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Nordstrom’s 114-year-old Culture in the Tech Era
Sarah Lake Hagan explains what NorDNA is, how they introduced this concept to the Nordstrom Technology teams, and shows concrete examples of how the employees have embraced this culture.
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Collaborative Development: DevOps is Not Enough
Jim Benson notices that some organizations keep their silos and have even created a DevOps one, suggesting that what is needed is a UXDevQAOPS group or simply Collaborative Development.
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Redefining Failure at Yammer
Nate Fink shares how Yammer has changed everything from how they structure teams to the role of managers to how they measure progress so they can not only survive but thrive learning.
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Your Design is Only Mostly Dead
Steve Rogalsky conducts a workshop on using the design studio approach to achieve effective collaborative design.
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Make Your Team's Domain Language Truly Ubiquitous with Concept Maps
James Ross discusses what concept maps are, how to construct one, what to do and what to avoid when creating one, and how to help a team build a shared mental model depicted in a concept map.
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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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Culture for Great Teams and Results
Richard Kasperowski introduces the Core Protocols useful for intentionally building a great team culture, and demonstrates how to implement 3 of them.
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What If There Were No Rules?
Ben Gracewood explains how to grow a SaaS Product Engineering Team from 8 to 80 (and beyond) while driving simplicity by actively shedding rules and regulations.
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How a Simple Hackathon Helped Shape a New Mindset
Rhiannon Gaskell, Brett Wakeman, Rikki-Lee Vrankovich discuss how a hackathon sparked the change at Carsales AUS, followed by a number of initiatives that brought organizational agility.
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The Spotify Tribe
Kevin Goldsmith presents Spotify’s internal culture promoting collaboration and creativity and the internal groupings that keep individuals and teams aligned and cross-functional.
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Organizing for Innovation
John Housego describes how W. L. Gore & Associates manages to maintain a global corporation without hierarchies, that keeps the bureaucracy as small as possible.
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The Good, Bad and Ugly of Growth
Aaron Quint shares an honest story of a team's journey, taken from his experience as CTO of Paperless Post, an organization which went from 5 to over 100 people and from a dev team of 2 to 40.