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Collaborative Development: DevOps is Not Enough
Jim Benson notices that some organizations keep their silos and have even created a DevOps one, suggesting that what is needed is a UXDevQAOPS group or simply Collaborative Development.
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Putting People First – Building and Sustaining Awesome Distributed Teams at Scale
Mike Breeze and Ma Qiang share the story of a distributed team and its Agile transformation, placing individuals and interactions over processes and tools and avoiding the dark side of Agile.
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How a Simple Hackathon Helped Shape a New Mindset
Rhiannon Gaskell, Brett Wakeman, Rikki-Lee Vrankovich discuss how a hackathon sparked the change at Carsales AUS, followed by a number of initiatives that brought organizational agility.
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Distributing a Mobile Team: A Brave New Etsy Chapter
Hannah Mittelstaedt talks about how Etsy dissolved the traditional Android and iOS teams and trained tons of web developers in app development.
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Product Ownership Is a Team Sport
Shane Hastie discusses the need for business analysis and requirements management, and showing how product ownership requires a team with a variety of skills and backgrounds to be effective.
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The Importance of Culture - Building and Sustaining Effective Engineering Organizations
Randy Shoup discusses several important aspects of engineering cultures: hiring and retention, ownership and collaboration, quality and discipline, and learning and experimentation.
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Programming with GUTs
Kevlin Henney advises on writing Good Unit Tests (GUTs) by treating testing as a form of communication with multiple levels and forms of feedback.
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Wired to Connect - Creating Great Relationships Is Human Nature
Jenni Jepsen shares the neuroscience behind why human brain is wired to connect with others, and how to use that to delight customers and stakeholders every day.
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Neuro-diversity and Agile
Sallyann Freudenberg takes some very different slants on the psychology of programming and explores how each of them might be better supported: cognitive, autistic, introverted / extraverted.
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Remote Ecologies
Elinor Slomba discusses sharing projects with other organizations using Agile principles and practices, highlighting Context, Collaboration & Connection through three case studies.
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Overcoming Cultural Differences by Focusing on Similarities
Jutta Eckstein presents techniques that helped her to create a common culture in different global projects she worked on.
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Applying Agile Development Practices in Distributed Teams
Jutta Eckstein discusses the impact and application of agile development practices in distributed teams and how such a team can ensure its technical excellence.