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What is Blocking Adoption of Servant Leadership
Although the world has changed we still worship ideas from ancient management heroes says Tomasz Wykowski. Our behavior changes quite slowly. To get servant leadership adopted in organizations you need to start from yourself and be an example. Give trust to people and respect them, and invite them to change.
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Improving Quality and Delivery Speed with DevOps Teams
You can increase the quality of products by constantly increasing the level of automation of the delivery process and working with DevOps teams who constantly deliver small features to get quick customer feedback. A case story from ING Lease explaining the problems they had, experiences from the first steps of their agile and DevOps journey and exploring what they want to achieve in the future.
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Measuring Success in Agile Organizations
Matthew Badgley, shares ten tips for measuring agile success in a recent VersionOne blog based on the 9th annual State of Agile Survey.
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Decision Making Strategies of No Estimates
Debbie Madden and Vasco Duarte share their views on no-estimates.
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Taking Back Agile
Tim Ottinger and Ruud Wijnands gave a talk at QCon London 2015 on how to take back the agility of the initial times of XP and why part of it has been lost in the way.
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Adoption of Agile in Eastern Europe
The gap in agile adoption between Eastern Europe and the US and Western Europe is becoming smaller. Scrum is the most widespread framework, Kanban adoption is growing and SAFe, LeSS, DAD are trending. The way that companies are transitioning to agile is significantly different in Eastern Europe.
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How Testers Can Make Organizations More Successful
Tester should go beyond their testing discipline and go into the organization. By asking questions they can start a movement that increases product quality and helps organizations to become more successful as Mike Sutton explained in his closing keynote at the Agile Testing Day Netherlands 2015 about test beyond quality – beyond software.
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Portia Tung on Using Play to Make Good Teams Great
In advance of the Playcamp London event to be held on 24 March, InfoQ had the opportunity to chat with Portia Tung, consultant, storyteller and games maker about how she combines business strategies with play to bring about positive organizational change.
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Overcoming the Challenges of Agile Business Intelligence
Tony Kenney, Partner at C3 Business Solutions, explains how to get success in agile business intelligence projects.
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Importance of Courageous Communicators in Agile Organizations
It is very important to have courageous communicators in agile teams. Senior leadership should support the role of courageous communicators.
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Potential of Social Capital in Organizations
“After 100 years of building organizations and 50 years of HRM, the future of work now lies in mastering the art of engaging and developing social capital of our organizations” says Bart Cambré, Director of Research at Antwerp Management School. At the No Pants Festival 2015 he talked about unleashing the full potential of social capital in organizations.
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Why BDD Can Save Agile
Matt Wynne, founder at Cucumber Ltd spoke at QCon London 2015 on how BDD can leverage the benefits of Agile on teams struggling with common patterns like lack of predictability, communication and quality.
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Being a Part of Great Scrum Team
This post talks about how does it feel to be a part of great scrum team.
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How to Use Metrics to Influence an Agile Environment
Larry Maccherone, a Data Scientist at Tasktop Technologies, gave a talk at QCon London 2015 regarding the importance of metrics usage and how they should influence important decisions in the organizations.
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Luke Hohmann on Incorporating Play into Work
InfoQ recently had the opportunity to chat with Innovation Games inventor Luke Hohmann about his love of incorporating play into work and his roots in the agile community. Luke is keynoting Playcamp London on 24 March, a community-driven conference for exploring how serious games and collaborative play are being used in the business world.