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How to Deal with Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management. Integrating specific coaching principles can enhance the quality of your conversations by guiding dialogue to uncover actionable insights, foster trust, boost collaboration, and drive clarity in your objectives.

Alexander Giurca
on Jan 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

Agile Coaching as a Path toward a Deeper Meaning of Work and Life

In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves. We also learn how focusing on our existing strengths and situations can help us discover our authentic purpose in work and life.

Ari-Pekka Skarp
on Nov 16, 2023
Culture & Methods

Agile Rehab: Replacing Process Dogma with Engineering to Achieve True Agility

Struggling with your "agile transformation?" Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for? In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users.

Bryan Finster
on Oct 27, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Agile Teams Can Improve Predictability by Measuring Stability

In this article, we will present our approach for analysing agile systems as networks of queues and how we have used it to analyse 926 projects in the Public Jira Dataset. We explain how you can measure the Stability Metric (SM) for your queues. Finally, we will present our planned next phase of research.

Rob Healy Brian Fitzgerald Kieran Conboy Tapajit Dey Edwin Lewzey
on Oct 13, 2023
Culture & Methods

Becoming More Assertive: How to Express Yourself, Give Feedback, and Set Boundaries

Do you know that feeling, when you are brave enough to say ‘NO’ and then you don’t feel comfortable about it? This article provides a proper understanding of what an assertiveness skill is. You will learn how to identify the communication skills we need to work on to become more assertive, and get information about the characteristics and skills of assertive people.

Marta Firlej
on Aug 16, 2023
Culture & Methods

Actionable Green Choices for Your Software, Your Products, and You

Climate change is no longer just a huge worry cloud hanging over our heads. There are solutions, choices, and actions we can take - for ourselves, our children, and the future. This article gives you information about some of those choices: some bare glimpses into the art of the possible; others are tried and tested methods with known outcomes.

Joanna Masraff
on Jul 27, 2023
Culture & Methods

IDEA: a Framework for Nurturing a Culture of Continuous Experimentation

For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn. This article explains how teams can foster such a culture, navigate through the complexities of modern development environments and harness agility to deliver software quickly that fits the needs of users and business sponsors. It describes a framework to explore, plan, implement and evaluate ideas.

Sarah Aslanifar
on Jul 18, 2023
Culture & Methods

Autism at the Workplace: Autism Coaching as a Methodology

As a person with autism or other neurodiversity, it’s important to get to know yourself really well. It’s even better if another person can get to know you from the inside-out. Dennie Declercq and his mom Ivette Marchand found a way to allow for open and vulnerable communication between them. They made Declercq’s life-manual, which enables him to be happy and productive as a software developer.

Ben Linders Dennie Declercq Ivette Marchand
on Jul 05, 2023
Culture & Methods

Embracing ADHD and Other Neurodivergencies in Software Development Teams

In recent years, there has been increased attention to neurodivergencies such as ADHD, hyper-sensitivity, autism, dyslexia, etc. In this article, Dietrich Moerman tells his own story about ADHD while working as a software developer and becoming a team lead, what he learned, and what he found to be working well to help people with ADHD and more to thrive in their teams and companies.

Dietrich Moerman
on Jun 28, 2023
Culture & Methods

Shift in Sprint Review Mindset: from Reporting to Inclusive Ideation

Sprint Reviews should foster a dynamic environment of creativity, exploration, and continual refinement, where important product and overall business decisions are taken. In this article, we will explore the substantial mindset shift and routine change from a typical reporting-focused to interactive data-driven culture of Sprint Reviews.

Yuliia Pieskova
on Jun 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Using Trauma-Informed Approaches in Agile Environments

Scientific and clinical understanding of how the human nervous system develops and works has increased tremendously. Its implications are so profound they radiate far beyond the field of psychology. Topics such as trauma-informed law, volleyball coaching, legal counseling, education, and social activism have arisen. It is time to consider how it affects working in an agile tech environment.

Anton Skornyakov
on Jun 15, 2023
Architecture & Design

Using Project Orleans to Build Actor-Based Solutions on the .Net Platform

This article takes a look at Project Orleans, an actor model framework from Microsoft. Version 7 makes it a lot easier to get started with, as it builds on top of the .NET IHost abstraction. This allows us to add it to .NET applications in a simple way. On top of that it abstracts away most of the complicated parts, allowing us to focus on the important stuff, the problems we need to solve.

Chris Klug
on Jun 14, 2023