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Maps and Stories
Tal Klein discusses how to build maps using stories: establish a narrative based on historical truths, build upon shared experience, and avoid generalities and provide specifics.
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Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership
Aaron Blohowiak talks about Netflix’s model of the five levels of Ownership: Demonstration, Oversight, Observation, Execution and Vision. He shares his mistakes and what they have learned so far.
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The Most Important Things I Have Learnt This Year
Simon Powers shares what he learned from various Agile speakers teaching, coaching and coaching at Adventures with Agile.
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A Dark and Stormy Night: Operational Antipatterns
Kiran Bhattaram shares common operational antipatterns, useful tactics and stories learned in difficult situations.
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The Journey from Business Person to Product Owner
Pete Cohen and Chris Bignoux discuss how a new product owner should tackle Agile projects, exploring techniques for informing stakeholders and facilitating decision-making.
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Learnings from a Culture-First Start-up
Sunil Sadasivan talks about some of Buffer’s culture experiments to illustrate how cultivating and iterating on a team's culture can improve happiness, employee retention, and overall growth.
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Microservices: State of the Union
Adrian Cockcroft discusses success/failure stories of adopting microservices, overviews what’s next with microservices and presents some of the techniques that have led to successful deployments.
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Extreme Self-Management: an Alternative Path of Organizational Design
Pawel Brodzinski tells the story of Lunar Logic's journey to distributed autonomy, authority and leadership across the organization, and what it takes to become an extreme self-managed organization.
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Dumb Ways to Decide
Rob Pyne discusses the importance of the decision making process, providing guidance on how to make good decisions and examples of poorly made ones.
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Putting People First – Building and Sustaining Awesome Distributed Teams at Scale
Mike Breeze and Ma Qiang share the story of a distributed team and its Agile transformation, placing individuals and interactions over processes and tools and avoiding the dark side of Agile.
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Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify
Anders Ivarsson discusses how teams are autonomous at Spotify, how they are organized in squads, chapters, tribes and guilds, and how management and leadership works in their company.
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Spicing Up Agile Retrospectives
Ben Linders talks about the why and how of Agile retrospectives, with many practical tips, stories, and examples.