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Agile Takeaways from SoCal Code Camp UCSD June 28th, 2014
SoCal Code Camp Takeaways 2014

Agile Takeaways from SoCal Code Camp UCSD June 28th, 2014

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9 years ago
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SoCal Code Camp is a free event held every year for software professionals to meet, network and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all disciplines, platforms and programming languages band together to bring content to the community. The Camp takes place over two days with 100+ learning sessions to choose from. As a Scrum Product Owner, I attended sessions focused primarily on Agile tools and techniques. The following is a list of some of the stand-out takeaways from the event: The two most important metrics to measure the success of working software: Are people actually using it? What are they saying about it? If you see a lot of waste in your existing software development process, create value stream maps to identify areas of improvement and distribute to the team (include upper management!). Below is an example: Insistence on

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Follow the Creators of the Agile Manifesto

Follow the Creators of the Agile Manifesto

By in Agile
10 years ago
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Below are links to the websites and social media profiles of the 17 co-creators of the Agile Manifesto. We recommend following them if you are interested in Agile, SCRUM and software development.   Kent Beck Blog: http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KentBeck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeck Mike Beedle Website: http://www.enterprisescrum.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnterpriseScrum & https://twitter.com/mikebeedle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-beedle/4/67/a43 Arie van Bennekum Website: http://www.pmtd.nl/ Blog: http://projectbeheersing.finext.nl/NL/nieuws/nieuws/blog_arie_van_bennekum/0/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/arievanbennekum Alistair Cockburn Website: http://alistair.cockburn.us/ Blog: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Blog Twitter: https://twitter.com/TotherAlistair LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/alistair-cockburn/13/725/235 Ward Cunningham Website: http://c2.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WardCunningham LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wardcunningham Martin Fowler Websites: http://martinfowler.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/martinfowler Google+: https://plus.google.com/107610341080687821846/posts James Grenning Person Blog: https://www.renaissancesoftware.net/blog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jwgrenning LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwgrenning Jim Highsmith Blog: http://jimhighsmith.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimhighsmith LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-highsmith/0/31b/123 Andrew Hunt Website: http://andy.pragprog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pragmaticandy Ron Jeffries Twitter: https://twitter.com/RonJeffries Website: http://xprogramming.com/index.php Jon Kern Website: http://technicaldebt.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonKernPA LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonkern Brian Marick Website: http://www.exampler.com/blog/ Blog: http://www.exampler.com/blog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marick LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-marick/0/238/958 Robert C. Martin Twitter: https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin Website: https://sites.google.com/site/unclebobconsultingllc/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-martin/0/5b0/739 Steve Mellor Website: http://www.stephenmellor.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-mellor/0/225/232

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Agile: A Different Way to WIRC

By in Agile
10 years ago
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Recently I attended a webinar presented by Jeff Sutherland. Jeff created the first Scrum team in 1993 with Ken Schwaber, both of whom helped write the Agile Manifesto in 2001. The title of the presentation was Strategic Scrum for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors). During the webinar, Jeff pointed out that many Agile practitioners actually know very little about the contents of the Manifesto. Most can’t recite the four values of Agile. I was one of these folks until I began studying the Manifesto in depth, which led to a better understanding of who wrote it and why. Bob Martin summed things up nicely in Jim Highsmith‘s History: The Agile Manifesto article. We all felt privileged to work with a group of people who held a set of compatible values, a set of values based on trust and respect for each other and promoting organizational models based on people, collaboration, and

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San Diego Beach - Best City for Startups

Best City to Launch a Startup? Right Here In San Diego.

By in Business
10 years ago
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Recently Radius and Forbes Magazine listed San Diego as the best city to launch a startup. This was based on the analysis of 27 million U.S. businesses. San Diego ranks number one due to a large concentration of high growth businesses. One area identified as high growth happens to be computer systems design. Surprise! Surprise! Drive Current has been developing high performance, scalable computer systems in San Diego for more than a decade. Our highest priority is to satisfy our clients and their customers through early and continuous delivery of valuable, working software. Our strength lies in our: People – we build our projects around motivated individuals who are dedicated to getting the job done with continuous attention to good design and technical excellence. Process – our refined agile processes promote sustainable development and harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage. Passion – we work together daily with our customers

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Digital Retrospective Board Featured Image

Sprint Retrospective Exercise for Remote Scrum Teams

By in Agile
10 years ago
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Are you having difficulty facilitating sprint retrospectives because you have remote team members? We have developed a Digital Retrospective Board that may help. For those unfamiliar with Agile, a retrospective is one of  12 principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto,  more specifically: At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. At Drive Current, we’ve been using a collaborative retrospective technique with our local scrum teams for years. This traditional whiteboard exercise was adapted from the book Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies. It encourages the team to reflect on positive, neutral and stressful events during the sprint and emerge with an actionable task to iteratively improve the team, company or product over the next sprint cycle. After attending Diana Larsen’s Advanced Agile Retrospectives seminar in San Diego last week, I have an in-depth understanding of the fundamental requirements of any

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Preparing the Foundation for High Performing Agile Teams

By in Agile
10 years ago
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Every software company wants high-performing software development teams working on their projects. Easy right? Recruit and hire an experienced Agile product owner. Check! Recruit and hire an experienced Agile scrummaster. Check! Recruit and hire 4-7 highly skilled Agile developers. Check! So now you have your high-performing all-star team! Good luck… I’ve been a member of a team like this and I can tell you, pure skill will not get you where you want to be. The experience of others who’ve failed in this situation is invaluable. Let’s step back a bit and make sure we’re preparing the foundation for our high-performing team properly. Step 1 – Study the Agile Manifesto Don’t simply read it. STUDY it. It will likely come intuitively on your first read and you will think ‘Simple, I’ve got this.’ Trust me, you don’t. It will take time to understand why the four values are so important,

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