Your daily standup (face-to-face) meeting can be your most important secret weapon for getting work done quickly and efficiently, but this doesn’t happen by accident. Effective daily standups are the result of a lot of intentional decisions to help your team reach its peak potential. In this talk, we’ll look at the goals of the daily standup and then work through how different approaches and common practices support or detract from those goals.

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How do the licenses work that govern open source software? What are the rights and responsibilities of a software developer when they incorporate open source code in their project? And what are the best practices when utilizing or developing an open source library? Join us to delve into the history, requirements, and best practices of open source licenses.

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The typical recommendation is that role of software leaders is just empowering teams and removing roadblocks. While this can work in organizations where small teams can work independently, I believe it is just wrong for large complex organizations. In these cases, if the organization is going to deliver the results the business deserves leaders are going to have to play a much more active and adaptive role.

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For some, life just doesn’t seem fair. They compete accessing the same science and technology, subject to the same rules and regulations, chasing the same opportunities, yet there’s those few who somehow seem to get more value out the door, better easier and quicker, with appreciation showering over all their stakeholders. How’s that happen? The very best are just “smarter at getting smarter” having build their “social circuitry” of processes and procedures, not to force control and conformance but to make it way easier to solve hard problems faster, delivering solutions that are wildly appreciated. How’s that happen? It’s with repeatable reliable approaches for making problem solving easier to do, problems easier to solve and problems more obvious early, before they have chance to become big.

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Flow Engineering has helped many businesses save months, millions, and morale in a few hours. Its rapid, collaborative mapping helps you define value, vision, direction, and alignment for your teams. Then we use it tackle your most critical bottleneck. I'll show you how to set a target, understand needs and workflow constraints, and connect opportunities to action.

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With the aid of maps a wander through the history of technology development, what it means, where we are going and what should we learn from the past.

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