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In general, developers do not like to give presentations. In fact, they dread it. This is unfortunate because presentations can be a powerful asset. Most individuals cannot survive a long career without presenting on occasion. Others may have the courage but lack the proper guidance to present effectively. Whatever the circumstance, developing good presentation skills is easier than learning a new technology. The process rarely changes. Learn it once and reap the benefits. 

"While Scrum's primary goal is organization and project management, Lean is more about optimizing processes in order to quickly produce quality products. It can be your first step toward adopting Agile principles, or it may be something that your team evolves to, when Scrum isn't enough. I invite you to read my team's story, and how we evolved from Scrum to a more Lean-ish development process."

"Instead of waiting until the end of a project to ask 'what worked and what didn't, why not use regular retrospective analysis as part of the development process  to find out what is, and isn't, working, and learn from the conclusions there and then?"

TechEd Europe 2012: typically, we write down requirements somewhere and then use it as the starting point for development. In the talk we see how these two worlds can come closer together: a requirement can be a failing test that development has to fix.

Some time ago, the development team at my firm staged a revolt against the sales team and senior management: our demand was that no Statement of Work was to be sent to a customer without first being reviewed by a member of the development team. [..] Today I would like to explore an important aspect of any Statement of Work: the pricing model.

"Agile software development with a focus on effective Scrum and proven team practices."

The goal of this blog entry is to explain the basic concepts of Scrum in less than five minutes. You learn how Scrum can help a team of developers to successfully complete a complex software project.

Using peer code review best practices  optimizes your code reviews, improves your  code and makes the most of your  developers' time. The recommended best  practices contained within for efficient,  lightweight peer code review have been  proven to be effective via extensive field  experience.

"After a good discussion with a colleague for the merits of code review I thought I should give some of the reasons I use as to why a development team should adopt a code review process."