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Bridging the Understanding Gap between Business and IT
The understanding gap between business and IT is one of the largest challenges to effective digital transformation. Drawing on research and their own experience, the author presents 10 practical tips to break stereotypes, build relationships, and bridge the gaps.
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Agile Hiring: a Joint Venture between the Talent Acquisition and Product Development Teams
The demand for IT professionals is far higher than the offer. Nowadays the challenge is not just to attract and acquire, but to retain the best professionals in the sector. Let's enable dev team members to acquire and secure the best candidates for their teams and the company, collaborate with talent acquisition, and respect candidates as professionals and maintain open communication with them.
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The Hows and Whys of Effective Production-Readiness Reviews
At QCon Plus November 2021, Nora Jones, CEO and founder of Jeli, talked about how to build production readiness reviews (PRR) with emphasis on context and psychological safety. Her talk focused on the particulars of a PRR process that relates to incidents.
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Hidden Habits Killing Your Remote Team’s Ability to Collaborate Effectively
Some habits carried over from in-person work continue to damage collaboration and engagement for hybrid and remote teams. By not addressing these habits, teams are experiencing deteriorating morale, lack of trust and connection required for meaningful collaboration. Here are four examples of habits leaders can address today to build more connected, engaged and innovative teams.
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How Open Source is Contributing to Your Team’s Development: What Leaders Should Know
Today’s open source landscape plays a critical role in the developer journey and in business as well. This piece examines common barriers to contribution, how businesses benefit from open source, and what it may look like for businesses to help prioritize open source contribution among their employees.
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Open-Source Testing: Why Bug Bounty Programs Should Be Embraced, Not Feared
The growing importance of the Web3 ecosystem based on blockchains shows how important community test programs are. Some within the testing community see this trend as a threat. However, it is actually an opportunity. Bug bounties and open-source test contributions are a great tool for test teams, and there is every reason for testers to embrace this new trend rather than to fear it.
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How to Introduce Innovation into the DNA of 21st Century Companies
An innovation mindset is about the tiny little improvements any employee can do; hundreds of simple, low-cost- no-effort activities are in plain sight just waiting for somebody to deploy them. This article provides guidelines that can support you in changing the attitude of employees in your organization providing trust, time, space, teams, a second operating system, MVPs, and co-creation.
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What Kind of Coach Does Your Team Need?
Coaching is primarily client-driven; the client chooses the right coach for a particular need at a particular time. However, the team may first need to understand what coaching is before deciding what kind of coach they need, and why they need it. This article examines the role that a coach can play in establishing, maintaining and nurturing a safe space for teams to grow and achieve their goals.
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How to Accelerate Your Staff+ Career through Open Source Engagement
It takes many factors for an engineer to land a Staff+ position. In this article, you’ll find how contributing and engaging to open-source can help you sharpen critical Staff+ skills like writing communication, while helping increase your visibility and the odds of landing in such a position.
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Pipedrive Agile Framework: How a Unicorn Company Customized Agile Processes to Scale
Pipedrive would not have become a unicorn company by using a standard off-the-shelf agile framework. Instead, the company created its own framework. It makes a distinction between Mission Teams versus Launchpads and relies heavily on dynamic reteaming. In Pipedrive's Agile Framework, the product managers pitch new ideas and software engineers volunteer to lead their Mission Teams.
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Reducing Cognitive Load in Agile DevOps Teams Using Team Topologies
In this article we will be sharing our experience from 12 months of adopting certain management and organisational insights from the book Team Topologies. It explores how we identified areas of responsibility and assigned those into mostly customer-facing domains which could be given to our teams. It shows how an inverse Conway manoeuvre can be used to improve the architecture.
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How Psychological Safety at Work Creates Effective Software Tech Teams That Learn and Grow
This article provides the foundations of psychological safety and shows how it has been applied for team effectiveness. It explores how psychological safety supports learning and improvement and how we can foster a psychologically safe culture in tech teams.