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Accelerating Agile: Hyper-performing without the Hype
Dan North shares insight on how high-performing teams work, the patterns and ideas being genuine experiences from practitioners. This is Agile in actuality. Agile is an attitude, not a rule book.
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Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar, Again
David Hussman combats the addiction to a specific process, discussing various topics such as product thinking, regression deficit, building teams and connecting programs to portfolios.
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Experience Report: Growing eXtreme Programming Teams
Rachel Davies reports on how Unruly Media is using XP and how they have adapted to increasing scalability needs.
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Generation Minecraft - Kids Building Software
Seth Schroeder discusses how adults can motivate kids to create stuff on a computer rather than just consuming it, and shares the approach that has worked in his family.
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Instrumenting Your Business For Success with DevOps
Robert Benefield offers a pragmatic overview for discovering operational indicators that provide valuable insight in running and improving online services.
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A/B Testing: Lessons Learned at Spotify
Danielle Jabin shares some of Spotify's key takeaways from their A/B testing efforts and the challenges they faced in building out their A/B testing infrastructure.
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DevOps at a Small International Bank - Contiguous Improvement over Continuous Delivery
Ola Ellnestam shares lessons learned and DevOps practices along with the underlying values and principles used to implement continuous improvement and delivery at a large bank.
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Methodology Patterns: a Different Approach to Create a Methodology for Your Project
Giovanni Asproni suggests that teams should not blindly embrace a methodology but rather create their own suiting their specific needs by using an approach based on patterns and pattern languages.
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Performance Appraisals - The Bane of Agile Teams
Mike Mallete discusses the why performance appraisals fail and what can be done instead.
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The Art of the Retrospective
Chris Smith provides practical advice for sprint retrospectives, gathering information and identifying root causes of both problems and successes, and addressing issues from a different perspective.
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The Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment
Chris Chapman teaches delivering software without estimates through the Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment, asking the participants to collaboratively build a jigsaw puzzle.
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The EPAM Way Managing from 0 to the Dow Jones
Attila Bozso, Balazs Fejes share their experiences about growing EPAM’s Hungarian presence from zero to almost a thousand employees: startup process, recruiting talent, building middle management, etc