“An yearly budget is like having a bank closed for 11 months” is the concept Bjarte Bogsnes critisises in many organizations. He applied a concept called Beyond Budgeting at Stat Oil, one of the largest companies in the oil business, as CFO for over 15 years.
Please view this presentation about the concept of Beyond Budgeting:
Vasco Duarte talks about #NoEstimates. This video is from the Agile Croatia Conference in 2014. You will find out how to use the concepts of #NoEstimates, how to work on software projects without using too…
The concept of technical debt is used a lot in the software world today. But the problem is that the concept is used almost always with a different meaning than the initial one.
Ward Cunningham coined this metaphor when he was working for a financial software product. The meaning of this concept is that we prefer to put in production software with a partial understanding of the requirements and gather feedback. The only reason we do this, because we learn faster about how the feature should look like. While we put in production partial features, we accumulate debt. It is extremely important to take the time and clean the technical debt, by adding into the software the gathered understanding from the partial feature put in production.
This video was recorded at Agile Lean Europe (ALE) Unconference 2014 in Krakow.
Olaf talks about how we could increase trust in our organizations by considering that the people we work with are adults. Another topic is de-scaling organizations, so that the people have a happy working place where they can take decisions and further more, they are invited to take decisions.
James Shore is one of the promoters of TDD in Javascript. He is presenting codecasts on his website Let’s Code Javascript about how to work effectively in Javascript.
As James says:
“JavaScript Needs Test-Driven Development
If you’ve programmed in JavaScript, you know that it’s an… interesting… language. Don’t get me wrong: I love JavaScript. I love its first-class functions, the intensive VM competition among browser makers, and how it makes the web come alive. It definitely has its good parts.
It also has some not-so-good parts. Whether it’s browser DOMs, automatic semicolon insertion, or an object model with a split personality, everyone’s had some part of JavaScript bite them in the butt at some point. That’s why using test-driven development is so important.”
This video is the opening keynote from Agile Lean Europe (ALE) Unconference in 2011, Berlin.
Rachel Davies gives an idea on how Agile works at the moment, and how we cannot really do agile scaling in big enterprises.