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Cultivating a Learning Organisation
This article explores how creating an internal culture of experimentation and learning enabled a company to keep pace with the rapid iterations in tech that have become the regular way we do business. It shows that psychological safety is a key component of the learning organisation; employees need to be able to experiment and learn from any outcome - without fear that failure will be punished.
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Architecture with 800 of My Closest Friends: The Evolution of Comcast’s Architecture Guild
Comcast has cultivated an Architecture Guild, with the goal of "threading the needle" between obtaining advantageous critical mass around certain common technologies without undermining individual teams' agency. The Architecture Guild is a grassroots framework that has been used to cut across organizational boundaries to identify solid, workable, default recommendations.
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A Simple Mindset Shift Turns Ineffective Teams into Productive Organizations
To help teams become more effective: #1 Develop and Use a Coaching Mindset #2 Respect Your Team As Experts #3 Allow People Doing The Work To Make The Decisions. To make rapid progress on developing a coaching mindset, learn about the Path to Coaching Program which has five modules: professional coaching, systems coaching, scaling, sustainability, and coaching leaders.
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Q&A on the Book Can You Hear Me? - How to Connect with People in a Virtual World
The book Can You Hear Me? - How To Connect with People in a Virtual World by Nick Morgan explores the challenges that virtual communication poses upon us, and provides solutions and practical tips for connecting and communicating virtually with each other.
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Crafting a Resilient Culture: Or, How to Survive an Accidental Mid-Day Production Incident
While working at Etsy, Ryn Daniels accidentally upgraded Apache on every single server that was running it, which caused a production incident. Explore lessons learned in this article, including that although automation and orchestration can be great, you should make sure you understand what’s happening under the hood and what to do if your automation goes awry.
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Great Managers Are Like Great Teachers: Q&A with Jessica Ingrassellino
Differentiated instruction strategies have helped Jessica Ingrassellino find ways for each of her team members to best grow and flourish with the opportunities available. She applies this by adjusting content, process, and outcome, approaching each individual as an individual with respect for their needs.
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Success or Burnout? Q&A on How Personal Agility Can Help
How can you find out if you’re being successful or heading for a burnout? The only person who can really answer that question is you. A Q&A with Peter Stevens and Maria Matarelli who spoke about success or burnout and personal agility at eXperience Agile 2018.
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Successful Teams: How Leaders Build Their Tech Companies
The first rule of success when starting a company is having a great team. This could be achieved by assuring both great leadership and a great hiring process. This could happen through following best recruitment practices, looking for employees with a can-do attitude, creating a unique company story, establishing a meaningful culture and enhancing a CEO’s skills.
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Towards Successful Resilient Software Design
In this article, Uwe Friedrichsen explains the “why” and “what” of resilient software design, discusses the challenges he has met most often in recent years, and shares his thoughts on how to implement resilient software design in your organisation.
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Space as an Enabler - Coworking as a Mindset
Coworking is a mindset that describes the future of work. The coworking manifesto provides a framework of values to create sustainable communities based on trust, where businesses, entrepreneurs, governmental and non-governmental and technical communities can work together.
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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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How to Make Cross-Functional Operations a Team Effort
Increase transparency, facilitate the flow of communication, and increase productivity across your organization by cultivating the right approach and best practices in team building. Cross-functional collaboration lets you leverage the power of individual capabilities as well as teamwork to accelerate and improve operational effectiveness.