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New arrows for the Agile quiver: Now that the team's head is in the game, how do you get their heart in?
Tue, 2008-02-05 17:39 — jim mccarthyGreat software comes from getting the best ideas into the product. Jim McCarthy, who led the legendary turnaround of the Visual C++ group at Microsoft, left Microsoft in 1996 to create a team dynamics laboratory to figure out how to always create a create a high performace team. His lab has focused on this challenge, and has produced 11 protocols for making unanimous decisions, supporting quality thinking, strengthening design iterations, and incorporating feedback, emotions, nobility, and passion into products. Learn about an entirely new class of tools.
Real Options in a Nutshell - Bottled Common Sense
Mon, 2008-01-28 23:47 — Olav Maassen, Chris Matts
How Real Options can help in running your project. Real Options is a decision-making process based on Financial Option Theory and Applied Psychology that can be used to manage risk.
The main challenge of this session is changing people’s mindset and behavior. We found a rational decision-making process based on maths and logic, rather than emotion and intuition. This session demonstrates that Real Options are at the heart of most Agile practices and principles, and are what drives Toyota.
After this session making decisions will never be the same again.
