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Agyle with a Y – Making Agile Work for Millennials
Carmel Dolev discusses the Y generation’s characteristics, and covers practical tools and advice on how to enable them to thrive in an agile environment.
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How to Organize Ethical QA Rules in an Organization
Michal Buczko proposes that the QA department must play a strong role in defining the ethics of an organization.
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Using Safe and Brave Spaces to Stimulate Change
Jem Djelal discusses the difference between a safe space and a brave one, how to distinguish between them, the pros & cons, how to move from a safe to a brave space, and patterns to use.
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The Changing Role of a Leader When Scaling Agile
Nick Winwright discusses the changes he as a leader has gone through to scale from 15 Scrum teams to 27 in three years.
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Developer Effectiveness: Optimizing Feedback Loops
Tim Cochran presents research gathered from ThoughtWorks' varied clients and projects and shows some of the metrics they have identified as guides to creating the culture for high performing teams.
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How to Supercharge a Team with Delegation
James Stanier talks about the concept of delegation and shows how to use it to effectively delegate tasks as an individual contributor and a manager in a way that improves the whole team.
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Hallway Testing - Cool Face of Usability Testing
Ewa Marchewka discusses good practices in hallway testing, who should be involved and how, what projects can benefit from this technique, when to use it, and what to avoid.
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Is Your Culture Agile-Friendly or Agile-Repellent?
Zak Meziane takes an interactive journey into the key components of an agile friendly culture, such as psychological safety and trust, and explores ways to develop a framework for cultural change.
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Ship Fast and Pay Attention: Five Lessons in Applying Observability
Dan Abel shares lessons learned from shipping more often with fewer tests, and how that built a better system for their users.
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Reflecting on a Life Watching Movies and a Career in Security
Jason Chan talks about some trends in the movie industry that relate well to similar changes in technology and security.
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Should We Really Run It if We Build It?
"Build it, run it" is the war-cry of the startup and scale up industry. Is it really that simple? Are there hidden costs like engineer burnout? And do B2B & B2C companies have different prerogatives?
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Stop Talking & Listen; Practices for Creating Effective Customer SLOs
Cindy Quach discusses some of the common pitfalls that arise from collecting and analyzing service data such as only using 'out-of-the-box' metrics and not having feedback loops.