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Humanity at Work: Interview with Rich Sheridan, Author of Chief Joy Officer
Richard Sheridan describes the importance of joy and humanity in the workplace and how it contributes to increasing employees' job satisfaction and engagement. Joy has always been important for employees, and today even more as we are welcoming new generations of workers.
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Q&A on the Book Gamification for Business
The book Gamification for Business by Sune Gudiksen and Jake Inlove explores the usage of games for effectively tackling business challenges and improving organizational performance. It provides results from research on gamification, case studies of game-based solutions, and the benefits that serious games and design thinking can bring.
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Q&A on the Book Virtual Leadership
The book Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams by Penny Pullan provides suggestions and practices for people working in or with virtual teams. It discusses leadership styles suitable for virtual or remote teams and explores what can be done to improve collaboration and communication, and engage remote participants.
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The Pipeline Driven Organization - Enabling True Continuous Delivery
Many organizations try to implement continuous integration or continuous delivery, but they get stuck in the process; too many human bottlenecks standing between the pipelines. By teaching pipelines to make better decisions and offloading human judgements onto the pipelines we can have the pipelines make decisions all the way up to production to create a true continuous delivery mechanism.
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Author Q&A: from Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams
Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby have written a book titled From Chaos to Successful Distributed Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. The book provides advice for anyone working in or with a distributed team on how to overcome the common (and some uncommon) challenges that distribution and distance bring to effective team collaboration.
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How to Effectively Lead Remote IT teams
When you build your software product or implement a digital platform, there are many things you need to consider – like product design, technology stack, architecture, etc. . And many times we forget, that at the end the most crucial part is the team that will work together to deliver it.
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How Developers Can Learn the Language of Business Stakeholders
This article explores how business stakeholders and developers can improve their collaboration and communication by learning each other's language and dictionaries. It explores areas where there can be the most tension: talking about impediments and blockers, individual and team learning, real options, and risk management.
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The Agile Manifesto: A Software Architect's Perspective
While the role and responsibilities of a software architect can be seen as contradictory to the values of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, a good architect finds techniques that support an agile development team.
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Q&A on the Book Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership
The book Applied Empathy by Michael Ventura explores how understanding people and learning about their perspectives can help us to lead with empathy. Questions are more important than answers; as leaders we should look for ways to connect with our customers and employees, and listen more and talk less.
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Q&A on A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game
In A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game, Jeff Sutherland and James Coplien explore how to do Scrum well using patterns. There are more than ninety patterns which provide insight into Scrum’s building blocks, how they work, and how highly effective teams use them.
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Q&A on the Book Empathy at Work
The book Empathy at Work by Sharon Steed explores the role empathy plays in team communication and interaction, and provides tools to help people become better empaths in difficult situations. It describes the steps we can take in order to show empathy daily and contribute to a healthy, collaborative, positive work culture.
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Power to the People: Unleashing Teams through Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures are a great way for teams to find their voice. They make this happen by asking us to think creatively about the kinds of invitations we are making, and by subverting the normal power dynamics in a meeting. In this article, Greg Myer shares how he is using Liberating Structures at Capital One.