Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams

Summary of Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams
Roy Osherove discusses principles and practices that make teams more effective, successful and happy. Team topics covered: automating everything possible, buying/using/discarding tools, getting quick feedback, communicating without using meetings, building by feature not layer, code & tests reviewing. Lead topics: bottleneck ninja, integrity, removing obstacles

It’s worth taking the time and watching this talk.He points out some really important issues in team work and gives some ideas how to improve them.Here are some links from the presentatioin:

http://www.autohotkey.com/
http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban/

http://leanandkanban.wordpress.com/

Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Scrumban-Essays-Systems-Software-Development/dp/0578002140
http://www.amazon.com/Kanban-David-J-Anderson/dp/0984521402/ref=pd_sim_b_8

Update:  Use of Kanban in the Operations Team at Spotify

Update 06.10.2010: Kanban – Crossing the Line, Pushing the Limit or Rediscovering the Agile Vision?