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The Build Trap
Melissa Perri discusses how to avoid building something for the sake of “building” and not because the customer needs it, encouraging businesses to focus on finding value leading to business goals.
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Three Baseline Metrics
Mike Burns outlines three metrics -cycle time, throughput, and work item size- a team can use to help improve team performance, and allow for the right decisions to be made at the right time.
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Forecasting Using Data
Troy Magennis discusses the top three reasons forecasts fail to match reality, and challenges the assumption that work complexity and effort correlates with delivery time.
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The Groupishness of Groups
Katy Rowett explores some of the social defenses that teams might engage in when people leave or join groups or when management seems to work against them.
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Trio of Trouble: Design Thinking, Lean and Agile
Jonny Schneider compares Design Thinking, Lean and Agile, offering guidelines for working with other teams, and advising on what to avoid doing, based on lessons learned in the trenches.
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Build Digital Services, Not Websites
Syed Riyazuddin discusses how an organization evolved from delivering websites to operating multi-channel services by realigning the organizational structure with the Digital Service Standard.
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Aligning Impact from Boardrooms to Pixels
Michael Le explores examples of how OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) were used to help teams focus on what they should work on, to help frame product critiques, and to manage backlogs.
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The Story of Mentorship, and Why It Matters
John Contad teaches three approaches to mentorship he found working in DevOps, and how to use stories to improve mentorship.
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Saving the Plane from a Nosedive
Alexander Logan discusses assumptions and the importance of considering them seriously before making decisions, sharing a story of a wrong decision of his that almost killed a company.
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Leaders at All Levels
Esther Derby explores a different definition of leadership: “The ability to enhance the environment, so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).”
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Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won’t Work Here
Jez Humble presents some of the highlights and lowlights of the past six years listening to people explain why continuous delivery won’t work, and what he has learned in the process.
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Building a Responsive Organization
Sami Honkonen looks at the building blocks of a responsive organization that thrives in uncertainty by understanding complexity, systems, experiments, transparency and empowering execution.