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They have gathered together the ‘best bits’ of various styles and methodologies they have been directly involved with, and combined them into a practical approach with the focus on delivering a pro...
-Mitch Wheat
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Brilliant! Should You Fire Your Heroes? (Sep 25)
What should you do when people constantly have to save projects? Understand why the project needs saving! And fix it.

Don't misunderstand... if the project was 'like that when I got here', it's not your fault. But if you owned it, ran it, then had to save it... maybe you should re-examine how you work.

From Paul Duval (a fellow No Fluff Just Stuff speaker)
Fire your best people…reward the “lazy” ones

Are you constantly bailing water? Step back and find out which pipes are leaking.

Category: Agile

Agile Tour (2010-10-28)
This will be a great collection of speakers on Agile and business topics.
Indie Conf (2010-11-13)
I'll be talking about keeping your skills current at this conference for independent web developers
Agile Dev Practices East (2010-11-14)
This world-class conference in Orlando always has a great mix of speakers and attendees. Don't miss it!


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