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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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Agile 2009 Session Info Presenter: Mary Poppendieck Mary is well known as a lean software engineering leader, but gave this session talking about the idea of deliberate practice and our field. She referenced studies by Anders Ericsson about what it takes to be truly world class at something (she particularly focused on a juvenile music […]
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Liquidity in Information Work
Agile 2009 Session Info Presenter: David Anderson in an "open jam" session. Liquidity is the ability to easily turn one asset into another (not just money!). Anderson’s idea on liquidity in a software organization relates to the skills of the people on the team and how we assign them to roles/tasks. Let’s say we have […]
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New Approaches to Risk Management
— I was lucky enough to attend the 2009 Agile conference. This post is one in a series of session reports from it. Presenter: David Anderson David framed this session with the idea that much of the stated value of Agile is in managing risk. Wanting to dig deeper, he tried to find a good […]
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Kanban as a change management tool
I am beginning to better understand how effective Kanban can be as a change management tool. Any kind of change within an organization is often preceded by fear and worry which lead to resistance. People aren’t sure what’s going to happen, how it’s going to affect the company, or how it’s going to affect them […]
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Agile 2009 Presentation and Materials
I have uploaded both my IEEE submission and presentation. Both are available for download. Please let me know any thoughts and/or comments you may have regarding them.
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