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Setting Up a Virtual Office for Remote Teams
Adopting a virtual office model saves a business $11,000+ annually per employee. It’s also one of the best answers to employees’ growing demands for mobility. Whether you’re considering a virtual office environment for several employees or a whole team, implement these strategies to ensure managers’ peace of mind and the top productivity of remote workers.
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Q&A on the Book Remote Mob Programming
In the book Remote Mob Programming: At home, but not alone, Simon Harrer, Jochen Christ, and Martin Huber share their experience doing mob programming while working from home for over a year.
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Data-Driven Decision Making – Product Management with Hypotheses
The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Product Management, hypotheses can be used to steer the effectiveness of product decisions about feature prioritization.
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Using OKRs to Build Autonomous Impact Teams
To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams.
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Three Key Success Factors for Improving Test Automation Outcomes
Test automation is crucial in the DevOps world and vitally important even if not taking a DevOps approach, and good test automation requires careful thought and design from the architecture onward. Tests need to be fully automated, and that automation needs to be stable; no test cases should fail for reasons other than issues in the system(s) under test.
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Q&A on the Book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace
The book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace by Shailesh Shivakumar explains what employee experience platforms (EXP) are and how digital technologies can be used to improve employee productivity, increase employee engagement, and support collaboration.
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5 IT Operations Cost Traps and How to Avoid Them
Decisions during the initial development or integration phase for new solutions impact future operations and maintenance costs heavily, no matter whether your organisation follows an DevOps, #noprojects, or project vs. operations philosophy. Explore cost pitfalls related to wrong funding expectations or tensions between stakeholders - and why you waste money without a simplistic cost model.
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Q&A on the Book Quantum Leadership
The book Quantum Leadership by Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo brings to light the power of direct-intuitive practices – such as meditation, nature immersion, art, and exercise – to transform a leader’s consciousness to the highest point of leverage for entrepreneurial creativity that embeds social purpose.
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Q&A on The Host Leadership Field Book
The Host Leadership Field Book: Building Engagement for Performance and Results provides 30 cases and experiences from people who are applying host leadership in different settings. The book emerged from the 2019 Host Leadership Gathering, and was edited by Mark McKergow and Pierluigi Pugliese.
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Q&A on the Book EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
In the book EDGE: Value-driven Digital Transformation, the authors explain why and how every business today needs to become a digital business with technology at the core. They explain six principles and a variety of practices that organisations can apply to survive and thrive on the creative edge where value is generated.
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How King uses AI to test Candy Crush Saga
To be able to improve features in games which are constantly evolving, the challenge will be to scale tests to be on a par with new feature development. Automated tests are vital for King to keep up testing Candy Crush, therefore they are constantly looking for new improved ways to test.
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A Transformation Journey for a Distributed Development Organization
Agile transformations are never easy, but are even more challenging than usual when it comes to geographically distributed teams. This article highlights experiences from Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub program and shares the methods that helped them on their journey. It's about the organization, processes, but most importantly, about the people and the mindset.