I’m at Web 2.0 and Beyond – Applying Social and Collaborative Tools To Business . Social Computing and the Knowledge-Powered Enterprise John Davies, Next Generation Web Research Group, BT Social computing & Web 2.0 (user-generated, user-tagged content; social networking tools) 3rd generation KM – emergent social networks, opt-in, self-organising, tools chosen and integrated by the community social computing landscape – Ad-hoc-Structure, Personal-Enterprise. Link technologies to objectives. Knowledge-powered Enterprise – most knoweldge worker activity not based on formal processes – in people’s heads or unstructured documents.
I’m at Web 2.0 and Beyond – Applying Social and Collaborative Tools To Business . Social Tools Hit The Mainstream Lee Bryant, Headshift Ideas behind social tools now ready to challenge lots of existing IT and Internal Communications practices inside organisations – Tim O’Reilly The social stack: Personal tools – organise your “stuff” by tags- personal portals, manage networks and feeds. Group Collaboration – wikis and group systems Blogs and networks Bookmarks and Tags Public feeds and flows Proven benefits:
I’m blogging Web 2.0 and Beyond – Applying Social and Collaborative Tools To Business . Social Tools Hit The Mainstream – Lee Bryant, Headshift Social Computing and the Knowledge-Powered Enterprise – John Davies, BT Case Study: A Whistlestop Tour Round Web Marketing 2.0 – Will Wynne, ArenaFlowers.com Social is Good for Business: Snockles – Neil Burton, Web Spiders Facilitating Open Innovation in A Distributed Community Using Free Social Software Tools – Claire Reddington & Ed Mitchell Technology Brings Power to the People – Crispin O’Brien KPMG Business in Virtual Worlds, How we got here with Web 2.
I’ve spent the last two days Agile Approaches for Delivering Business Value, and feel I’ve learnt a lot. Here are my initial reflections on the conference. Firstly, there are a lot of very smart people thinking about these issues – it was thoroughly enjoyable to have to take on so many ideas in such a period of time. The second thing that stood out was that most of the people at the conference were involved with the development / supplier side of the IT equation.
I’m blogging the conference Agile Approaches for Delivering Business Value Acceptance Test Driven Development David Peterson Summary What happens if you put acceptance tests in the driving seat? Fresh ideas about the agile development process Practical techniques to improve your project’s agility Emphasis on process and practice (non-technical) Notes Whilst working at EasyNet, David modified their normal XP iteration cycle to insert a phase where, for each story, acceptance test criteria were agreed and documented.
I’m blogging the conference Agile Approaches for Delivering Business Value DSDM Atern: The next step in agile! Keith Richards, Keith Richards Consulting__, on behalf of DSDM Consortium Summary DSDM Atern (login required) “The Agile Project Delivery Framework” Latest iteration of DSDM – much more aimed at being a generic project management method rather than IT-specific. Often used as a wrapper around Scrum and XP to scale them. Philosophy / Principles / Process / People / Products / Practices
I’m blogging the conference Agile Approaches for Delivering Business Value When XP Met Outsourcing Angela Martin, Martin IT Consulting Ltd Outsourcing is common for software development, and is the context for many projects using agile development processes. This paper presents two case studies concentrating on the customer role in projects using outsourcing and extreme programming (XP). The studies follow an interpretive approach based on in-depth interviews, and suggest some tensions between some contractual arrangements in outsourcing, and the XP process.
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A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Agile and fixed-price contracts
Duncan Pierce, Amarinda Consulting Ltd
Summary
Luckily you don’t have to hit agile particularly hard to make it fit, while being internally agile gives the fixed-price supplier some interesting options.
In this presentation we’ll explore the value of those options and what has to change for agile to work in a fixed-price world.
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Can IT Projects be Insured?
Graham Oakes, Graham Oakes Ltd
Summary
In the movie industry, the people financing new productions can buy “Completion Bonds” – effectively insurance policies that repay their investment if the film isn’t completed on time and in line with the original proposal. Such bonds cost perhaps 2-6% of the total production budget. Could we do the same for IT projects?
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Fit for the Future: The future of Agile Acceptance Test Tools
Antony Marcano, testingReflections.com
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