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Robot Says "Culture" - Moving towards Teal

Culture is something to be cultivated, something which will grow and evolve and must be cared for and nurtured. Most organizations today are stuck in an orange state of consciousness and culture. Let's explore the teal breakthroughs in self-management, evolutionary purpose and wholeness, and see how implementing teal-type working can lead to significant productivity and profitability gains.

Ash Sheikh
on Jul 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

Transforming from Projects to Products

Agile Transformation is much harder than most organisations envisage, and can require a major cultural change for the transformation to be effective. Too often we make superficial changes but continue the same behaviour with minor changes to processes to appear agile. But without a change in mindset we fail to see the true impact an Agile Transformation can really have.

John Yorke
on Jul 01, 2017
DevOps

Developing a Secure and Scalable Web Ecosystem at LinkedIn

LinkedIn’s hyper-growth placed strains on the organization’s infrastructure. A new release model was instrumental to scale and led to increased code quality, security, and member satisfaction.

James Baker Mira Thambireddy
on Jun 30, 2017
Mobile

Enabling IoT Ecosystems through Platform Interoperability

The fragmentation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the lack of interoperability prevent the emergence of broadly accepted IoT ecosystems. The BIG IoT (Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the IoT) project aims to ignite such an ecosystem.

Jelena Mitic Corina-Kim Schindhelm Abdelmajid Khelil Sebastian Käbisch Denis Kramer Danh Le Phuoc Ernest Teniente Darko Anicic Arne Bröring Stefan Schmid
on Jun 30, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Computest Story: The Transformation to an Agile Enterprise

This article explores how Computest followed their mission towards a self-managing organization. It explains the key drivers, how the journey got started, why Computest focused on value streams and how Computest aligned roles and responsibilities and applied Kanban to operationalize ideas. It also shares the lessons learned so far and discusses what this means for the next steps to be done.

Clemens Riedl Sigi Kaltenecker Hartger Ruijs
on Jun 29, 2017
DevOps

MyHeritage Releases to Production

This article explores the Continuous Delivery journey at MyHeritage, from painful, time-consuming manual releases, to a fully automated deployment pipeline.

Ran Levy
on Jun 29, 2017
Web Development

Turbocharge React with GraphQL

GraphQL and React are two Facebook technologies that have grown up together. In this article, Shane Stillwell shows how GraphQL, a strongly-typed JavaScript-based language, helps developers build relationships with their data and improves marshaling across service boundaries. GraphQL is extensible, works alongside REST, and can be implemented in any back-end software solution.

Shane Stillwell
on Jun 28, 2017
Culture & Methods

Tech Employee Job Satisfaction: What Can Data Tell Us?

Overall job satisfaction levels at some of the world’s biggest tech companies have been charted by Payscale against various employee metrics, including early career pay rate, average workforce age and total years of industry experience. The results make for interesting reading – but do they say more about the tech industry itself, or the millennials flocking to work in it?

Ashley Fleming
on Jun 27, 2017
Architecture & Design

Building a Blockchain PoC in Ten Minutes Using Hyperledger Composer

This article examines what businesses look for when considering blockchain’s role in their organization and how the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Composer can help application developers easily create compelling blockchain solutions for the enterprise.

Matt Lucas
on Jun 27, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Ultimate Feedback Loop: Learning from Customer Reported Defects

Investigating the root causes of customer reported defects will have a great impact on your organization. The best ways to ensure customer satisfaction, lower costs and increase employee engagement is to look inside — you already have the data. At the end, it’s all about continuous improvement.

Emanuil Slavov
on Jun 24, 2017
Architecture & Design

Know the Flow! Microservices and Event Choreographies

This article explores ways to implement services which are long running and stretch across the boundary of individual microservices using event based architectures.

Bernd Ruecker Martin Schimak
on Jun 23, 2017
Culture & Methods

Escaping Method Prison

Methods are our best tool to get great software. But today they put us in method prisons with method wars, reliance on gurus and swings from method to method. How foolish is this? It needs to be stopped. The new Essence standard efficiently stops that path. And, teams get better methods, selected from a practice library and support in their daily work. Executives get forever learning org’s.

Ivar Jacobson Roly Stimson
on Jun 21, 2017