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Working Remotely: Good Practices and Useful Resources

As the impact of COVID-19 continues around the world, many people will be experiencing a sustained period of remote working for the first time. To help you, we’ve collated good remote working practices and resources and will continue to do so as more emerge. While remote working may appear straightforward, there are common issues that come up as you shift to this way of working.

Shane Hastie Charles Humble
on Jul 23, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Think for Yourself

The book Think for Yourself by Vikram Mansharamani provides a balanced approach to working with experts to help us deal with uncertainty. Instead of outsourcing our thinking to experts, we should tap into appropriate expertise when needed. Multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches can be used to see the whole picture and stay on top of things.

Ben Linders Vikram Mansharamani
on Jul 21, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Conversations

The book Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick explores how productive conversations can change the way organizations develop software. It provides techniques and exercises that can help you gain insight into communication and collaboration issues and improve your day-to-day conversations, achieving valuable business results from your agile team.

Ben Linders Douglas Squirrel Jeffrey Fredrick
on Jul 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

Agile Initiative Planning with Roadmaps

Most “agile” initiatives fail to meet their value, time and budget goals despite spending ½ their time and 1⁄3 of their budget designing and planning upfront. Agile Initiative Roadmaps add product, project, architecture and UX planning to initiatives so that you can take a longer view with a small amount of time and effort, which means that you can deliver benefits much sooner at a lower cost.

Murray Robinson
on Jul 09, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Cyber Warfare

The book Cyber Warfare by Dr. Chase Cunningham explores how organizations can defend themselves against cyber attacks. It provides examples of actual attacks together with defense techniques, tools, and strategies for cybersecurity.

Ben Linders Chase Cunningham
on Jul 07, 2020
Culture & Methods

How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2020: an Industry Insight

The IT outsourcing industry is very volatile and each year we see new trends reshaping the sector. In 2020, we see some outsourcing practices coming up and others getting stronger. At the same time, we also see some of the prominent outsourcing practices becoming obsolete. This article looks at how the outsourcing industry is changing and getting prepared to embrace the change.

Swati Sharma
on Jul 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager

The book Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager by James Stanier explores how to manage engineers and what managers can do to build and run effective teams. It helps people decide if they want to go from an engineering to a manager role and organize and improve their management activities.

Ben Linders James Stanier
on Jun 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

Silos, Politics and Delivering Software Products

Technical teams tend to be unprepared for politics. This leads to political problems being either accepted as tragically inevitable or written off as due to the incompetence of others. Politics in business emerges when direction is not set with sufficient clarity. Better understanding the causes of politics helps understand how best to either resolve or navigate politics in software projects.

Ryan Dawson Laura Edwards
on Jun 25, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Leading Lean

Leading Lean by Jean Dahl describes a journey that leaders can embark on to respond to disruptive change. It leads them through the six dimensions of leading self, others, the customer, and the enterprise, by creating an innovative culture that delivers value. It provides not just the theory behind Modern Lean, but also practical methods, tools, strategies, and case studies.

Ben Linders Jean Dahl
on Jun 23, 2020
Culture & Methods

Building a Scale-Ready MVP

In these times of turmoil, information technology is a strategic asset to weather the difficult times ahead. Companies launch projects to build digital products and seize new opportunities, but even with strong pressure to release as fast as possible, beware of the pitfalls of an unsustainable MVP. Building an MVP that is scale-ready takes careful consideration and disciplined practices.

Régis Medina Michael Ballé Fabrice Bernhard Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle
on Jun 19, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Leveraging Digital Transformation

The book Leveraging Digital Transformation - Proven Leadership and Innovation Strategies to Engage and Grow Your Organization by M. Nadia Vincent is a guide for implementing digital transformations. It explores how to lead a digital transformation, how to engage people into the transformation, and what can be done to enable digitalization and innovation.

Ben Linders M. Nadia Vincent
on Jun 16, 2020
Culture & Methods

Working Together in the Same Direction with Obeya

Obeya1 is a proven approach that facilitates teamwork and the alignment of activities around seven panels to deliver IT or manufacturing products. It accelerates the regular resolution of good problems by breaking down barriers between teams and it also benefits from the support of the management. The purpose of this article describes the first Obeya panel: vision

Edmond Nguyen Reynald Debaut-Henocque
on Jun 14, 2020

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