Papers

These are papers and articles that we have published in various magazines and presented at different agile conferences over the years.

 

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ESUG 2009 - Project Planning
This is a talk I was invited to give at the ESUG 2009 conference covering agile planning techniques and story writing
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Agile.IT 2007 - Agile and Beyond Keynote Video
This is a video of the keynote speech presented for Agile Italy 2007, in Bologna. The theme of the talk was aiming higher with agile practices.
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Agile.IT 2007 - Agile and Beyond Keynote Slides
Slides from the keynote speech presented in Bologna, Italy 2007. The theme of the talk was aiming higher with agile practices.
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Iterex Standup Cards
These are cards you can print out and pass around your daily scrum/standup to keep people on track
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Slackers Guide To Project Tracking
This paper was presented at the Agile Development Conference 2004 and is the basis for Iterex Professional
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Futurespectives
A presentation outlining the basics of Futurespectives, a way of influencing your future.
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XP - Have You Got The Discipline (TickIt 2Q04)
This paper was written for TickIt and describes Agile discipline and how XP uses a set of supporting practices to achieve it.
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XP - Call In The Social Workers
This paper documents Tim Mackinnon's experiences working with other disciplines to improve the effectiveness of Agile teams. It was the inspiration behind the name "Heartbeat Retrospectives" which is what he called them when presenting to Norm Kerth
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Innovation and Sustainability with Gold Cards
This is an early paper Tim Mackinnon wrote when working at Connextra. To gain support for the idea (and ensure its success), he asked colleagues to work with me to shape the idea. The end result is still applicable for agile teams today.
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Retrospectives - Introduction
Presentation giving a quick overview of Retrospectives and a simple timeline excercise.

Originally presented at XPday2
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Retrospectives - Learning Not Just Repeating
A paper outlining retrospectives, their different types, excercises and some sample results. Also introduces Futurespectives.
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Mock Roles Not Objects
The refined Mock Objects paper presented at OOPSLA 2004. This paper reflects our collaboration with other developers and better expresses the role of using test expectations to define collaborations and API between software components on a needs driven development basis
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Mock Objects - Original Paper
The original Mock Objects paper presented at XP2000. This paper introduced our first ideas about using tests to express expectations between objects for better design.
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