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Take Back the Park
Several Bad Years Bad economy Layoffs Unemployment Less hiring Not a great time…
Perfect
Opportunity
Desperate
When Do We Change? When it hurts
InfoWorld, August 2004, pg. 42
You Drive the Change Bring ideas Suggest improvements Change the game
How? flickr.com/photos/nkphillips/ /
Roadmap flickr.com/photos/dotbenjamin/ Map
Strategy
Exact steps Guiding principles
Trust flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/
Agile Practices flickr.com/photos/hendricksphotos/
Small Teams flickr.com/photos/bohane/
Daily Meetings flickr.com/photos/improveit/
Hard Stop Iterations flickr.com/photos/jonwiley/
Continuous Integration Watch Code Build Product Run Tests Publish Results
What’s Your Role? flickr.com/photos/ekai/ /
How to Sell? Inner drug dealer Make it easy Users should crave
Your Manager Desperate Want ideas Want a better way Brilliant insights
Reinvent the Wheel?
Borrow from the Best
World Class Content Andy Hunt (Refactor Your Wetware) Joe Little (Business Value Engineering) Jeff Patton (Story Mapping) Dawn Canaan & Franz Pereira (Remote Pairing w/Dev & Test)
World Class Content Jason Tanner (Innovation Games) Larry Maccerone (Agile Metrics) Laurie Williams (What Does it Mean to Be Agile?) Don Gray (Systems Behind the Software)
World Class Content Raj Mudhar (Trajectory of Change) Bill Krebs (Agile 4-D) Rajiv Narula (Check Your Culture) Mary Lynn Manns (Leading a Fearless Change to Agile)
World Class Content Patrick Wilson-Welsh (Open Spaces)
RTP Resources
Agile User Group members
World Class Community Colleges
Real Colleges Too!
Incredible Educational Base
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All the Ingredients
RTP The best place to build software in the world? Why not?
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