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Dev & UX: How Integrating UX Improves Engineering’s Efficiency and Sanity

User experience (UX) is often misunderstood. Many teams and workers believe it’s just sketching or laying out screens. Misunderstanding UX leads to problems in hiring, processes, team culture, product, and customer satisfaction. Today we’ll learn how to start improving all of these by seeing UX as it really is: engineering’s time and money saver.

Debbie Levitt
on Oct 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Office Optional

The book Office Optional by Larry English describes how employees from Centric work virtually within a culture that contributes to the business’s success and employee happiness. The stories in this book provide insights into how working remotely looks, building relationships and trust in a virtual environment, managing remote teams, and recruiting and hiring people for remote working.

Ben Linders Larry English
on Sep 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book- Problem? What Problem? with Ben Linders

Ben Linders has written a new book focused on helping teams and individuals identify and address impediments. Titled Problem? What Problem? The book presents ideas and experience around problem-solving approaches using an agile mindset and principles to help teams rapidly overcome challenges and use impediments as opportunities to learn and adapt.

Shane Hastie Ben Linders
on Sep 24, 2020
Culture & Methods

Adaptive Architecture: a Bridge between Fashion and Technology

Adaptive architecture is a feature of agile software development and is also a source of competitive advantage in the fashion industry. Nike's collaboration with Virgil Abloh on "The Ten" is an example of how these principles play out.

Gabriel Sampaio
on Sep 17, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Art of Leadership

In the book The Art of Leadership, Michael Lopp shares stories of leadership habits and practices. Examples include reading the room, getting feedback, delegation, giving compliments, understanding the culture, and being kind. In the book Lopp describes how he practiced and refined these leadership habits over the years and what he has learned from doing so.

Ben Linders Michael Lopp
on Sep 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

A Five-step Guide to Building Empathy That Can Boost Your Development Career

Empathy isn’t just a nice-to-have soft skill. It’s one of the top six skills required of employees in 2020 and beyond, according to Forbes. Learn why empathy is critical for developers in particular and explore these five steps you can take to cultivate empathy in your day-to-day: 1. Understand yourself, 2. Understand them, 3. Build comfort into conversations, 4. Learn how to listen, 5. Practice.

Ryan Thomas Vasudha Prabhala
on Sep 11, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Untapped Agility

The book Untapped Agility by Jesse Fewell explains what holds organizations back in increasing their agility. It describes barriers that may appear during an agile transformation and provides “rebound” moves for unblocking the transformation and moving forward. This recurring pattern of Boost, then Barrier, then Rebound both encourages and enables frustrated agile champions.

Ben Linders Jesse Fewell
on Sep 10, 2020
Culture & Methods

How to Build a Strong Beta Testers Community

It is important to involve the real users at the early stages of your development cycle. A strong beta testers community not only improves your product, but also provides context, pain points and ideas while increasing loyalty and engagement. This article offers tips and tricks on how to build a beta testers program and a process of supporting the program with a modest allotment.

Lilia Gorbachik
on Sep 04, 2020
Culture & Methods

Exchange Cybernetics: towards a Science of Agility & Adaptation

Agility can become part of a scientific theory of adaptation. The capacity for adaptation is nothing more than the ability to move resources around in order to take opportunities as they emerge. This article describes the ingredients of an agile theory of adaptation and provides examples for how to do tactical planning in order to execute agility.

Adam Timlett
on Sep 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Retrospectives for Everyone

The book Retrospectives for Everyone by Madhavi Ledalla explains how metaphors can be used to foster reflection and result in actions in agile retrospectives. The book provides examples of metaphors that can for instance be used to nurture teamwork, manage change, focus on objectives and personal reflection, and also provides recommendations for facilitating retrospectives beyond a single team.

Ben Linders Madhavi Ledalla
on Aug 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Techlash

The book Techlash by Ian Mitroff and Rune Storesund explains why companies need to become socially responsible by considering the potential negative outcomes of technology. It explains how proactive crisis management can help prevent a crisis by the early detection and correction of deviations from expected conditions.

Ben Linders Ian Mitroff Rune Storesund
on Aug 26, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Dynamic Reteaming (2-ed)

In the 2nd edition of her book Dyanamic Reteaming, Heidi Helfand shows that having stable teams is generally unrealistic and that there are ways to effectively reform teams to achieve great outcomes. She explores different approaches to team formation and reformation and provides practical advice on how to create environments where team formation can adapt and evolve effectively.

Heidi Helfand Shane Hastie
on Aug 22, 2020

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