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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 485 Followers
Decision Making in a Company with No Managers
Self-managed companies are emerging as a viable option for the future of work. The transformation from standard hierarchical organisation to a flat structure is definitely beneficial, but obviously a challenging process. This article explores how SoftwareMill, a Polish software house, did it.
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Patterns for Microservice Developer Workflows and Deployment: Q&A with Rafael Schloming
Drawing on his experience with developing a microservices application at Datawire in 2013, Rafael Schloming argues that one of the most important — although often ignored — questions a development lead should ask is "How do I break up my monolithic process?" as the development process is critical to establishing and maintaining velocity.
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Culture & Methods Culture & Methods Follow 485 Followers
Holacracy for Humans
Snapper, a New Zealand based transport ticketing service provider, wanted to be more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In 2016 they introduced Holacracy, which enables people to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of waiting to be told what to do. They use Holacracy across all areas of the business and this way of working applies to everyone.
Q&A on the Book The Age of Surge
The book The Age of Surge describes the Digital Wave Model which companies can use to disrupt organizational structures and business functions and re-create them to fit the digital landscape.
Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report - January 2018
At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics which are important to the community at the beginning of 2018.
Q&A with Dan Szuc and Jo Wong on Make Meaningful Work
Raf Gemmail speaks with UX leaders Dan Szuc and Josephine Wong about Make Meaningful Work, a humanistic framework and set of practices born from applying human-centered design to the workplace.
What Does Company-Wide Agility Imply?
Explore how to apply Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy to support values that drive company-wide agility: Self-organization, transparency, constant customer focus, and continuous learning.
Engineering Culture and Distributed Agile Teams
Franzen and Pahuja explain how their distributed agile framework can help distributed teams create an engineering culture, and actionable engineering practices and tools to work across the globe.
The Role and Importance of Communication in Post-Hierarchical Leadership
This article points out fundamentals of post-hierarchic management and leadership and underlines how corporate communications can act as a catalyst to foster and enable such a new paradigm.
