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Using Kanban with Overbård to Manage Development of Red Hat JBoss EAP
As planning the work for Red Hat JBoss EAP became harder and harder, Red Hat decided to adopt Kanban to make their development process more manageable, while maintaining a very high level of quality. They introduced Kanban in their distributed team and developed their own Jira add-on for visualizing the work, and added parallel tasks to their Kanban cards to simplify the workflow.
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How to Tell Compelling Stories Using Data: Q&A with Dr. Christine Bailey
The more evidence we have, the more likely our ideas are believed - or so we’re conditioned to think . But data doesn’t always engage people; this is where storytelling can help to combine data, insights, and emotion, said Dr. Christine Bailey. She presented techniques to tell compelling stories with data, and showed how that can increase our influence with external and internal stakeholders.
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The Magic of Organizing around Customer Journeys - and How to do it
Organizing around the value delivered to the customer requires maturity in the organization that needs to be built up over time. This article describes eight typical steps that companies are taking in order to mature towards the end goal of becoming a true enterprise agile organization, and explains how to move up the ladder.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0
The book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0 by Dominik Maximini is an experience report of the agile transformation journey of NovaTec. Maximini shares his experiences from applying principles and practices from Management 3.0, success stories, failure stories, and learnings from experiments.
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Rediscovering Lean
For those who love continuous improvement, software engineering fits. Turn in any direction and you’ll see potential for doing better, going faster and increasing quality. You should not try to chase the latest and greatest agile practices. Instead, spend time working out your unique approach based on the goal you have been given, the people you have, and the underlying principles that you hold.
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A Different Meaning of CI - Continuous Improvement, the Heartbeat of DevOps
This personal experience report shows that political in-house games and bad corporate culture are not only annoying and a waste of time, but also harm a lot of initiatives for improvement. Whenever we become aware of the blame game, we should address it! DevOps wants to deliver high quality. The willingness to make things better - products, processes, collaboration, and more - is vital.
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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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MOOtopia – Adapting the Spotify Model at MOO
The Spotify Model may be a good starting point, but you need to adapt it to suit your needs. This is the story of how MOO has adapted the organizational structure within Tech and Product based on the Spotify Model, and has then evolved that initial design into something that meets their current needs.
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Test Automation: Prevention or Cure?
A lot of teams have the tendency to view test automation as a way of speeding up delivery of software, as this is often the perceived bottleneck within the team, but if they were to take a deeper look at their development practices as a whole, they may get better results.
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Q&A on the Book Designing the Future
The book Designing the Future by James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker shows how companies are using Lean Product and Process Development to create new products and services and become innovative. It explores how to get the most from LPPD by developing a system of people, process and the right tools at the right time.
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Continuous Delivery - It’s Not All about Tech!
It’s easy to get caught up in the technical side of continuous delivery. Objectively observing all stages of the releases in action allows measuring the release process to find non-tech factors hindering your releases and the bottlenecks and queues. Make sure your communication methods are effective, and that all the people involved are genuinely working together well.
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The New Killer Apps: Teamwork and Weak Signal Detection Lessons from the Military
There are a lot of great teamwork and weak signal detection lessons from the military that can help forward-leaning leaders create the organizational agility and safety they need to survive and thrive on their own terms in this VUCA world. This article explores how teamwork and weak signal detection lessons from the military are becoming “The New Killer Apps.”