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Centralized vs. Decentralized Coaching

What is the difference between Centralized and Decentralized Coaching? What is more effective and under what organizational conditions can effectiveness be seen? Which approach is more susceptible to potential system gaming and other organizational dysfunctions? Why? Is coaching alignment (centralized vs. decentralized) and coaching focus (team vs. enterprise) - the same thing?

Gene Gendel
on May 20, 2018
Culture & Methods

Kanban Step-by-Step Guide: from 3-Columns to Flexible Board Design

Implementing Kanban seems rather simple, but making the most of the method is possible only for those willing to experiment with their workflow and walk the extra mile of reflecting the test results into the actual steps. See the most common stages of Kanban implementation and learn how to advance your workflow visualization and control as you increase your proficiency with the method.

Alex Novkov
on May 16, 2018
Culture & Methods

Psychological Safety in Training Games

Games can be safe places where people can learn lessons experientially under controlled circumstances and generate insights that can be applied to their daily work. Sometimes though, games can get too personal and uncomfortable. A facilitator can create safety mechanisms for these games, including making it easy and safe for people to opt-in and opt-out.

Ben Linders
on May 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Software Wasteland

Almost all Enterprise Information Systems now cost vastly more to implement than they should. When you have hundreds or thousands of complex applications, you are stuck in the Application Centric Quagmire. In the book Software Wasteland Dave McComb explores what is causing application development waste and how visualizing the cost of change and becoming data-centric can help to reduce the waste.

Ben Linders
on May 07, 2018
Culture & Methods

Coaching with Curiosity Using Clean Language and Agile

Clean Language questions are bias-free questions. They can be used to discover the underlying rules, expressed values, and coping mechanisms in organizations, and to gain clarity and promote diverse ideas in groups. Simple to learn, but tricky to implement, clean questions require transparency and sharing a bit more of one’s thinking than usual.

Ben Linders
on May 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

A Quick Guide to Implementing ATDD

Collaboration is one of the core values of Agile Methodology. That being said, what happens when you notice lack of collaboration between developers, testers and business-minded individuals in agile teams? This article provides a quick guide to implementing Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in your projects to mitigate problems due to lack of collaboration.

Raj Subrameyer
on May 02, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Lost and Founder

The book Lost and Founder contains startup stories from Rand Fishkin. In the book he describes the ups and downs from starting and managing a company, and shares the lessons that he learned. InfoQ interviewed him about being transparent, minimum viable products and pivoting, raising capital and funding a tech startup, and asked him what he would do differently when starting another company.

Ben Linders
on Apr 29, 2018
Development

Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas

The traditional Oil and Gas Industry is being transformed by a new wave of digital disruptive technologies. To remain profitable, oil and gas companies must consider how to gain operational efficiencies through improved use of technology, such as cloud platforms, and process, such as the adoption of agile methodologies. This article explores challenges within implementing these technologies

Md Tahir Rekha Kodali
on Apr 28, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations

The book Kanban Maturity Model by David Anderson and Teodora Bozheva provides a model that organizations can use to assess their maturity and define a roadmap to improve business agility using Kanban practices and values. It's a body of knowledge for coaches and organizations on sustainable change, cultures of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome.

Ben Linders
on Apr 26, 2018
Culture & Methods

Culture and Diversity - Why They Belong Together in Every Tech Organization

Culture and diversity can help a company’s bottom line, so it’s not surprising that organizations and their executive boards are focusing on ways to encourage inclusion. This article will look at specific benefits of diversity, and ways to encourage inclusion, essentially by allowing multiple voices to share in the story of the company.

Manny Segarra III Susan McIntosh
on Apr 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

Engineering Culture Revived: The Key to Digital Transformation

Teams can create their environment for sustainable development to enable innovative insights into what and how to deliver. Team managers must anticipate the need for continuous improvement and renewal, or else face the interference of a ’top-down’ driven ‘digital transformation’ that frustrates software engineering practice. It’s time for teams to reclaim the practice of software engineering.

Ben Linders
on Apr 20, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Management

The book Agile Management by Mike Hoogveld explores how the agile principles and values can be implemented in an agile way to improve the flexibility and entrepreneurship within organizations. It shows how the “voice of the customer” should be the starting point for designing the products, services, channels and processes you offer to your customers.

Ben Linders
on Apr 14, 2018

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