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Using OKRs to Build Autonomous Impact Teams
To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams.
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Categorise Unsolved Problems in Agile Development: Premature & Foreseeable
Productivity decline and technical debt, as often seen in agile development, can be prevented by separating unsolved problems into premature and foreseeable. It shifts the discussion about unsolved problems from importance to likelihood. With small but essential adjustments, agile can be kept sustainable. With this insight, developer-architect differences and team psychology gaps can be bridged.
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Q&A on the Book Managing Technical Debt
The book Managing Technical Debt by Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, and Ipek Ozkaya provides principles and practices that help you gain control of technical debt throughout the software development process and life of the software product.
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Simplicity, Please - A Manifesto for Software Development
An unrelenting and breathless rush to market is quietly driving your company to the brink of extinction. Maybe it’s time to rethink how you design and write code. Investment in simplicity is investment in speed. Simplicity is also the mother lode of intellectual property — and a competitive advantage almost impossible to regain once lost.
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How to Sell Refactoring? The Case of Nordea Bank AB
Refactoring is often not a technical challenge. Teams can accurately diagnose inefficient code design. If they have sufficient time and budget at their disposal, they would probably get things done. In this article, we focus on the strategic code refactoring. This distinction was introduced by the BNS IT consultants as part of the method called Natural Course of Refactoring.
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James Grenning on Technical Excellence
At then recent Agile Singapore conference James Grenning presented two technically focused talks - one on the importance of technical excellence and the other teaching test driven development. He spoke to InfoQ about the importance of strong technical practices to enable true agility in software development.
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Book Launch of “Commitment”, and an Interview with Olav Maassen, Chris Matts and Chris Geary
Commitment is a graphical business novel about managing project risks with “Real Options”, a way of thinking to improve your decision making. InfoQ attended the book launch on May 14 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and spoke with the authors about decision making, risks and technical debt.