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Maintaining Mental health on Software Development Teams
Working on a software development team often means dealing with stress, anxiousness, and tight deadlines. Research has shown developers to have considerably higher chances of experiencing mental health issues than their counterparts, who perform mechanical tasks. Check out these nuggets of wisdom for stabilizing developers’ mental health, shared by Beetroot’s HR psychologist.
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Q&A on the Book Unleashing the Power of Diversity
The book Unleashing the Power of Diversity by Bjørn Z. Ekelund describes the Diversity Icebreaker, an experiential communication exercise where people learn about themselves and others. The differences are named Red, Blue and Green, a language of diversity that is relevant for interaction, problem solving, giving feedback, and creating inclusiveness and trust.
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Q&A on the Book Managing the Unmanageable
The book Managing the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty provides rules, tools, and insights to manage programmers and teams. It explores how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.
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Setting Up a Virtual Office for Remote Teams
Adopting a virtual office model saves a business $11,000+ annually per employee. It’s also one of the best answers to employees’ growing demands for mobility. Whether you’re considering a virtual office environment for several employees or a whole team, implement these strategies to ensure managers’ peace of mind and the top productivity of remote workers.
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Using OKRs to Build Autonomous Impact Teams
To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams.
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Author Q&A on the Book The Innovation Revelation
David Lowe has written the book The Innovation Revelation: A story about satisfying customer needs. The book tells the fictional story of Charlie Blades who is a manager in the IT department of a retail company in London, faced with disruption from outside and old ways of working inside. The story explores how changes in workplace culture and practices can result in better outcomes.
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Q&A on the Book Testing Business Ideas
The book Testing Business Ideas by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder provides experiments that can be used to find out if your product ideas are desirable, viable and feasible. Experimentation also helps to reduce the risk and increase the likelihood of success of new venture or business projects.
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Book Review: Developer, Advocate!
Developer, Advocate! is a set of interviews with prominent technologists, covering what drives their interest and enthusiasm in the industry. The brevity of each interview provides direct information and insight that can be read separately at any time, in any order, enabling those with busy schedules to read, put down, and repeat.
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Q&A on the Book Quantum Leadership
The book Quantum Leadership by Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo brings to light the power of direct-intuitive practices – such as meditation, nature immersion, art, and exercise – to transform a leader’s consciousness to the highest point of leverage for entrepreneurial creativity that embeds social purpose.
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How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free
There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem
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Great People Deserve Great Managers: Managers Effectiveness Index at Kronos Incorporated
Kronos transformed their managers’ capability by introducing a Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI), which consists of codifying the role of managers and measuring their effectiveness. The company turned their employees’ performance process upside down by asking their employees to rate their managers’ performance and effectiveness twice a year.
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Did You Forget the Ops in DevOps?
Kris Buytaert, a DevOps pioneer, takes us through his journey in the last 10 years of helping organizations go through the adoption hype cycle and sorting out misunderstandings in their transformations.