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Essays from November 2009

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  1. Agile Scales, Waterfall doesn’t – Video of a talk at Agile Eastern Europe

    Sometime ago I did a talk about Scaling Software Development at Agile Eastern Europe in Ukraine. The slides are up in my slideshare account, but now you can see the video of the talk that Agile EE made available. In this talk I try to describe what “scaling” means and come to the conclusion that …

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