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From Dependency to Autonomy: Building an In-House E-signing Service
While many companies rely on third-party services, there’s a growing realization that an in-house solution can offer more control, flexibility, and cost savings. In this article, we’ll delve into how to build an e-signing microservice.
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Using Remote Agile Governance to Create the Culture Organisations Need
Governance and culture are inextricably intertwined, and creating an environment where people thrive is the most important governance responsibility. Sadly, in many organisations governance is perceived as slowing things down and impeding progress, yet effective governance is an enabler that removes blockages and enables flow.
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Why DevOps Governance is Crucial to Enable Developer Velocity
The application environment should be managed centrally by the DevOps team. This allows them to better track modifications and changes which would then be swift and transparent to developer teams.
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How to Decide in Self-Managed Projects - a Lean Approach to Governance
Whether self-managed or self-governed as a project, the power still needs to be distributed internally. If the project is open to decide how things are done, how do we decide? A solid but flexible set of tools and practices like sociocracy is a great starting point for projects to have clear but lean processes that can grow as we grow.
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How Medical Companies are Innovating through Agile Practices
The adoption of Agile methods has been steadily growing in medical product companies over the past ten years. Practices vary from cloud-based continuous flow for data-intensive services to sprint-based for physical devices with embedded software. The question is no longer whether, but how Agile can work in medical product development - for our mix of technical, market, and regulatory constraints.
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Service Mesh Ultimate Guide 2021 - Second Edition: Next Generation Microservices Development
Get up to speed on the adoption of service mesh. Learn how to deploy service mesh solutions in heterogeneous infrastructures and application/service connectivity.
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Adoption of Cloud Native Architecture, Part 3: Service Orchestration and Service Mesh
This part 3 article in Cloud Native Architecture Adoption series, explores service interaction in a microservices based architecture, typical challenges we experience in distributed systems without proper governance, and how patterns like service orchestration and service mesh can help address those challenges.
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Q&A on the Book Future Ethics
In the book Future Ethics, Cennydd Bowles explores the role ethics play in the tech industry and in the work of product managers, designers, and engineers. The book provides guidance on how to think and act ethically when designing products.
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Q&A on the Book Digital Transformation at Scale
The book Digital Transformation at Scale by Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken and Tom Loosemore, explores what governmental and other large organizations can do to make a digital transformation happen. It is based on the authors’ experience designing and helping to deliver the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS).
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Q&A on the Book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy
The book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez provides a collection of sociocratic tools and principles and stories about applying sociocracy. It can be used as a reference for implementing sociocracy in organizations to establish self-governance.
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Coaching with Curiosity Using Clean Language and Agile
Clean Language questions are bias-free questions. They can be used to discover the underlying rules, expressed values, and coping mechanisms in organizations, and to gain clarity and promote diverse ideas in groups. Simple to learn, but tricky to implement, clean questions require transparency and sharing a bit more of one’s thinking than usual.
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Holacracy for Humans
Snapper, a New Zealand based transport ticketing service provider, wanted to be more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In 2016 they introduced Holacracy, which enables people to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of waiting to be told what to do. They use Holacracy across all areas of the business and this way of working applies to everyone.