In This Issue

• Mary Poppendieck Talk (video)
  The Role of Leadership in Software Development
• Connect with the V1 Community
  Introducing VersionOne Discussion Lists
• How big can an effective standup be?
• Agile Methodologies - a round table discussion
• Agile Dev Practices Conference

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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development

InfoQ presents a popular talk from the Agile2007 conference. Lean software thought leader Mary Poppendieck reviewed 20th century management theories, including Toyota and Deming, and went on to talk about "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, planning and standards. She closed by addressing the role of measurement: "cash flow thinking" over "balance sheet thinking".

View the talk HERE
(http://www.VersionOne.com/LatestRelease)

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Connect with the V1 Community

VersionOne invites you to join, participate, and learn from others in VersionOne’s user groups.

On our Community Site you will find discussion groups for product users focusing on getting more from their agile initiatives and developers using and/or extending VersionOne integrations.

Click this link to the Community site.
(http://community.versionone.com/Discussions/default.aspx)

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How big can an effective standup be?

David Anderson from Corbis writes in his Agile Management blog:

"This is a picture of a standup meeting on a large project at Corbis. [click to blog post for picture] Today I counted 41 attendees. The attendance has averaged 39 or 40 every day for 6 weeks. ." ...

Read David's blog post HERE
(http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/Howbigcananeffectivestand.html)

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Agile Development Methodologies - a round table discussion

By Scott Valentine - November 9, 2007

Red Canary asked three Canadian proponents of Agile – Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) James Kovacs, Strangeloop CTO Kent Alstad and Imaginet co-founder/Microsoft Regional Director Joel Semeniuk to share their thoughts on Agile.

Read the article HERE
(http://www.redcanary.ca/view/agile-development)

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Agile Dev Practices Conference - Dec. 3-6, 2007

VersionOne will be exhibiting at the Agile Development Practices conference in Orlando, Florida. If you missed Agile 2007, be sure to get down to Orlando. See the SQE/Better Software site to see the impressive list of speakers and tracks.

Orlando, Florida - December 3rd-6th, 2007
Better Software's "Agile Development Practices"

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