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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.
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Using Quality Views to Tackle Tech Debt @Tesla
Colin Breck discusses how quality views may help improve communication in support of tackling technical debt in an organization.
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The Role of the CTO in Product & Platform Development
Simon Raik-Allen shares from his experience as a CTO, building great products and guiding hundreds of engineers.
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Evolving from Waterfall to Agile Strategic Planning in a Social Services Agency
Dan Montgomery shares Five Acres’ experience implementing Agile in a 128-years old social services agency.
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Beyond Budgeting – Business Agility the C-level Understand (and Are Starting to Like)
Bjarte Bogsnes shares the Beyond Budgeting principles and implementation advice, plus Statoil’s experience implementing this methodology.
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The Technologist’s Guide to Hitchhiking
Seb Rose keynotes on the role of serendipity in a developer’s career, how to loosen up and how to make one’s own luck.