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Agile Implementation from a Manager's Perspective
“Perfect is the enemy of good”, so why change something that is working? In this article, based on a true story of agile implementation, you can find answers to the questions: why are managers afraid of letting their waterfall teams become agile? What could your manager’s dilemmas be when working in waterfall environment? So, to change or not to change?
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Fun at Work: Building an Organizational Culture in Which People Can Flourish
The only way for organizations to be fit for the future is to create the best employee experience by building an organizational culture, in which happiness plays a central part. Employees look for an organization with an appealing purpose, an organization that enables making progress in meaningful work, employs people that they feel connected to and gives space and facilities to have fun together
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Q&A on the Book Humble Leadership
The book Humble Leadership by Edgar and Peter Schein explores how building personal relationships and trust gives way to leadership that enables better information flow and self-management. The authors argue that we already possess the skill to form personal relations, and suggests using them to build and strengthen relationships with the people we lead and follow.
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DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Book Review and Q&A with Mirco Hering
InfoQ reviewed Mirco Hering's "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" book and reached out to the author for more insights on his experience, learnings and obstacles with transformations at large scale.
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Ajey Gore on Small Teams Making a Big Difference and Effective Outsourcing
Ajay Gore will talk at the upcoming Agile Impact conference in Indonesia on his experiences working across multiple cultures, outsourcing for the right reasons and how small teams who have end-to-end responsibility for their products enable scaling and growth.
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Chaos Conf Q&A: The Benefits, Challenges and Practices of Chaos Engineering
This Q&A, from the upcoming Chaos Conf event that is running in San Francisco in September, examines the benefits and challenges of chaos engineering. The article also provides emerging good practice, and contains prerequisites, recommendations, and tips for getting started.
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Are You the Barrier to Innovation?
You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends.
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Q&A on the Book Fluid
The book Book Fluid: How Culture, Hidden Opportunities, and Flatter Structures Lead to Profitable Innovation explores how to create a culture of change in companies. Najeeb Khan shows how fluid companies can act with higher speed and experiment to innovate, and how to transform towards a flat structure that allows everyone to test and validate ideas.
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The SOA Journey: from Understanding Business to Agile Architecture
If your monolith is tightly coupled and not cohesive, you could split it in order for a business to be more agile. There are a lot of wrong ways that you can do that. They result in the same tightly coupled and non-cohesive monolith, but which is distributed across a network. This article examines how you can align your technical services and business-capabilities.
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Can People Trust the Automated Decisions Made by Algorithms?
The use of automated decision making is increasing. These algorithms can produce results that are incomprehensible, or socially undesirable. How can we determine the safety of algorithms in devices if we cannot understand them? Public fears about the inability to foresee adverse consequences has impeded technologies such as nuclear energy and genetically modified crops.
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The Cost of Fear in Organisational Change
In this article Juncu explores the factors which cause fear of change in organisations and what it costs, how to challenge the status quo and provides advice on overcoming some of the limiting factors. She explores four common practices which feel like they reduce risk but actually exacerbate the challenges faced by organisations in the dynamic, fast moving world where adapting to change is vital
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Ballerina Tutorial: A Programming Language for Integration
Ballerina is a new programming language and platform whose objective is to make it easy to create resilient services that integrate and orchestrate across distributed endpoints. Ballerina’s design principles focus on baking integration concepts into a language, including a network-aware type system, sequence diagrammatic syntax, concurrency workers, being “DevOps ready”, and environment awareness.