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What Does Company-Wide Agility Imply?
Self-organization, transparency, constant customer focus, and continuous learning: these are the four values that drive company-wide agility. InfoQ interviewed Jutta Eckstein and John Buck about how to apply a combination of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy to support these agile values, and what benefits this approach can bring.
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Soft Skill Patterns for Software Developers: The “Learning from Unintended Failures” Pattern
Soft Skill Patterns describe human behaviours that effectively solve recurring problems. The "Learning from Unintended Failures" pattern helps us improve the resilience of a system after a failure. The pattern follows 4 steps: identify a failure, quickly resolve any immediate impact, analyse root cause and system behaviour during the failure, and finally generate and implement improvement ideas.
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Scaling Agile - Master Planning Together
The first article in the series about making scaled agile work shared a true scaling agile story; the second article described the importance and the how-to’s of slicing your requirements into potential releasable epics. So now we’re ready to build on top of those slices and that common understanding; we’re ready to do the master planning together.
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How Self-Organization Happens
There isn't one specific pattern that emerges from self-organization. The processes are so deep and fundamental to human interactions that you cannot enforce any specific hierarchical or non-hierarchical pattern with rules. Trust between people is an outcome of allowing people to freely self-organize. Complex networks of trust emerge and change as people continuously negotiate their relationships.
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Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban
The book Practical Kanban provides solutions for typical problems that continually occur within Kanban implementations. It explains how you can create a Kanban system for the entire value creation chain to coordinate the work of teams.
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Culture: a Farming Tale
Culture and diversity are major factors for performance of a company, and influence its long-term success. Impacts include hiring practices, career development and direction, productivity, creativity, communication, and results. This discussion identifies cultural elements and their influence on behavior and production, and how diversity augments performance and company dynamics.
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Scaling Agile - Slice and Understand Together
This second article in the series about making scaled agile work digs into how to slice requirements. If this is done right, it will not only result in good slices, but also a common understanding of the product we’re about to build or enhance.
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Q&A on the Book Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile
The Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile explains how disciplined agile works at different levels in the organization. It provides a framework with principles and practices to help you to streamline information technology and business processes in a context-sensitive manner.
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Offshoring Agile When You Are a Startup
Working with an offshore partner becomes faster and cheaper as communication technologies continue to improve. It is possible to achieve agility with an offshore team as long as you understand the limitations. Although some of the principles from the agile manifesto are difficult to reconcile with offshoring, they can still be used as guidance to work effectively together.
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Q&A on "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide"
The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide answers questions that new and experienced developers often have in advancing their careers. Topics covered vary from learning technical skills, getting a job, and dealing with managers, to doing side projects or starting your own company.
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Improving Corporate Cognitive Performance in IT Organisations
The biggest tool in the software engineer’s toolkit is the brain, yet few organisations go out of their way to educate and create the conditions in which the brain can work at its best. Explore the different domains of the brain and their links to the performance of software engineers and see what organisations can do to create workplaces that propagate advanced levels of cognitive performance.
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Engineering Culture and Distributed Agile Teams
Franzen and Pahuja explain how a distributed agile framework can help distributed teams create an engineering culture based on over a decade of experience, and share actionable practices that help you get your distributed engineering tools and practices in place. Topics covered are devops, team structure, microservices, pair programming, T-shaped engineers, continuous integration and deployment.