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Leadership and Technology – Past, Present and Future
Nigel Cushion discusses the relationship between leadership and technology, how technology is making “management” obsolete but leaders are still needed as they always have been.
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Self-Service APIs for Digital Transformation and Open Innovation
Thierry Gaillet discusses creating an API that leads the digital transformation and innovation process in a company based on his experience at Orange.
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Moving Past the Scaling Myth
Michael Feathers examines the notion of scale variant structuring and what systems design could look like without the assumption that structural reorganization at different scales is not necessary.
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Delivering Value While behind Enemy Lines
Matt Barrett talks about how his team at Adaptive Financial Consulting manages to get things done in the face of huge cultural resistance while maintaining their own engineering culture.
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The 22000 Persons Start-up
Paul Cobban shares his insights into the transformational journey DBS Bank has taken to emerge as a more agile organization, replicating a start-up environment for a 22000 employee organization.
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Forming Self-Selected Teams - How to Create Happy, Empowered, and Effective Teams
Amber King and Jesse Huth share from their experience at Opower where 40 engineers were allowed to self-select six teams that would work on new projects.
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INVESTing in User Stories
Seb Rose explores what a good user story looks like, discussing the INVEST acronym to see if there is a replacement that describes the key elements of a good user story in a less ambiguous language.
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The Holistic Detective Hunt for Great Tech Culture
Doug Talbot talks about the key elements of the organizational complexity puzzle, why it’s so important, what patterns to choose from, what changes they have driven in Ocado Technology, etc.
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Evolving the Engineering Culture @Criteo
Manu Cupcic shares Criteo’s definition of engineering culture, describing its key elements, and elaborating on how it evolved over time.
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Tips for Creating a More Equal Workplace
Kate Heddleston talks about what institutional bias is, why it’s a problem, and how it manifests in the workplace.
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Leadership Agility in a VUCA World
Nick Horney discuses leadership agility, backing his stories with data gathered from thousands of leaders and showing where the typical strengths and weaknesses are in developing leadership agility.
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A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt
Adam Tornhill offers an overview of techniques that help uncover both problematic code and the social dimension of the teams that build software. He illustrates each point with a case study.