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How to Deal with Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management. Integrating specific coaching principles can enhance the quality of your conversations by guiding dialogue to uncover actionable insights, foster trust, boost collaboration, and drive clarity in your objectives.

Alexander Giurca
on Jan 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

IDEA: a Framework for Nurturing a Culture of Continuous Experimentation

For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn. This article explains how teams can foster such a culture, navigate through the complexities of modern development environments and harness agility to deliver software quickly that fits the needs of users and business sponsors. It describes a framework to explore, plan, implement and evaluate ideas.

Sarah Aslanifar
on Jul 18, 2023
Culture & Methods

Shift in Sprint Review Mindset: from Reporting to Inclusive Ideation

Sprint Reviews should foster a dynamic environment of creativity, exploration, and continual refinement, where important product and overall business decisions are taken. In this article, we will explore the substantial mindset shift and routine change from a typical reporting-focused to interactive data-driven culture of Sprint Reviews.

Yuliia Pieskova
on Jun 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Are They Really Using It? Monitoring Digital Experience to Determine Feature Effectiveness

This article reflects on the challenges of determining user experience and effectiveness and how modern techniques such as Real User Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring can determine the true effectiveness of features. It includes stories from banking to show which measures can help agile teams determine not only if features are being used, but diagnose other common issues too.

Carly Richmond
on Nov 01, 2022
Culture & Methods

DevOps at Schneider: a Meaningful Journey of Engaging People into Change

Adopting DevOps at Schneider started with building a case for change. Tech people were engaged into change by organizing learning and collaboration sessions and getting feedback from the front lines. Change is hard and without leadership support, dedicated time for developers to really digest it and continual reinforcement and conversation, it will be challenging to be successful.

Amanda Heintz
on Sep 23, 2022
Culture & Methods

Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently. This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Aug 23, 2022
Culture & Methods

Establishing a Scalable SRE Infrastructure Using Standardization and Short Feedback Loops

This article explores an SRE implementation where the operations team builds and runs the SRE infrastructure and the development teams build and run the services leveraging the SRE infrastructure. This SRE solution enables the software delivery organization to scale the number of services in operation without linearly scaling the number of people required to operate the services.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Jun 27, 2022
Culture & Methods

Sustaining Fast Flow with Socio-Technical Thinking

To sustain a fast flow of changes over long periods of time, organizations address both the social and technical, socio-technical, aspects of reducing complexity. Examples are incentivising good technical practices to keep code maintainable, architecting systems to minimize dependencies and maximize team motivation, and leveraging platforms to preclude whole categories of infrastructure blockers.

Nick Tune
on Apr 18, 2022
Culture & Methods

Using Machine Learning for Fast Test Feedback to Developers and Test Suite Optimization

Software testing, especially in large scale projects, is a time intensive process. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available. The article explores optimizing test execution, saving machine resources, and reducing feedback time to developers.

Gregor Endler Marco Achtziger
on Feb 22, 2022
Culture & Methods

The Three Symptoms of Toxic Leadership and How to Get out of It

None of us are born toxic leaders, but anyone can easily become one. In the past several years, workplaces have started to feel the effects of “toxic leadership.” Now is the time to educate everyone on the importance of speaking right, doing right, treating each other right in the workplace, and above all, being a non-toxic leader.

Raj Subrameyer
on Oct 06, 2021
Culture & Methods

Resetting a Struggling Scrum Team Using Sprint 0

Sprint 0 can be a great mechanism in Agile transformations to reset existing teams which are not delivering value, exhibiting a lack of accountability, or struggling with direct collaboration with customers. This article shares the experiences from doing a Sprint 0 with an existing team which was struggling to deliver, helping them to align to a new product vision and become a stronger team.

Carly Richmond
on Sep 16, 2021
Culture & Methods

Facilitating Feedback That's Psychologically Safe

This article focuses on feedback with regards to a plan or proposal - ways to make it easier to give and receive feedback, so the psychological safety of the team can increase. The aim is to give you insights, models, structures and practical things to try, in order to facilitate feedback that boosts psychological safety in your team(s).

Roy Marriott
on Jul 12, 2021