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Essential Soft Skills for IT leaders in a Remote World

Leading teams is always challenging, especially when your team is remote; it requires more effort and more skills to be developed. This article describes the skills needed if you would like to become not just a good team leader, but a great one. To start, here are three essential soft skills: be vulnerable and authentic, build a collaborative and safe environment, and provide candid feedback.

Anastasiia Tymoshchuk
on Sep 14, 2021
Culture & Methods

Applying Genetic Engineering to Your Organization Culture

Common barriers to transformation value remain people, mindset, and organizational culture; they are so significant that they can halt any transformation from achieving meaningful delivery capabilities. Behavioral mechanisms can work as a sophisticated DNA blueprint that directs actions. This article explores mechanisms for DNA manipulation to apply the concepts in the organizational environment.

Liat Palace
on Sep 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Break the Cycle of Yesterday's Logic in Organizational Change and Agile Adoption

Change in most organizations today seems to be locked in the paradigm of yesterday’s logic – repeating the same top-down, command driven approaches that consistently fail to achieve the expected benefits. The environment today requires new approaches drawing on concepts from modern management approaches. This article introduces a number of ideas and approaches to break out of the old paradigm.

Roland Konrad Kobald
on Aug 21, 2021
DevOps

Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

In a digital economy, VSM improved software deliveries support the businesses' other value stream improvement initiatives. In its modern reinvention, VSM software tools provide end-to-end and real-time access to data and analytical tools to help improve Flow across CI/CD and DevOps software delivery pipelines.

Gary Rupp
on Aug 17, 2021
Development

The Excel Formula Language Is Now Turing-Complete

The Excel team announced LAMBDA, a new feature that lets users define and name formula functions. LAMBDA functions admit parameters, can call other LAMBDA functions and recursively call themselves. With LAMBDA, the Excel formula language is Turing-complete: user-defined functions can thus compute anything without resorting to imperative languages (e.g., VBA, JavaScript).

Bruno Couriol
on Aug 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Outcome Mapping - How to Collaborate with Clarity

To truly improve, organizations need to deliver change to people, process, and tools. To make change effective, they need to identify where that change is needed, what the map of their current state looks like, and what is the best next step to make progress. Outcome mapping helps align teams to a clear goal, gain an understanding of the landscape, and develop a clear plan of action.

Steve Pereira
on Jul 23, 2021
Culture & Methods

Moving into "Modern Test Leadership"

Test management is dead; it just really needs to evolve. Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, and build personal leadership values.

Simon Prior
on Jul 20, 2021
Culture & Methods

How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2021: an Industry Insight

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses think about outsourcing their processes. While security and sustainable outsourcing have become top priorities, cost reduction has become a driving factor in outsourcing decisions. The practice of nearshoring is gaining prominence, while other practices are becoming obsolete. This article explores how outsourcing practices are changing in 2021.

Swati Sharm
on Jul 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Building Stronger Human Teams by Managing the Inner Lizards

Each of us has an inner lizard that frets constantly about our safety. People come with brains that are pre-configured to scan everything you say for threats to their safety. Learning to recognize when you're operating under reptilian influence is a great start. This article introduces some techniques to help you manage the lizard within you along with those around you.

Mike Duskis
on Jul 01, 2021
Culture & Methods

Inclusion Has to Be Continuous

To create a truly diverse culture, we need to have inclusion throughout the whole lifecycle of an employee’s career journey. Leaders need to foster a psychologically safe inclusive environment to allow diversity and diversity of thought to exist. They need to grow people to move them out and continuously get new people in to shake things up, to maintain diversity and inclusion.

Ben Linders Dave Dame
on Jun 11, 2021
Culture & Methods

Software Engineering at Google: Practices, Tools, Values, and Culture

The book Software Engineering at Google provides insights into the practices and tools used at Google to develop and maintain software with respect to time, scale, and the tradeoffs that all engineers make in development. It also explores the engineering values and the culture that’s based on them, emphasizing the main differences between programming and software engineering.

Ben Linders Titus Winters Tom Manshreck Hyrum Wright
on Jun 02, 2021
Architecture & Design

Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies

Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.

Doug Hudgeon
on Jun 01, 2021