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Evolutionary Architecture from an Organizational Perspective

Creating an architecture that can evolve over time is not simply a technical challenge, and requires collaboration with non-technical people in an organization to ensure the software adapts as needed.

Radosław Maziarka
on May 28, 2021
Culture & Methods

Keeping Technology Change Human

When we are at the forefront of so much change, it's easy to forget that other people around us find change more challenging. This article is a reminder to look beyond the code and processes, to consider how tech team actions can affect our users in emotional ways. It seeks to establish a few ways of thinking to help bring others along with us when working through technology change.

Matt Overall
on May 20, 2021
Culture & Methods

The Flow System: Leadership for Solving Complex Problems

The Flow System elevates Lean Thinking in an age of complexity by combining complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science into the Triple Helix of Flow, which organizations can use to become more innovative, adaptive, and resilient. This second article on The Flow System dives into the three helixes of complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science.

Ben Linders John Turner Nigel Thurlow Brian Rivera
on May 14, 2021
Culture & Methods

Increasing Developer Effectiveness by Optimizing Feedback Loops

We can think of engineering as a series of feedback loops: simple tasks that developers do and then validate to get feedback, which might be by a colleague, a system (i.e. an automation) or an end user. Using a framework of feedback loops we have a way of measuring and prioritizing the improvements we need to do to optimize developer effectiveness.

Ben Linders Tim Cochran
on May 10, 2021
Culture & Methods

The Rise of Asynchronous Collaboration and What It Means for Development Teams

Drew Falkman from @modus-create shares his perspective on Zoom fatigue and the rise of asynchronous collaboration tools. He offers tips for how to get the most out of the tools his team uses -- like Miro, a virtual whiteboard platform, and Trello, a project management tool. He explores the pros and cons of different tools and approaches.

Drew Falkman Jay Garcia
on May 04, 2021
Culture & Methods

Site Reliability Engineering Experiences at Instana

With the popularity of distributed architectures, distributed databases, containers and container orchestrators, an approach that emphasizes automation and a culture of collaboration is a natural fit for modern day operations. Site Reliability Engineering takes engineering practices that have been established and proven in software engineering and applies them to the field of operations.

Bastian Spanneberg
on Apr 29, 2021
Culture & Methods

Challenges of Working Remotely in Africa

Remote work can present new complexities such as communication gaps, time zone challenges, and even lack of transparency. Nonetheless, a well-managed remote team can readily overcome all these issues while discovering many benefits at the same time. This article focuses on the current situation in Africa citing specific challenges and solutions drawn from real companies in Nigeria.

Abiodun Osoba
on Apr 27, 2021
Culture & Methods

Zuzana Šochová on Becoming an Agile Leader

The book The Agile Leader by Zuzana Šochová explains the need for agile leaders and explores what agile leadership looks like. It describes the skills of agile leaders, practices that they use, and provides exercises and assessments that can be used to become an agile leader.

Ben Linders Zuzana Šochová
on Apr 23, 2021
Culture & Methods

Moving from Collocated Management to Remote Leadership

Management in a remote organization is vastly different from that in a collocated one. Copying in-person interactions to digital tools does not cultivate a great culture nor does it contribute to better collaboration. This article aims to give you an idea of what the move to remote leadership entails and why it is essential for the success of any business in the remote work era.

Molood Ceccarelli
on Apr 21, 2021
Culture & Methods

Designing & Managing for Resilience

The fourth article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores the strategies used by engineering leaders to help create the conditions for sustained resilience. It provides stories, examples, and strategies towards designing an organizational structure to support resilient performance and managing for resilience.

Laura Maguire
on Apr 15, 2021
Culture & Methods

Put the Feedback back into “Demo & Feedback”

As agilists, we know the importance of showing our work and getting feedback as early as we possibly can. That feedback guides what we do next. To get what you need to meet the desires of your stakeholders, this article looks at the demo and the feedback part of that session and provides suggestions for creating amazing demo & feedback sessions.

Jenni Jepsen Ole Jepsen
on Mar 18, 2021
Culture & Methods

Becoming More Efficient and Productive in a Distracted World

This article highlights how increased distractions in agile teams can affect our mental health and cause burnout. It outlines how various productivity hacks can help to reduce this problem and make you highly efficient using real-life experiences. Finally, it discusses various steps the software industry can take to help preserve our mental health and reduce distractions.

Raj Subrameyer
on Mar 11, 2021