Presentations

[ Business Foundations of IT ]
Ian Robinson describes how to create a stable foundation for the IT systems estate - using three case studies from recent client work, Ian shows how, by considering the business capabilities - the "What" we are trying to achieve, over the "How" - business and IT can work more effectively to common goals, with a common language.
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[ The Enterprise Architecture You Always Wanted ]
Dr Jim Webber presents the web as a viable, scalable enterprise architecture solution. He uses a case study from a recent ThoughtWorks UK project to illustrate his theory and its ability to save millions of pounds in middleware.
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[ Innovating Information Systems ]
Scott Conley, ThoughtWorks' CSO, and Roy Singham, ThoughtWorks' founder, presented in London on innovation - focussing on the platforms of social networking, cloud and mobile, this briefing covers many global examples of companies innovating to take advantage of market opportunities.
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[ Making Long Distance Relationships Work ]
Trevor Mather, ThoughtWorks CEO, and Dhramarajan Sitaraman, ThoughtWorks' India MD, presented in London on Offshore - the disappointments, the risks and ways to mitigate or avoid them. The presentation provides context around today's offshore market then looks at disciplined Agile practices, non hierarchical structures and approaches to partnering - slides only.
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[ guardian.co.uk - Enterprise Agile in Practice ]
Stephen Dunn and Nik Silver from Guardian (the UK's most popular news website) pair up with ThoughtWorks' Stephen Foreshew and Angela Ashworth to talk about the project which saw over a million pieces of content migrated to the new platform, over the course of a 2 year project. They look at the challenges posed by such a large scale project, the path leading to it, the strategy taken and the results.
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[ Forging a new Alliance - watch presentation on InfoQ ]

Scott Shaw and Martin Fowler talk about the need for a new relationship between the business and IT. Studies have constantly shown that the main culprit for unsuccessful projects lies in miscommunication between the business people and the IT ones. Watch the full presentation on InfoQ.

[ Engaging Agile Teams QTB - download presentation ]
This briefing explores the expectation gap between management, procurement and legal teams when dealing with Agile software development. It also provides a brief overview of Agile practices to establish common understanding for all stakeholders.

[ Lean Thinking for IT Professionals - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' Lean consultant, Richard Durnall, presents the processes, tools and philosophies applied by Toyota Corporation to become one of the most successful companies in the history of the world and it's 7th largest. Using case studies from ThoughtWorks Australia clients he explores how Lean principles apply in IT.

[ Distributed Agile - an Oxymoron? - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' consultants, Pat Kua and Liz Keogh present on the challenges, rewards and frustrations of real distributed Agile projects to a Butler group audience.

[ Agile Primer - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' consultant and coach, Pat Kua, walks through software engineering practices, the Agile manifesto and what it all means, a practical guide to Agile principles, practices and realities.

[ Quality without Heroics - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' Global Test Practice Lead, Kristan Vingrys and Senior Consultant, Jason Yip discuss techniques to improve quality in your organisation.

[ Agile Made Us Better But We Signed Up For Great]
ThoughtWorks Client Principal Ross Pettit focuses on the difference between following Agile practices and being an agile organisation. He introduces practical tools and concepts that can make immediate impact on your team and make IT a GREAT delivery partner. Follow along using this PDF slide deck: Agile Made Us Better... (PDF). [ view now ]

[ Keyboard Tips for Programmers ]
ThoughtWorks "Meme Wrangler" Neal Ford discusses practical keyboard tips for accelerating your development as a programmer. These tips and more are found in Neal's book, The Productive Programmer. In the book Neal discusses how developers can be more productive. [ more ]