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Boost Team Flow with this Adjacent Disciplines Exercise

Accenture

A recent white paper “What Moves You” by the Business Agility Institute revealed that as business agility continues to flourish, so will the focus on employee engagement. Organizations are now looking past team lunches and formal recognition programs to meaningful, forward-looking incentives.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

Looking beyond operations, do leaders and managers have collaboration tools, real-time reporting dashboards, and forecasting machine learning models to aid in decision-making? How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios? Does your organization have the culture to support software development?

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What, Exactly, Is Agile Management?

The Agile Manager

Engineers have long had a poor relationship with managers. There are the stories long told of engineers unconstrained by management executing high stakes skunkworks projects, or more modestly using guerilla tactics to sneak unauthorized features into products that delight users. This all seems different in Agile.

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Future Perspective for Change: Why Backcasting Helps Get You Where You Want to Be

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

When a product team starts work on a product, it’s important that they understand the vision. Over the process of a few hours these activities get the Developers and Customers to a common understanding of what problem they’re attempting to solve. Too often the answer is, “ To be Agile ”. Who is involved.

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Outsourcing QA in the world of DevOps – Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) QA teams

Trigent

DevOps is the preferred methodology for software development and release, with collaborating teams oriented towards faster delivery cycles augmented by early feedback. Outlined below some of the best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams for an efficient DevOps process.

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AoAD2 Practice: Energized Work

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Coaches, Whole Team. Eat healthy foods, exercise, and get plenty of sleep.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. Cargo Cult Agile. The Hole Team. Second Edition cover.