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Enabling Effective Remote Working - Principles and Patterns from Team Topologies

This article shares ideas, principles, and practices from Team Topologies (and related topics) to help organizations approach their structures' design and evolution to better support interactions in remote working. It also shares examples to showcase their impact when used to better approach organizational design, in general, and particularly to support remote working.

Eduardo da Silva Rich Allen
on Dec 01, 2022
Culture & Methods

How SaaS Platforms Can Provide Career Opportunities to "Quiet Quitters"

The pandemic-era work-at-home trend has caused some workers to decide they enjoyed it so much they refused to return to the office. Many would rather be fired, creating a sizable opportunity for SaaS developers. Work-from-home businesses require SaaS platforms that enable entrepreneurs to connect with their customers and handle their workflow. Here's some inspiration to get developers started.

Grant Barra
on Nov 29, 2022
Culture & Methods

Extinguishing IT Team Burnout through Mindfulness and Unstructured Time

Burnout is taking a toll on IT and creating serious skill shortages. How can you keep your IT team engaged, productive, and happy? Mindfulness and unstructured time are delivering tangible business benefits that positively impact the bottom line, all while driving worker satisfaction and well-being.

Niraj Shekhar
on Nov 25, 2022
Culture & Methods

Craftleadership: Craft Your Leadership as Developers Craft Code

Learning software craftership made me reconsider how I wrote code. Being an experienced software team manager, I try to reevaluate my management practices in the same way: what could test-driven management or pair-management be? Here I propose different insights on how software craftership tools and mindset are transposable to the management domain.

Edouard Gomez-Vaëz
on Nov 22, 2022
Culture & Methods

When, Why and How Facilitation Skills Help Scrum Teams

Effective Facilitation helps Scrum and Agile Teams leverage differences in positive ways, guiding teams to frame their discussions with clear purpose, decisions, outcomes and engagement with one another. This article talks about how facilitation can make or break team interactions, the amount of facilitation needed in certain scenarios, how to drive decisions with facilitation, and more.

Patricia Kong
on Nov 17, 2022
Culture & Methods

Bringing a Product Mindset into DevOps

To be successful, organisations need two things: products and services their customers find valuable, and the ability to deliver these products and services well. This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset".

Marcel Britsch
on Nov 15, 2022
Culture & Methods

Are Your “Value Streams” Keeping You Stuck in the Past?

The essence of business agility is being able to respond quickly and systematically to feedback. As a means of achieving business agility, value stream management falls short, and ends up being not very different from what organizations have done for a long time: using program management practices to coordinate work across different teams in a large organization.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Nov 10, 2022
Culture & Methods

From Async Code Reviews to Co-Creation Patterns

This article dives into the throughput and quality of the async code review process, which are very important dimensions to optimize for in product development teams. It also explains why co-creation patterns – Pair and Mob programming – as an alternative way of working are able to optimize for both of those dimensions, instead of needing to trade off between them.

Dragan Stepanović
on Nov 08, 2022
Culture & Methods

Individualized Testing Processes - One Size Does Not Fit All

Many organizations in the software industry have fallen into a state where they have set processes that are used across the organization and teams. Every team is not the same, so why are their processes all the same? In this article we’re going to explore what it can mean for teams to have individualized processes that are formed by the context of the work they are doing and of the team itself.

Bailey Hanna
on Nov 03, 2022
Culture & Methods

Are They Really Using It? Monitoring Digital Experience to Determine Feature Effectiveness

This article reflects on the challenges of determining user experience and effectiveness and how modern techniques such as Real User Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring can determine the true effectiveness of features. It includes stories from banking to show which measures can help agile teams determine not only if features are being used, but diagnose other common issues too.

Carly Richmond
on Nov 01, 2022
Culture & Methods

Using Remote Agile Governance to Create the Culture Organisations Need

Governance and culture are inextricably intertwined, and creating an environment where people thrive is the most important governance responsibility. Sadly, in many organisations governance is perceived as slowing things down and impeding progress, yet effective governance is an enabler that removes blockages and enables flow.

James McMenamin Tony Ponton
on Oct 27, 2022
DevOps

Evolving DevOps to Enable Quality at Speed Software

DevOps must evolve to include Quality at Speed to address issues with delivering timely business value and innovation, siloed teams lacking alignment, a fragmented toolchain, and quality sacrifices. Infrastructure, Developer and Experimentation platforms are the three fundamental platforms enabling Quality at Speed software delivery

Antoine Craske
on Oct 26, 2022

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