changed software development. Join Martin to explore what’s new on the horizon to support the design and development of new, more complex, interconnected systems than the world has ever known.
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Original Broadcast Date : Wednesday, June 8, 2011 
Duration: 11:30 AM PT / 1:30 PM CT / 2:30 PM ET
Speakers:
Jeffrey Fredrick, Technical Evangelist, Urbancode, Inc.
Eric Minick, Lead Consultant, Urbancode, Inc.
In good economic times teams attempt bold experiments that promise to take them to new heights of productivity. In lean times like these few have the appetite for such speculative ventures. Any new investment needs to address an immediate pain and show immediate payback. But the pace of demands has not slowed, and the ever increasing need to do more continues. For build and release teams the demands come from all directions. The shorter cycle times of Agile means more builds, more deployments and more releases. The adoption of SOA means more complexity, more elements to juggle. The move to global round-the-clock 24-hr development means more teams to service and less downtime. And in this economy adding headcount is likely not an option, instead you’re told to get Lean and Mean. But how do you get to Lean and Mean without being stretched too thin?
This need to keep costs fixed while adding capacity makes improving efficiency key. Instead of attempting a whole scale change to how you develop software the focus is on reducing waste, allowing you to deliver more in the same time and for the same cost. Build and deployment automation offer fertile ground for dramatic productivity gains that will improve the efficiency of the entire team.
Join us in this webinar to learn how to develop and implement your own program for improving efficiency through build and deployment automation:
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learn about the dramatic gains other organizations have achieved through build and deployment automation;
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discover investigation tools for spotlighting inefficiency in the build and release cycle; and
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hear about common build and deployment productivity blockers and the best practices for removing them.
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Original Broadcast Date : Wednesday, June 8, 2011  
Duration: 12:30 AM PT / 2:30 PM CT / 3:30 PM ET
Speakers:
Bob Gower, ScrumMaster & Agile Coach, Rally Software
Craig Langenfeld, Product Ambassador, Rally Software
Geoffrey Bourne, SVP, Major NYC Financial Institution
User Stories, designed to keep teams laser-focused on customer needs, serve as THE driving force behind delivering valuable, high quality features, fast.
Key Takeaways:
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Examples of breaking down stories while keeping the focus on customer value
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The way to write acceptance criteria and define "done."
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The differences between stories and tasks
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Suggestions for improving size estimates
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How user stories relate to the product roadmap
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Lessons learned from your peers
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Original Broadcast Date : Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Time: 1:30 PM PT / 3:30 PM CT / 4:30 PM ET
Speakers:
Chris Lucca, Agile Evangelist, AccuRev
As development organizations introduce or seek to expand adoption of Agile methods, they sometimes find unexpected roadblocks that hinder success. While the reasons for these challenges
can differ, in many cases the limitations of the team’s SCM tool become an obstacle to truly capitalizing on Agile’s benefits.
Join AccuRev’s Chris Lucca, Agile Evangelist, for an in-depth discussion of:
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The top challenges that some organizations face as they introduce or scale Agile
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How you can avoid or overcome these obstacles
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The role that your SCM tool plays in moving toward Agile methods
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The key SCM attributes that can make versus break your transition to Agile
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Original Broadcast Date : Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Time: 2:30 PM PT / 4:30 PM CT / 5:30 PM ET
Speakers:
Randy DeFauw, Technical Marketing Manager, Perforce
In this presentation, learn how to use Perforce to help implement an Agile workflow in teams across the enterprise. Common challenges that occur when deploying Agile across large teams and projects are discussed in detail, along with solutions based on Perforce’s powerful branching model and new streams feature.
The presentation also includes a discussion of how Perforce’s version control tools improve collaboration and transparency. Perforce puts powerful tools in the developer’s hands in IDEs like Eclipse, and integrates with leading continuous integration, project management, and code review tools to round out the Agile tool set.
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Build scalable agile processes with Perforce's version management system.
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Increase productivity integrating Perforce with leading agile workflow tools.
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Achieve greater transparency using Perforce's fast branching and visualization tools.
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