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Gamification: a Strategy for Enterprises to Enable Digital Product Practices

To embrace the changing needs of consumers, organizations are exploring new ways to ideate, collaborate and create products, some of them being embracing co-creation models, investment in long-term value, and fostering collective wisdom through gamification. This article shows how gamification helps to create perspective around product practices and bring us closer to next-generation products.

Garima Bajpai
on Sep 27, 2021
Culture & Methods

Resetting a Struggling Scrum Team Using Sprint 0

Sprint 0 can be a great mechanism in Agile transformations to reset existing teams which are not delivering value, exhibiting a lack of accountability, or struggling with direct collaboration with customers. This article shares the experiences from doing a Sprint 0 with an existing team which was struggling to deliver, helping them to align to a new product vision and become a stronger team.

Carly Richmond
on Sep 16, 2021
Culture & Methods

Leveraging Diversity to Enhance Cybersecurity

How can we ensure there is a diverse mindset applied to cybersecurity? By including non-technical people, those from non-traditional backgrounds, and being intentional about avoiding herd mentality. If we as an industry proclaim security as a best practice, we must equally ensure diversity to ensure we have most effectively mitigated the risks that abound.

Vidya Murthy
on Sep 10, 2021
Culture & Methods

Applying Genetic Engineering to Your Organization Culture

Common barriers to transformation value remain people, mindset, and organizational culture; they are so significant that they can halt any transformation from achieving meaningful delivery capabilities. Behavioral mechanisms can work as a sophisticated DNA blueprint that directs actions. This article explores mechanisms for DNA manipulation to apply the concepts in the organizational environment.

Liat Palace
on Sep 02, 2021
DevOps

Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

In a digital economy, VSM improved software deliveries support the businesses' other value stream improvement initiatives. In its modern reinvention, VSM software tools provide end-to-end and real-time access to data and analytical tools to help improve Flow across CI/CD and DevOps software delivery pipelines.

Gary Rupp
on Aug 17, 2021
Culture & Methods

Leveraging the Agile Manifesto for More Sustainability

This article explores what sustainability means exactly, the current status of sustainability of the major agile organizations (Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance), and the impact of software development on sustainability. The main focal point of this article is using the principles of the Agile Manifesto to guide actions that contribute to more sustainability.

Jutta Eckstein
on Aug 13, 2021
Culture & Methods

Improving Testability: Removing Anti-Patterns through Joint Conversations

Code is always testable, but the cost may be high, and the effort exhausting. We can change code to be highly testable by identifying anti-patterns and fixing them. And developers can make the code fit the test requirements, by having discussions with the testers who actually test it.

Gil Zilberfeld
on Aug 10, 2021
Culture & Methods

Thoughtfully Training SRE Apprentices: Establishing Padawan and Jedi Matches

This article shares how Padawans and Jedis can inspire and teach us how to help people of a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to observe and understand failures in production. It covers practical lessons learned and shares how you can create and rollout a program for SRE Apprentices within your organization. It also shares feedback from the SRE Apprentices themselves.

Tammy Bryant Butow
on Aug 04, 2021
Culture & Methods

A Journey in Test Engineering Leadership: Applying Session-Based Test Management

This article shows how modifying Session-based Test Management to our context helped us gain more visibility into our testing. Having a structured yet flexible approach to test management allowed us to make better, more timely decisions about the testing, and gave us more opportunities to influence quality decisions earlier in the process.

Djuka Selendic
on Aug 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

GitHub’s Journey from Monolith to Microservices

This article explores GitHub's recent journey towards a microservices architecture. It takes a deeper look at GitHub’s historical and current state, goes over some internal and external factors, and discusses practical consideration points in how Github tackled their migration, including key concepts and best practices of implementing microservices architecture.

Sha Ma
on Jul 28, 2021
Cloud

How to Bridge the Gap between Netops and Secops for Ultimate Network Management and Security

Sometimes it can seem like a new IT management paradigm arrives every week. First, we had DevOps; then DevSecOps; now the most innovative organizations are talking about AIOps and even NetAIOps. Yet what is often forgotten about in this rush to name new ways of working is that many of them have been in place in the best-run teams for decades - a great example of this is NetOps and SecOps.

Sam Bocetta
on Jul 27, 2021
Culture & Methods

How to Work Better Together: Building DEI Awareness in Tech

We have a diversity problem in technology. Many of our visions and standards of success are centered around one group of people, even though there are many groups contributing to global advancement and growth. The main reason for this is legacy, similar to legacy code. We can overcome this inherited debt by educating ourselves and planning time to do work to rebuild and replace our “legacy code”.

Quintessence Anx
on Jul 26, 2021