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Beyond Copy-Pasting Methods: Navigating Complexity
This article explores how you can try out a context-specific approach, which leads to a context-specific experience. Once we understand more about the complexity behind the problems which we are trying to solve with agile, we clarify the purpose of our agile practice. This is the starting point from which we can build a common focus and sense of priority within our agile culture.
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Why Software Estimation Is More Important Now Than Ever
In a world trending away from traditional waterfall and toward agile development methodologies, it would be understandable to assume that there is no longer a need for software project estimation. However, that assumption would be wrong - estimation is still a very valuable practice, even in organizations that are dependent upon agile development methodologies.
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Four Priceless Tactics to Create Top-Tier Homegrown Talent
With rapid shifts in work culture across the world, employers are revisiting their relationships with employees, putting their needs and aspirations first. Here’s how to align individual interests with business objectives, and use constant engagement, training, and feedback to take your company culture to the next level.
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Holacracy for Humans
Snapper, a New Zealand based transport ticketing service provider, wanted to be more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In 2016 they introduced Holacracy, which enables people to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of waiting to be told what to do. They use Holacracy across all areas of the business and this way of working applies to everyone.
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Top 10 Lessons in Building a Distributed Engineering Team
Recruiting, nurturing, and growing a distributed engineering team is no easy feat, but it is well worth the investment. Bruno shares key insights that shine a light on how to empower your team to do their best work, regardless of physical location.
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Distributed Agile Leadership
Even with the best of planning for your distributed Agile team, without good leadership in place, all of that planning can come to naught. With that in mind we look at some leadership trends that are relevant to self-organizing distributed Agile teams. Instead of proposing a new “Distributed Agile Leadership Framework”, our goal here is to inform you of important and relevant trends.
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Regression Testing Strategies: an Overview
However tedious, regression testing is a powerful gatekeeper protecting product quality. It is present in any project regardless of the development methodology. But how to organize it well? This calls for a quality regression testing strategy that requires good understanding of all aspects of this testing effort (types, methods and approaches). Find out more in our article.
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Growing an Innovative Culture
An innovative culture requires strong leaders who realise that changes in the culture start with themselves. To make innovation happen you need to consider the investment portfolio at enterprise level and focus on customers and the core operations.
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Q&A on the Book Improving Agile Retrospectives
The book Improving Agile Retrospectives by Marc Loeffler provides practices and approaches for doing agile retrospectives that support continuous improvement. According to Loeffler, agile retrospectives are workshops which need to be prepared and facilitated well in order to be beneficial to teams.
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PAL (Planned Agile Leadership) Schedule
Develop a PAL Schedule to harmonize agile methodologies with static package Go Live dates to enable a visual representation of planned project progress, enable the same methodologies used at an agile sprint level to control the project at a high level, act as a harness for quantifiable and measurable high-level deliverables, coordinate project activities and enrich meaningful communication.
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Advice on Starting Your Own Software Company
No matter how great your idea is, there are a lot of down-to-earth things which should be considered and carefully planned if you want to found a software company and ensure its survival. Why didn't Youtube’s predecessor ever get the success of today’s favorite? Why did the right time save Airbnb? To come up with a good idea and make it actually work are two different things.
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Q&A on the Book The Startup Way
The book The Startup Way by Eric Ries explores how large organizations can use startup techniques to innovate and accelerate growth. It provides methods for creating a transformation roadmap towards an entrepreneurial way of working: to experiment and collect data, roll out entrepreneurial ways of working throughout the organization, and tackle the supporting systems like legal, finance, and HR.