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A week of learning, meeting people, establishing new connections, and realizing how much I do and don't know about agile. I got to hear and meet some of the household names in the agile community: Alistair Cockburn, Diana Larsen, Esther Derby, Christopher Avery, Jim Highsmith, Jim Shore, Brian Marick, Naresh Jain, Arlo Belshee (author of the ...

I'm currently reading Agile Project Management by Jim Highsmith.Lean ThinkingMany of the ideas of the agile movement first arose within lean manufacturing, which began in the automotive industry in Japan in the 1980s. One of the fundamental tenets of lean manufacturing is the systematic elimination of waste; that is, any activity that doesn't ...