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It's Not You, It's Us: Winning Over People and Yourself for the Team
Neha Batra believes that the best teams are the ones with diverse ways of working, diverse opinions, and diverse backgrounds, but with great diversity comes great responsibility.
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The Oil of Personal Relationships: Why Forgiveness Can Be Useful
Marina Cantacuzino presents lessons on reconciliation and forgiveness learned from real life cases, teaching how to overcome division, resolve tension and learn to embrace difference.
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Enabling a Team Culture
Eben Halford takes a look at what makes teams different from groups, the structures that enable teams, team motivation, intervention models and the role of social capital in facilitating teams.
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Far from the Mobbing Crowd
Matt Wynne and Steve Tooke talk about challenges in dealing with a distributed team and remote collaboration, the tools and practices that helped them, and how they approached continuous improvement.
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Is It Possible to Run a 100% Remote Team?
Jeremy Edberg discusses remote teams and the pitfalls they’ve run into, the parts that are working well, and a summary of their research talking to other fully or partially remote teams.
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Collaborative Development: DevOps is Not Enough
Jim Benson notices that some organizations keep their silos and have even created a DevOps one, suggesting that what is needed is a UXDevQAOPS group or simply Collaborative Development.
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Putting People First – Building and Sustaining Awesome Distributed Teams at Scale
Mike Breeze and Ma Qiang share the story of a distributed team and its Agile transformation, placing individuals and interactions over processes and tools and avoiding the dark side of Agile.
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How a Simple Hackathon Helped Shape a New Mindset
Rhiannon Gaskell, Brett Wakeman, Rikki-Lee Vrankovich discuss how a hackathon sparked the change at Carsales AUS, followed by a number of initiatives that brought organizational agility.
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Distributing a Mobile Team: A Brave New Etsy Chapter
Hannah Mittelstaedt talks about how Etsy dissolved the traditional Android and iOS teams and trained tons of web developers in app development.
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Product Ownership Is a Team Sport
Shane Hastie discusses the need for business analysis and requirements management, and showing how product ownership requires a team with a variety of skills and backgrounds to be effective.
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The Importance of Culture - Building and Sustaining Effective Engineering Organizations
Randy Shoup discusses several important aspects of engineering cultures: hiring and retention, ownership and collaboration, quality and discipline, and learning and experimentation.
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Programming with GUTs
Kevlin Henney advises on writing Good Unit Tests (GUTs) by treating testing as a form of communication with multiple levels and forms of feedback.