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SLOs Are the API for Your Engineering Team

SLOs provide a simple common language for evaluating risk in terms of error budgets. SLOs save everyone involved both time and energy, which you can redirect toward more important things, like keeping your customers happy.

Charity Majors
on Oct 19, 2019
Architecture & Design

Three Major Cybersecurity Pain Points to Address for Improved Threat Defense

Three pain points every company must address when addressing cybersecurity include threat volume and complexity, a growing cybersecurity skills gap, and the need for threat prioritization. This article describes each of these in some detail, and includes recommendations for corporations to deal with them.

Jonathan Zhang
on Oct 15, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Impact: 21st Century Change Management, Behavioral Science, and the Future of Work

The book Impact by Paul Gibbons explores how to lead and manage change in the 21st century to support digital transformations while taking the needs of millennials and Gen Z into account. It describes how we can humanize change and use pull models and dialogs to support behavior change.

Ben Linders Paul Gibbons
on Oct 11, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Engineering the Digital Transformation

The book Engineering the Digital Transformation by Gary Gruver provides a systematic approach for doing continuous improvement in organizations. He explores how we can leverage and modify engineering and manufacturing practices to address the unique characteristics and capabilities of software development.

Ben Linders Gary Gruver
on Sep 28, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Helping People Change

The book Helping People Change by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin Smith, and Ellen Van Oosten describes how you can coach people with compassion for sustained learning and change. It explains how connecting to people's vision and dreams and using the energy that that brings can help people grow in a meaningful way.

Ben Linders Richard Boyatzis Melvin Smith Ellen Van Oosten
on Sep 12, 2019
Culture & Methods

Remote Meetings Reflect Distributed Team Culture

Are you having problems connecting with people in your distributed meetings? Do you feel like you and your remote colleagues don’t meet goals in your meetings? The problem may not be with the meetings. It might be the culture in which you run your meetings.

Mark Kilby
on Sep 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

Appreciation at Work

As organizations across the world are experimenting better ways to sustain their employees’ engagement, appreciation and recognition programs have flourished in the last five years, among the best, if not the best, tool of predilection for making employees feel valued. Appreciation benefits are not limited to companies’ performance; they also benefit individuals and teams.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Sep 04, 2019
Culture & Methods

Scrum & The Toyota Production System, Build Ultra-Powerful Teams

How to use the Toyota Production System, as a knowledge-building system, to reveal learning topics on which to work to develop outstanding Scrum teams for exceptional results.

Pierre Jannez
on Aug 02, 2019
Culture & Methods

Humanity at Work: Interview with Rich Sheridan, Author of Chief Joy Officer

Richard Sheridan describes the importance of joy and humanity in the workplace and how it contributes to increasing employees' job satisfaction and engagement. Joy has always been important for employees, and today even more as we are welcoming new generations of workers.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Jul 25, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Pipeline Driven Organization - Enabling True Continuous Delivery

Many organizations try to implement continuous integration or continuous delivery, but they get stuck in the process; too many human bottlenecks standing between the pipelines. By teaching pipelines to make better decisions and offloading human judgements onto the pipelines we can have the pipelines make decisions all the way up to production to create a true continuous delivery mechanism.

Roy Osherove
on Jul 19, 2019
Culture & Methods

Waste Not, Want Not: A Simplified Value Stream Map for Uncovering Waste

This article describes a simplified form of Value Stream Maps that makes it easy to visualize bottlenecks and inefficient processes in the software delivery lifecycle. It focuses on the two forms of Lean waste defined as Inventory and Waiting.

J Meadows
on Jul 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

How Developers Can Learn the Language of Business Stakeholders

This article explores how business stakeholders and developers can improve their collaboration and communication by learning each other's language and dictionaries. It explores areas where there can be the most tension: talking about impediments and blockers, individual and team learning, real options, and risk management.

Anna Radzikowska
on Jul 04, 2019