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Q&A on The Host Leadership Field Book

The Host Leadership Field Book: Building Engagement for Performance and Results provides 30 cases and experiences from people who are applying host leadership in different settings. The book emerged from the 2019 Host Leadership Gathering, and was edited by Mark McKergow and Pierluigi Pugliese.

Mark McKergow Pierluigi Pugliese Ben Linders
on Jan 09, 2020
Culture & Methods

How King uses AI to test Candy Crush Saga

To be able to improve features in games which are constantly evolving, the challenge will be to scale tests to be on a par with new feature development. Automated tests are vital for King to keep up testing Candy Crush, therefore they are constantly looking for new improved ways to test.

Alexander Andelkovic
on Dec 30, 2019
Culture & Methods

A Transformation Journey for a Distributed Development Organization

Agile transformations are never easy, but are even more challenging than usual when it comes to geographically distributed teams. This article highlights experiences from Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub program and shares the methods that helped them on their journey. It's about the organization, processes, but most importantly, about the people and the mindset.

Burak Ilter
on Dec 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

How SwissLife France’s Enterprise Architects Used Lean to Raise Their Level of Influence

This article shows how Lean has been successfully applied to its own activities by an Enterprise Architecture team. Making the flow visible, loving problems and having fun solving them, and welcoming voice of the customer feedback were some of the practices that helped the team navigate the flow. Lean allowed them to better live to their purpose, both individually and as a team.

Christian Phan-Trong Pierre Marchand
on Dec 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Using Kanban with Overbård to Manage Development of Red Hat JBoss EAP

As planning the work for Red Hat JBoss EAP became harder and harder, Red Hat decided to adopt Kanban to make their development process more manageable, while maintaining a very high level of quality. They introduced Kanban in their distributed team and developed their own Jira add-on for visualizing the work, and added parallel tasks to their Kanban cards to simplify the workflow.

Ben Linders Dimitris Andreadis
on Nov 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

How to Tell Compelling Stories Using Data: Q&A with Dr. Christine Bailey

The more evidence we have, the more likely our ideas are believed - or so we’re conditioned to think . But data doesn’t always engage people; this is where storytelling can help to combine data, insights, and emotion, said Dr. Christine Bailey. She presented techniques to tell compelling stories with data, and showed how that can increase our influence with external and internal stakeholders.

Ben Linders Christine Bailey
on Sep 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Magic of Organizing around Customer Journeys - and How to do it

Organizing around the value delivered to the customer requires maturity in the organization that needs to be built up over time. This article describes eight typical steps that companies are taking in order to mature towards the end goal of becoming a true enterprise agile organization, and explains how to move up the ladder.

Ole Jepsen Maria Ebro Andreasen
on Sep 19, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0

The book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0 by Dominik Maximini is an experience report of the agile transformation journey of NovaTec. Maximini shares his experiences from applying principles and practices from Management 3.0, success stories, failure stories, and learnings from experiments.

Ben Linders Dominik Maximini
on Sep 14, 2019
Culture & Methods

Rediscovering Lean

For those who love continuous improvement, software engineering fits. Turn in any direction and you’ll see potential for doing better, going faster and increasing quality. You should not try to chase the latest and greatest agile practices. Instead, spend time working out your unique approach based on the goal you have been given, the people you have, and the underlying principles that you hold.

Kevin Duggan
on Jul 29, 2019
Culture & Methods

A Different Meaning of CI - Continuous Improvement, the Heartbeat of DevOps

This personal experience report shows that political in-house games and bad corporate culture are not only annoying and a waste of time, but also harm a lot of initiatives for improvement. Whenever we become aware of the blame game, we should address it! DevOps wants to deliver high quality. The willingness to make things better - products, processes, collaboration, and more - is vital.

Sabine Wojcieszak
on May 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

Cultivating a Learning Organisation

This article explores how creating an internal culture of experimentation and learning enabled a company to keep pace with the rapid iterations in tech that have become the regular way we do business. It shows that psychological safety is a key component of the learning organisation; employees need to be able to experiment and learn from any outcome - without fear that failure will be punished.

Andrea Dobson
on May 24, 2019
Culture & Methods

MOOtopia – Adapting the Spotify Model at MOO

The Spotify Model may be a good starting point, but you need to adapt it to suit your needs. This is the story of how MOO has adapted the organizational structure within Tech and Product based on the Spotify Model, and has then evolved that initial design into something that meets their current needs.

Claire Donald
on May 06, 2019

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