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Maybe Agile Is the Problem
“Agile” now means anything, everything, and nothing. Many organizations are Agile fatigued, and the “Agile Industrial Complex” is part of the problem. Agilists must go back to the basics and simplicity of the Manifesto and 12 Principles. The Heart of Agile and Modern Agile are examples of basic, simple frameworks. Agilists also have much to learn from social sciences.
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Q&A on the Book Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the inside out
The book Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out explains how focusing on inner-agility through sensemaking, communication, and relationship intelligence can increase the outer agility of organizations. It describes Sense-and-Respond leadership, an approach to catalyzing the creation of outcomes by sensing acutely, responding gracefully, and sensing deliberately.
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A Different Meaning of CI - Continuous Improvement, the Heartbeat of DevOps
This personal experience report shows that political in-house games and bad corporate culture are not only annoying and a waste of time, but also harm a lot of initiatives for improvement. Whenever we become aware of the blame game, we should address it! DevOps wants to deliver high quality. The willingness to make things better - products, processes, collaboration, and more - is vital.
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Q&A on the Book Inviting Leadership
The book Inviting Leadership by Daniel Mezick and Mark Sheffield explores how using an invitational leadership approach can increase employee engagement and self-organization. It shows how changing the decision-making process influences culture and can lead to lasting change.
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Q&A on the Book OpenSpace Beta - A Handbook for Organizational Transformation in Just 90 Days
The book OpenSpace Beta by Silke Hermann and Niels Pflaeging describes an invitation-based approach for rapid and lasting organizational change using concepts such as OpenSpace and the BetaCodex. It provides a visual timeline with roles and components to guide a co-creation based transformation.
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A Great Engineer Needs the Liberal Arts
Much of what helps you become a great software engineer, and create outstanding software that people want to use, comes from outside the world of STEM. The ability to effectively analyze a problem, evaluate different options, and engineer a solution requires skills taught in the liberal arts.
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Crafting a Resilient Culture: Or, How to Survive an Accidental Mid-Day Production Incident
While working at Etsy, Ryn Daniels accidentally upgraded Apache on every single server that was running it, which caused a production incident. Explore lessons learned in this article, including that although automation and orchestration can be great, you should make sure you understand what’s happening under the hood and what to do if your automation goes awry.
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Q&A on the Book “Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart”
Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart by John O’Duinn is a practical guide for people who work in distributed or dispersed teams. It details the business, social and personal benefits of distributed teams and provides suggestions for effective communication when physically distributed, coordinating work and handling complex interpersonal situations.
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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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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.