Keynote presentation from AgileChina 2015. An appeal to 1) understand the why behind practices and processes, and 2) remember the people while leading change.
Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies - Nicki WattOpenCredo
For many businesses looking to embrace modern business practices, deliver and scale faster, adopting a Cloud Native mindset and architecture makes sense. In this talk Nicki Watt, from OpenCredo, will explore the realities of making that journey for a number of clients. Far from being a smooth journey to the promised land, during this talk you will also learn about the numerous detours, bumps and challenges encountered along the way. Microservices, Kubernetes, Success, but also Bandages and Crutches; This talk is for you if you want to gain some pragmatic insight into what is entailed with such endeavours.
DevOpsDaysRiga 2018: Jan de Vries - Realising the power of antifragility is l...DevOpsDays Riga
In early 2018 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the foremost thinkers of our time, published a new book: Skin in the game. About hidden asymmetries in daily life. Jan de Vries translates this book towards DevOps, as he did before with Taleb’s book Antifragile. It explains why some concepts work and others don’t. It’s like turning on the light in your DevOps environment. And it helps you to improve your (IT) organisation in the right direction. This talk contains practical tips and tricks that can be applied instantly.
In this talk, we'll go from finding a need for navbar support in ember-bootstrap to writing it. Along the way, we'll address technical challenges like multi-level action passing and making component state visible through component closures. By the end, we'll see how relentlessly pursuing usage ergonomics leads to a clean solution with contextual components and the testing questions that carries with it.
Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies - Nicki WattOpenCredo
For many businesses looking to embrace modern business practices, deliver and scale faster, adopting a Cloud Native mindset and architecture makes sense. In this talk Nicki Watt, from OpenCredo, will explore the realities of making that journey for a number of clients. Far from being a smooth journey to the promised land, during this talk you will also learn about the numerous detours, bumps and challenges encountered along the way. Microservices, Kubernetes, Success, but also Bandages and Crutches; This talk is for you if you want to gain some pragmatic insight into what is entailed with such endeavours.
DevOpsDaysRiga 2018: Jan de Vries - Realising the power of antifragility is l...DevOpsDays Riga
In early 2018 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the foremost thinkers of our time, published a new book: Skin in the game. About hidden asymmetries in daily life. Jan de Vries translates this book towards DevOps, as he did before with Taleb’s book Antifragile. It explains why some concepts work and others don’t. It’s like turning on the light in your DevOps environment. And it helps you to improve your (IT) organisation in the right direction. This talk contains practical tips and tricks that can be applied instantly.
In this talk, we'll go from finding a need for navbar support in ember-bootstrap to writing it. Along the way, we'll address technical challenges like multi-level action passing and making component state visible through component closures. By the end, we'll see how relentlessly pursuing usage ergonomics leads to a clean solution with contextual components and the testing questions that carries with it.
2016 V. L. Deuso Community Relations, Event and Marketing SpecialistVirginia Deuso
As a motivated professional I have a strong background in internal and external communications and marketing, as well as content-specific writing for a website, video, and print marketing. My career is based on exceptional relationship building skills in combination with advanced communication proficiencies.
Overcome the 6 Antipatterns of Agile AdoptionAgile Velocity
Presented at Global Scrum Gathering Orlando 2016
Because of benefits like predictability, better quality of products, and faster delivery, many companies have adopted or in the process of adopting Agile. However, there are challenges.
David Hawks, CST and Agile Evangelist, explains the common antipatterns of Agile adoption.
Goto Chicago; Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies...OpenCredo
Many businesses want to embrace modern business practices by delivering projects quickly and scaling faster. For this, adopting a Cloud Native mindset and architecture makes sense but is not a simple magic carpet ride.
In this talk, Nicki Watt from OpenCredo will share the realities of making that journey for a number of clients. Far from being a smooth journey to the promised land, you will learn about the numerous detours, bumps and challenges encountered along the way.
Microservices, Kubernetes, Success, but also Bandages and Crutches; This talk is for you if you want to gain some pragmatic insight into what is entailed with such endeavors.
Case Study: Western Union Takes Grass Roots Approach to Achieve DevOps Transf...CA Technologies
Western Union, a 160 year old company that, at times, can look more like a dinosaur than a unicorn, recognized the need to modernize its software delivery practices. The Western Union shared-service Enterprise IT Operations team took a grass roots approach, starting small and measurable. The team used deployment automation as a foundational technology and as a lever to open the door for broader conversations with its dev partners. This session details how Western Union is building partnerships and driving outside-the-box thinking to execute to a DevOps vision. Its journey is not complete, but you will hear about the marked results thus far and how Western Union is gaining momentum with internal partners.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Building an Effective Pitch OR "hey buddy, can you spare a $100 million? "MaRS Discovery District
How to convince successful financiers to give you millions of dollars in a project doomed to fail!
Speaker: James Smith, VP Healthcare and Cleantech Group
The Equicom Group covers all the essentials of building and delivering an effective pitch to help you find financing for your entrepreneurial venture.
Part of the CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 Lecture series: http://www.marsdd.com/events/details.html?uuid=2041ae14-7e1f-4a88-a477-da0b4dc51f85
Delivered January 30, 2018 at Mobile Tea Boston. This is an updated version of the presentation from June 2017.
Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. And Mobile? Yup. Every major technology company and a host of not so major ones are doing things with AI. With cheap, plentiful computing power and a growing number of open source and commercial offerings, applications that used to be the stuff of science fiction are available today from your desktop, phone, and watch. Let’s talk about what’s happening and how it affects how we think about mobile development.
2016 V. L. Deuso Community Relations, Event and Marketing SpecialistVirginia Deuso
As a motivated professional I have a strong background in internal and external communications and marketing, as well as content-specific writing for a website, video, and print marketing. My career is based on exceptional relationship building skills in combination with advanced communication proficiencies.
Overcome the 6 Antipatterns of Agile AdoptionAgile Velocity
Presented at Global Scrum Gathering Orlando 2016
Because of benefits like predictability, better quality of products, and faster delivery, many companies have adopted or in the process of adopting Agile. However, there are challenges.
David Hawks, CST and Agile Evangelist, explains the common antipatterns of Agile adoption.
Goto Chicago; Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies...OpenCredo
Many businesses want to embrace modern business practices by delivering projects quickly and scaling faster. For this, adopting a Cloud Native mindset and architecture makes sense but is not a simple magic carpet ride.
In this talk, Nicki Watt from OpenCredo will share the realities of making that journey for a number of clients. Far from being a smooth journey to the promised land, you will learn about the numerous detours, bumps and challenges encountered along the way.
Microservices, Kubernetes, Success, but also Bandages and Crutches; This talk is for you if you want to gain some pragmatic insight into what is entailed with such endeavors.
Case Study: Western Union Takes Grass Roots Approach to Achieve DevOps Transf...CA Technologies
Western Union, a 160 year old company that, at times, can look more like a dinosaur than a unicorn, recognized the need to modernize its software delivery practices. The Western Union shared-service Enterprise IT Operations team took a grass roots approach, starting small and measurable. The team used deployment automation as a foundational technology and as a lever to open the door for broader conversations with its dev partners. This session details how Western Union is building partnerships and driving outside-the-box thinking to execute to a DevOps vision. Its journey is not complete, but you will hear about the marked results thus far and how Western Union is gaining momentum with internal partners.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Building an Effective Pitch OR "hey buddy, can you spare a $100 million? "MaRS Discovery District
How to convince successful financiers to give you millions of dollars in a project doomed to fail!
Speaker: James Smith, VP Healthcare and Cleantech Group
The Equicom Group covers all the essentials of building and delivering an effective pitch to help you find financing for your entrepreneurial venture.
Part of the CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 Lecture series: http://www.marsdd.com/events/details.html?uuid=2041ae14-7e1f-4a88-a477-da0b4dc51f85
Delivered January 30, 2018 at Mobile Tea Boston. This is an updated version of the presentation from June 2017.
Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. And Mobile? Yup. Every major technology company and a host of not so major ones are doing things with AI. With cheap, plentiful computing power and a growing number of open source and commercial offerings, applications that used to be the stuff of science fiction are available today from your desktop, phone, and watch. Let’s talk about what’s happening and how it affects how we think about mobile development.
Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. And Mobile? Yup. Every major technology company and a host of not so major ones are doing things with AI. With cheap, plentiful computing power and a growing number of open source and commercial offerings, applications that used to be the stuff of science fiction are available today from your desktop, phone, and watch. Let’s talk about what’s happening and how it affects how we think about mobile development.
Delivered at the Agile Alliance Technical Conferenc 2017 in Boston on April 21, 2017.
Create software with Zero Bugs! Is that your reality? Why or why not?
We've heard the mantra, an extension of the Zero Defects movement introduced in manufacturing in the 60s. Is it achievable? How do you achieve it? What does it mean? What challenges do you run into? Are they technical, people, or organizational issues? All of the above? The reasons probably go deeper than you realize.
This talk will look at all aspects of what it takes to adopt and deliver on a Zero Bugs promise. We'll cover a wide range of technical approaches, along with some opinions on their effectiveness and applicability. We'll talk about the people issues from whether people believe it's possible to overcoming the obstacles in applying it. Finally, we'll talk about some of the organizational, habitual, and structural issues that complicate its pursuit.
Have you ever thought, “I wish it was easier to change JavaScript code programmatically?” Maybe you wanted to write or edit a configuration block in source code. Perhaps you wanted to generate customized algorithmic code. For many, this kind of thing seems inaccessible.
The tools exist, though. In this talk, Stephen Vance will look at how he has used recast and esprima to edit and rewrite JavaScript code, leaving the untouched code completely intact, including whitespace and comments. At the end, you should have enough knowledge to be dangerous and start to write the next automatic programming, AI, take-over-the-world, self-improving software.
Overview of how to authenticate an Ember app against GitHub using ember-simple-auth and torii. Generally applicable to the overall case of OAuth2 authorization code grant flow.
Delivered at Boston Ember.js on March 9, 2017 along with a hands-on workshop. The workshop is based on the guide available at the ember-simple-auth repo.
Delivered at the Boston DevOps Meetup, February 15, 2017.
In a small company, everyone does everything, so understanding roles is more about knowing who does what at any moment. As organizations grow, specialization creeps in, hierarchies develop, and hierarchies beget managers.
Too often, though, everyone assumes they know what a manager does. They don't discuss it, plan it, or make sure that the result serves all participants adequately. Usually, it's the care and cultivation of people that gets short changed in the compromise. This presentation breaks down the roles that managers fill so you can craft the position intentionally and make sure you take care of your people as your company grows.
These are the slides from the Agile Estimation Workshop I gave at AgileChina 2015. The morning session covered opinion-based techniques. The afternoon covered empirical techniques based on cycle time, Little's Law, and Monte Carlo simulation.
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Org Design is a core skill to be mastered by management for any successful org change.
Org Topologies™ in its essence is a two-dimensional space with 16 distinctive boxes - atomic organizational archetypes. That space helps you to plot your current operating model by positioning individuals, departments, and teams on the map. This will give a profound understanding of the performance of your value-creating organizational ecosystem.
Enriching engagement with ethical review processesstrikingabalance
New ethics review processes at the University of Bath. Presented at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity by Filipa Vance, Head of Research Governance and Compliance at the University of Bath. June 2024, Athens
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
The Team Member and Guest Experience - Lead and Take Care of your restaurant team. They are the people closest to and delivering Hospitality to your paying Guests!
Make the call, and we can assist you.
408-784-7371
Foodservice Consulting + Design
Specific ServPoints should be tailored for restaurants in all food service segments. Your ServPoints should be the centerpiece of brand delivery training (guest service) and align with your brand position and marketing initiatives, especially in high-labor-cost conditions.
408-784-7371
Foodservice Consulting + Design
Employment PracticesRegulation and Multinational CorporationsRoopaTemkar
Employment PracticesRegulation and Multinational Corporations
Strategic decision making within MNCs constrained or determined by the implementation of laws and codes of practice and by pressure from political actors. Managers in MNCs have to make choices that are shaped by gvmt. intervention and the local economy.
Comparing Stability and Sustainability in Agile SystemsRob Healy
Copy of the presentation given at XP2024 based on a research paper.
In this paper we explain wat overwork is and the physical and mental health risks associated with it.
We then explore how overwork relates to system stability and inventory.
Finally there is a call to action for Team Leads / Scrum Masters / Managers to measure and monitor excess work for individual teams.
Integrity in leadership builds trust by ensuring consistency between words an...Ram V Chary
Integrity in leadership builds trust by ensuring consistency between words and actions, making leaders reliable and credible. It also ensures ethical decision-making, which fosters a positive organizational culture and promotes long-term success. #RamVChary
6. Change
Is
Hard
变化是困难的
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2015,
Stephen
Vance
Understand
Deeply
6
7. Who
Am
I?
我是谁?
• Pre-‐Manifesto
Agilist
• Director
of
Agile
at
Zipcar
• Author
• SoNware
CraNsman
• Traveler
• Senior
Pet
Care
Engineer
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
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24. EsAmaAon
估算
Ques>on
Known
As
1
How
much
can
we
do
next
sprint?
下个迭代我们能做多少?
Capacity
planning
产能计划
2
How
long
will
it
take
to
do
the
project?
做这个项目要多长?
Delivery
forecasAng
交付预测
3
How
is
our
progress?
我们的进度如何?
Progress
reporAng
进度汇报
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2015,
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Vance
Understand
Deeply
24
31. What
We
Do
To
People
对人我们都做了些什么
• Tell
them
how
to
work
• Ignore
feedback
on
teammates
• Block
their
improvement
ideas
• Assume
– They
won’t
consider
all
of
the
opAons,
or
– They
don’t
won’t
make
the
right
decisions
• Urge
them
to
“work
harder”
or
longer
• 告诉他们怎么工作
• 忽视队友的反馈
• 妨碍他们的改进想法
• 假设
– 他们不会考虑所有选项
– 他们没有成熟度或者经验
来做正确的决策
• 督促他们“更努力地工
作”或者工作更长时间
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
31
32. Project
Rescue
Story
项目急救故事
• Two
months
remaining
• Forecast
30%
likelihood
for
the
target
date
• Commibed
to
major
capital
investments
• 剩下两个月
• 预测30%的可能性赶上
目标日期
• 承诺了大量资本投资
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2015,
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Vance
Understand
Deeply
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33. Team
Discussion
团队讨论
• Cut
scope
• Add
people
• Cut
quality
• CompensaAon
– Comp
Ame
– Extra
pay
for
extra
hours
– Success
bonus
certainty
• Skip
company
meeAngs
• Move
the
date
• 缩小范围
• 加人
• 降低质量
• 补偿
– 补偿时间
– 加班工资
– 明确的成功奖金
• 改期
• 取消公司会议
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
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35. The
Elephant
In
The
Room
房间里的大象
• Work
extra
hours
– More
hours/day
– Weekends
– Dinners
at
the
office
– Work
from
home
to
cut
commute
Ame
• 工作更长时间
– 每天工作更多小时
– 周末
– 在办公室用餐
– 在家工作以减少交通时
间
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2015,
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Vance
Understand
Deeply
35
37. Team
Responses
to
Deadlines
团队对死限的反应
• Acceptance
• Grumbling
• Cugng
scope
• Cugng
quality
• Working
extra
hours
• Hiding
deviaAon
from
plan
• Delivery
without
concern
for
outcomes
• 接受
• 牢骚
• 缩小范围
• 降低质量
• 工作更长时间
• 隐藏和计划的偏差
• 不考虑结果的交付
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2015,
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Vance
Understand
Deeply
37
38. “We
usually
manage
by
dates
when
we
don’t
know
how
to
manage
by
what’s
truly
important”
Me
“当我们不知道如何管理真正重要的事情时,
我们通常就会去管理日期”-我
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2015,
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Vance
Understand
Deeply
38
40. Other
Reasons
for
Deadlines
死限的其它原因
“I
need
to
feel
in
control,
and
a
deadline
helps
me
with
that.”
“I
set
deadlines
to
insAll
a
sense
of
urgency
that
I
don’t
trust
will
be
there
otherwise.”
“I
set
a
date
because
the
teams
couldn’t
or
wouldn’t
tell
me
when
they
thought
it
would
be
done.”
“我需要有掌控感,死限对
此有帮助”
“我设置死限来注入紧迫感,
如果没有死限我不相信会有
同样的紧迫感”
“我设置日期是因为团队不
能或不会告诉我什么时候他
们觉得会做完”
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2015,
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Vance
Understand
Deeply
40
41. SoluAons
解决方案
• Promote
visibility
• Provide
empirically
based
forecasts
• Show
progress
through
regular
demos
• Empathize
• 提倡可见性
• 提供经验型的预测
• 通过定期的展示来显
示进度
• 共情
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2015,
Stephen
Vance
Understand
Deeply
41
43. Who
Should
You
Talk
To?
你该跟谁去说?
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2015,
Stephen
Vance
Understand
Deeply
43
44. Responsibility
Matrix
责任矩阵
Stakeholder
Responsible
Approve
Support
Inform
Consult
Team
X
Sponsor
X
Architecture
Significant
architecture
decisions
X
X
Billing
X
MarkeAng
X
Sales
X
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Deeply
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45. CommunicaAon
Plan
交流计划
• Part
of
the
team
working
agreement
• What
media?
• Who?
• How
oNen?
• 部分的团队工作约定
• 什么渠道?
• 谁?
• 多频繁?
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2015,
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Vance
Understand
Deeply
45
46. Risk
Log
风险记录
Risk
Resolver
Comments
Resolu>on
Status
Partner
company
not
Agile
Tech
Lead
Difficulty
matching
release
cadence
Open
WaiAng
for
branding
MarkeAng
Impacts
web
site
copy
and
images
Open
Hardware
delivery
Ops
Vendor
uncertain
about
deliver
date
Delivered
Closed
Not
enough
sAcky
notes
Scrum
Master
Who
can
do
Agile
without
sAcky
notes?
Order
placed
Open
Caffeine
shortage
Scrum
Master
Team
can’t
work
without
coffee
Bought
espresso
machine
Closed
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
46
47. More
Of
The
Rescue
更多急救项目的做法
• 24
risks
– 6
major
risks
• Significant
luck
• 24项风险
– 6项重大的
• 不少的运气
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
47
50. Agile
Manifesto
On
Hand-‐Offs
敏捷宣言中关于移交
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2015,
Stephen
Vance
Understand
Deeply
50
51. The
Language
of
Hand-‐offs
移交的语言
“I
did
something
for
the
team”
“I
did
something
with
the
team”
“我为团队做了某件事”
“我和团队做了某件事”
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
51
53. Product
Owners
and
Story
CreaAon
产品负责人和故事创建
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
53
54. Three
Amigos
三架马车
• Pre-‐refinement
– Product
Owner
– Developer
– Tester
• Refinement
– EnAre
team
• 梳理前
– PO
– 开发
– 测试
• 梳理
– 整个团队
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
54
55. Efficiency
and
Waste
效率和浪费
• Time
spent
recognizing
inappropriate
stories
• Story
rewriAng
• The
whole
team
needs
to
understand
the
work
anyway
• Lean
thinking
• Cost
of
delay
• 花在识别不合适故事
上的时间
• 故事重写
• 整个团队总是需要理
解工作的
• 精益思考
• 延迟成本
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Deeply
55
56. The
Right
Agtude
正确的态度
• Forget
roles
and
Atles
• Focus
on
skills
and
perspecAves
• 忘记角色和岗位
• 关注技能和视角
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Vance
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Deeply
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58. QuesAon
Roles
质疑角色
Do
your
job
descripAons
guide
you
or
define
you?
Do
you
recognize
your
assumpAons
and
habits
from
a
different
context?
你的工作描述是指导你
还是限制你?
你意识到来自不同上下
文的假设和习惯吗?
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2015,
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Vance
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Deeply
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