Videos
Architecture: Big design up front, or cowboy ‘design-it-as-you-go’ coding?
The next time someone asks, “Is it done?” don’t answer with a half–baked guess.
The product owner role is one of the most underestimated and misunderstood jobs on a Scrum team. A good product owner must be able to juggle business needs, stakeholder demands, and team capacity realities, all in the pursuit of an end product that is on time, on budget, and on target.
Ward and Jim get together at Agile Open Northwest in Feb 2009 to talk about CI and merge. Worth the eight minute watch.
Updated March 2012: The role of the manager in a software company is changing. No longer is it about driving people to achieve results. Now it is about enabling teams to be hyper-productive.
Technical interviewing and hiring an agile team can be a challenge. In this video, recorded in January, 2013, Mitch Lacey & Jonathan Wanagel from Microsoft discuss anti-patterns that can lead to corporate dysfunction.
Can adding a team member take down an entire project? It can. Watch this video to hear a story of a project I ran that was almost killed due to team dysfunction.
The true measure of project progress is working software - or is it? Recording from Microsoft TechEd Europe 2010, Berlin Germany
