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Spark the Change Winner - Mission-critical: a case study of GCHQ’s culture of innovation
The UK’s intelligence agency has a proud history of technical innovation, but given its need for secrecy and public accountability, it doesn’t sound like the kind of place to win an award for ‘innovation in management and building a happier workplace’. Yet when Spark judge, Helen Walton, interviewed GCHQ, she discovered a culture of creativity, diversity and surprising openness.
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Author Q&A: Introduction to Agile Methods by Sondra Ashmore & Kristin Runyan
The book Introduction to Agile Methods by Sondra Ashmore & Kristin Runyan is a straightforward introduction to agile values, principles and practices which includes interviews with various luminaries and respected figures from the agile movement.
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Reflections on the Dare Festival – Melbourne, 2014
Dare Festival Melbourne is a one-day fast paced event about workplace innovation, change and happiness - Anton summarises the talks with help from some visual recordings by Lynne Cazaly with Marcel Van Hove. Talks covered topics focusing on organisational change and leadership needed to create great places to work.
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Building Relationships Between Agile Teams and Stakeholders
Neuroscience tell us that humans are wired to connect with each other says Jenni Jepsen. Results from neuroscience research can be used in our daily work to strengthen relationships in the workplace and improve collaboration between agile teams and their stakeholders.
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Q&A with Gojko Adzic on Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
The book fifty quick ideas to improve your user stories aims to help people to write better user stories, supporting teams in iteratively delivering products that satisfy the needs of their customers. InfoQ interviewed Gojko Adzic about the format of his new book, when and when not to use user stories, the ideas that the book provides, organizing product backlogs and prioritizing user stories.
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Getting the most out of impact mapping
Impact Mapping has taken off in the last few years from its roots in user experience strategy and design, and adopted by small startups and big enterprise software companies alike. All the recent popularity is providing an immense amount of front-line feedback, and helping to refine and improve the method. A new model proposes two key factors to consider for software delivery using impact maps.
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Q&A with Jeff Sutherland on Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
In his new book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland explains how the Scrum framework can be used as a general business practice to accelerate work of all kinds. An interview with Jeff about using Scrum outside software development, characteristics of great teams, increasing happiness, product owner teams, and on experiences from applying Scrum for education.
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Introducing Pair Programming
Why don’t more teams use pair programming? Why should they? Pair programming can increase quality, velocity and even job satisfaction, if it is implemented well. If you have ever been curious about pair programming, loved or hated pair programming, wished you were pair programming or tried and failed to introduce it to your team, this article examines how to make it work and how to get started.
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An interview with Sam Guckenheimer on Microsoft's Journey to Cloud Cadence
At the recent Agile 2014 conference Sam Guckenheimer gave the opening keynote on Microsoft Developer Division's transition to a continuous delivery model. After the talk he sat down with InfoQ to discuss what it takes to achieve operational agility and cloud cadence.
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More Than LeSS
While the agile community has come up with refreshingly new approaches to scale agile methods, these models still seem to fall short in addressing the organizational complexity around large projects. This article provides a holistic approach to scaling Scrum. It is based on LeSS, amending it to better face the challenges of large projects.
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Three Practical Guidelines for Business Decisions
You will find 3 practical Agile rules to combine top-down problem-decisions (project waterfall like approaches) and local problem-decisions (Agile project approach) in this article. The three are: implement simple local rules, define Strategic top down rules and promote a visual problem view. These are an excerpt from Michael's book: Agile Decisions, Driving Effective Agile Decisions in Business
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The Agile Coaches' Coach Shares Her View on SAFe
This article conveys one agile coach’s journey coming to terms with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Lyssa Adkins shares her thoughts about SAFe and the Agile Manifesto from the viewpoint of the discipline of agile coaching. She explains how using biased views can help us to look out wider and farther to develop a "Yes AND" approach, combining SAFe with Scrum.