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A View from the Trenches: the C-Suite’s Role in Organizational Transformation
The attributes of an Agile approach – flexibility, predictability, quality, and speed to market are priorities for all successful businesses. Why then, are organizational transformations a challenge for most? The answer often lies with company leadership and an inability to lead the massive cultural shift necessary for a successful company-wide transformation.
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Rethinking Lean Startup at a Big Corporate
To achieve digital transformation, a company can build a "lab" or do it with its capabilities. Michael Nir explains how he coaches such a transformation for a Fortune 100 Insurance Provider Company, the steps and requirements to start, the first achievements, the role of managers and the pitfalls they fell into.
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Robot Says "Culture" - Moving towards Teal
Culture is something to be cultivated, something which will grow and evolve and must be cared for and nurtured. Most organizations today are stuck in an orange state of consciousness and culture. Let's explore the teal breakthroughs in self-management, evolutionary purpose and wholeness, and see how implementing teal-type working can lead to significant productivity and profitability gains.
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Transforming from Projects to Products
Agile Transformation is much harder than most organisations envisage, and can require a major cultural change for the transformation to be effective. Too often we make superficial changes but continue the same behaviour with minor changes to processes to appear agile. But without a change in mindset we fail to see the true impact an Agile Transformation can really have.
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The Computest Story: The Transformation to an Agile Enterprise
This article explores how Computest followed their mission towards a self-managing organization. It explains the key drivers, how the journey got started, why Computest focused on value streams and how Computest aligned roles and responsibilities and applied Kanban to operationalize ideas. It also shares the lessons learned so far and discusses what this means for the next steps to be done.
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Tech Employee Job Satisfaction: What Can Data Tell Us?
Overall job satisfaction levels at some of the world’s biggest tech companies have been charted by Payscale against various employee metrics, including early career pay rate, average workforce age and total years of industry experience. The results make for interesting reading – but do they say more about the tech industry itself, or the millennials flocking to work in it?
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The Ultimate Feedback Loop: Learning from Customer Reported Defects
Investigating the root causes of customer reported defects will have a great impact on your organization. The best ways to ensure customer satisfaction, lower costs and increase employee engagement is to look inside — you already have the data. At the end, it’s all about continuous improvement.
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Escaping Method Prison
Methods are our best tool to get great software. But today they put us in method prisons with method wars, reliance on gurus and swings from method to method. How foolish is this? It needs to be stopped. The new Essence standard efficiently stops that path. And, teams get better methods, selected from a practice library and support in their daily work. Executives get forever learning org’s.
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Q&A on the Book Sense and Respond
The book Sense and Respond provides ideas for executives, managers and business line leaders to leverage the power of technology to build more successful businesses. Authors Jeff Gothelf and Joshua Seiden explain how you can use experimentation and learning and continuous market feedback to deliver valuable products to customers, and manage teams on outcomes and foster effective collaboration.
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Introducing Reladomo - Enterprise Open Source Java ORM, Batteries Included! (Part 2)
Goldman Sachs is widely known as a leader in investment banking, but they are very much a leading technology firm as well. Continuing our exploration of Reladomo, the primary Java ORM used at GS and now open source, GS Technology Fellow, Mohammad Rezaei looks at advanced features, such as sharding, caching, bitemporal access, performance, and testing.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Enterprise
In the book Agile Enterprise, Mario Moreira explores the end-to-end and top-to-bottom view needed to run an effective agile enterprise, focusing on the needs of customers and employees. He explains how cutting-edge and innovative concepts and practices can be incorporated into a robust agile and customer value-driven framework.
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Q&A on the Book It's All Upside Down
In the book It's all Upside Down, Paul McMahon provides stories from software development teams supported by upside down principles and coaching tips for applying them. He explains how you can use Essence to improve processes leading to better organizational performance.