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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.

Mark McKergow Pierluigi Pugliese Ben Linders
on Jan 09, 2020
Culture & Methods

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.

Shane Hastie Jim Highsmith Linda Luu David Robinson
on Jan 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

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.

Alexander Andelkovic
on Dec 30, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Creating your Dojo

Dion Stewart & Joel Tosi have written a book about creating a dojo to help teams get better at delivering software products. A dojo is an immersive learning environment where whole teams improve their practices on a range of skills. Dojos are more effective than traditional classroom learning because the whole team works together in the context of their own product and organization.

Dion Stewart Joel Tosi
on Dec 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

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.

Burak Ilter
on Dec 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

Product Goals, not Sprint Goals

There is a myth that Sprint Goals are a way to focus Scrum teams towards a common purpose, and without Sprint Goals, teams would end up building a disparate list of Product Backlog Items, every Sprint. This is in fact not only untrue, the reality is the exact opposite, that Sprint Goals are in fact a distraction and would only deliver parts of Product Goals.

Mahesh Krshnan
on Dec 21, 2019
Culture & Methods

How SwissLife France’s Enterprise Architects Used Lean to Raise Their Level of Influence

This article shows how Lean has been successfully applied to its own activities by an Enterprise Architecture team. Making the flow visible, loving problems and having fun solving them, and welcoming voice of the customer feedback were some of the practices that helped the team navigate the flow. Lean allowed them to better live to their purpose, both individually and as a team.

Christian Phan-Trong Pierre Marchand
on Dec 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Building Digital Experience Platforms

The book Building Digital Experience Platforms by Shailesh Kumar and Sourabhh Sethii describes methods, techniques, and practices for using digital experience platforms (DXP) and provides a digital transformation case study from a banking application.

Ben Linders Shailesh Kumar Sourabhh Sethii
on Dec 14, 2019
Culture & Methods

How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free

There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem

Stephen Bungay Antoine Merour
on Dec 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

Great People Deserve Great Managers: Managers Effectiveness Index at Kronos Incorporated

Kronos transformed their managers’ capability by introducing a Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI), which consists of codifying the role of managers and measuring their effectiveness. The company turned their employees’ performance process upside down by asking their employees to rate their managers’ performance and effectiveness twice a year.

Shaaron A Alvares David Almeda
on Dec 08, 2019
Development

InfoQ Editors' Recommended Talks from 2019

As part of the 2019 end-of-year-summary content, this article collects together a list of recommended presentation recordings from the InfoQ editorial team.

Charles Humble Ben Linders Arthur Casals Manuel Pais Erik Costlow Shane Hastie Shaaron A Alvares Srini Penchikala Michael Redlich Steef-Jan Wiggers Daniel Bryant
on Dec 06, 2019
Development

InfoQ's 2019, and Software Predictions for 2020

We take a look back at what we saw on InfoQ in 2019, and think about what the next year might bring.

Charles Humble Erik Costlow Arthur Casals Daniel Bryant Bruno Couriol Ben Linders Shane Hastie
on Dec 06, 2019

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