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Psychological Safety in Training Games
Games can be safe places where people can learn lessons experientially under controlled circumstances and generate insights that can be applied to their daily work. Sometimes though, games can get too personal and uncomfortable. A facilitator can create safety mechanisms for these games, including making it easy and safe for people to opt-in and opt-out.
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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 575 Followers
Culture and Diversity - Why They Belong Together in Every Tech Organization
Culture and diversity can help a company’s bottom line, so it’s not surprising that organizations and their executive boards are focusing on ways to encourage inclusion. This article will look at specific benefits of diversity, and ways to encourage inclusion, essentially by allowing multiple voices to share in the story of the company.
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Distributed Agile Leadership
Even with the best of planning for your distributed Agile team, without good leadership in place, all of that planning can come to naught. With that in mind we look at some leadership trends that are relevant to self-organizing distributed Agile teams. Instead of proposing a new “Distributed Agile Leadership Framework”, our goal here is to inform you of important and relevant trends.
Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report - January 2018
At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics which are important to the community at the beginning of 2018.
Q&A with Dan Szuc and Jo Wong on Make Meaningful Work
Raf Gemmail speaks with UX leaders Dan Szuc and Josephine Wong about Make Meaningful Work, a humanistic framework and set of practices born from applying human-centered design to the workplace.
Soft Skill Patterns for Software Developers: The “Learning from Unintended Failures” Pattern
Soft Skill Patterns describe human behaviours that effectively solve recurring problems. The "Learning from Unintended Failures" pattern helps us improve the resilience of a system after a failure.
Culture: a Farming Tale
Culture and diversity are major factors for long-term company performance. Impacts include hiring practices, career development and direction, productivity, creativity, communication, and results.
Engineering Culture and Distributed Agile Teams
Franzen and Pahuja explain how their distributed agile framework can help distributed teams create an engineering culture, and actionable engineering practices and tools to work across the globe.
Oldies in Tech: Hiring and Getting Hired
In this article Denoncourt provides advice for older job seekers along tips on to get and do well in interviews. Employers will gain new perspectives on selecting and hiring older coders.
Louda Peña from Thoughtworks on Making Diversity Normal
How to Communicate Better in Distributed Teams
