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The Most Common Developer Challenges That Prevent a Change Mindset—and How to Tackle Them

Software engineers are feeling burnt out, and this is directly affecting their productivity and ability to learn new skills. But in today’s ever-growing digital world, developers must be on top of new technologies and tools. Team leaders, therefore, need to cultivate a change mindset by adopting a business-impact-first approach and learning from startup environments, among other tips.

Shree Mijarguttu
on Dec 16, 2022
Culture & Methods

Craftleadership: Craft Your Leadership as Developers Craft Code

Learning software craftership made me reconsider how I wrote code. Being an experienced software team manager, I try to reevaluate my management practices in the same way: what could test-driven management or pair-management be? Here I propose different insights on how software craftership tools and mindset are transposable to the management domain.

Edouard Gomez-Vaëz
on Nov 22, 2022
Culture & Methods

Accessing Agile Games as a Tool in Transformation and Change

This article puts the usage of Agile Games into a broader business context and introduces the steps needed to make any game a verifiable contribution to a given business objective. As “business” is a wide area of topics to be addressed, the article focuses on accessing Agile Games as a tool used within transformation and change. It provides an example that was taken from this area.

Anne Hoffmann
on Oct 03, 2022 1
Culture & Methods

How to Spark a Consumer-Grade UX Revolution

Turning end-users into advocates is one of the most powerful things SaaS companies can accomplish today. This can be a major project for a company, but it’s a revolution that can start small - and start today. Here we cover how to kick-off, manage, implement and iterate upon adding consumer-grade UX to the services that you own.

Marcelo Wiermann
on Jul 26, 2022
Culture & Methods

Creating Psychological Safety in Your Teams

Psychological safety is a work climate where employees feel free to express their questions, concerns, ideas and mistakes. We cannot have high-performing teams without psychological safety. In this article, you will learn practical ideas, interesting stories, and powerful approaches to boost psychological safety in your team.

Mehmet Baha
on Jan 17, 2022
Culture & Methods

Growing an Experiment-Driven Quality Culture in Software Development

Have you ever faced a challenge at work that you weren’t sure how to tackle? Experiments to the rescue! In a complex environment like software development, no one can tell what might work, so we have to try things out. Read this article to learn about key challenges, insights and lessons, and get inspired for your own path to experimentation.

Lisi Hocke
on Dec 15, 2021
Culture & Methods

Applying Social Leadership to Enhance Collaboration and Nurture Communities

There are many styles and forms of leadership. In this article we explore social leadership, a form of leadership that has helped to challenge views on what leadership truly is and find out what behaviours can help create collaborative cultures and spaces where learning and meaningful engagement matter the most.

Sathpal Singh
on Dec 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Takeoff: What Software Development Can Learn from Aviation

A lot of professions have been around way longer than software development and have developed "best practices" to handle typical problems and challenges. Software developers can benefit from taking a closer look at aircraft maintenance or a pilot’s processes to learn from them, optimize our processes. and last but not least, try to reduce some of the stress that we experience over and over again.

Christian Seifert
on Oct 21, 2021
Culture & Methods

Developer Learning Isn’t Just Important, It’s Imperative

Every industry leader worries about the scarcity of high-quality software engineers. That means companies feel serious pressure to constantly hire new and better developers. But rather than looking externally for a solution, what if companies looked internally? Here’s the reality: meaningful developer learning helps companies convert silver medalists into gold medalists.

Fahim ul Haq
on Oct 19, 2021
Culture & Methods

How to Enable Team Learning and Boost Performance

Team performance is dependent on safety, teamwork and ongoing learning. Clarity in roles, psychological safety, breaking bad habits and constantly learning are critical to enabling high performance.

Liana Martirosyan
on Sep 07, 2021
Culture & Methods

A Journey in Test Engineering Leadership: Applying Session-Based Test Management

This article shows how modifying Session-based Test Management to our context helped us gain more visibility into our testing. Having a structured yet flexible approach to test management allowed us to make better, more timely decisions about the testing, and gave us more opportunities to influence quality decisions earlier in the process.

Djuka Selendic
on Aug 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Cultivate Team Learning with Xtrem Reading

To thrive in the 21st century, companies have to continually enhance their capabilities to create what they want to create. Becoming a learning organization is key to success in the modern world. Peter Senge defined 5 disciplines of a learning organization. This article introduces workshop techniques that will help you start your journey in the 4th discipline, team learning.

Yoan Thirion
on Jul 09, 2021