Jean Tabaka
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19 years 8 monthsAn agile coach with Rally Software Jean Tabaka specializes in creating and mentoring agile software teams. Bringing more than twenty-five years of experience in software development to the agile plate, Jean is a Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified Professional Facilitator, and author of Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders.
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| Empowering Agile TeamsTeams, when truly empowered, will always make better decisions than any one individual. Where can you empower teams as you adopt agile? | |
| Attacking Waste in Software: Three Practices We Must Embrace NowIn this keynote presentation from the Better Software Conference & EXPO, Jean Tabaka proposes three pivotal practices that we must embrace to aggressively attack waste in software delivery—software-as-a-service, community, and fast-feature throughput. | |
| Getting New Agile Teams into Flow Jean Tabaka considers "flow," a term borrowed from the lean thinking world, to be a core discipline for guiding new agile teams. In this week's column, Jean reveals the characteristics of agile teams in flow, the roadblocks they may have to overcome, and the benefits they will derive from their successful flow adoption. |
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11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail Usually, when Jean Tabaka lists practices, techniques, ideas, or recommendations about software development, she sticks with the number ten. It's nice and neat and has a fine history of enumeration cleanliness dating back to the Old Testament. But for agile adoption failures, Jean thinks it is time to invoke some Spinal Tap and go to eleven. Here are her top eleven signs that your agile adoption is headed down a slippery slope to failure. |