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Boost Team Flow with this Adjacent Disciplines Exercise

Accenture

Organizations are now looking past team lunches and formal recognition programs to meaningful, forward-looking incentives. One of the most intriguing and effective activities you can do with your teams to support their growth is to explore adjacent disciplines. The bottom line: your team is only as strong as its weakest link.

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Leadership and Teamwork

Lead on Purpose

One approach to coaching that is rapidly gaining popularity is what is known as the Double-Goal Coaching Philosophy : emphasis is placed not only on winning, but also on team members’ learning and self-improvement. Nothing discourages initiative and strategic thinking like a hovering, critical manager.

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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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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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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. The Hole Team. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.

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Improve your Product Management with Ellen Gottesdiener

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

How do we improve in the area of product management? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Ellen Gottesdiener, President of EBG Consulting, discuss ways companies can better oversee the development and lifecycle of a product in its entirety. A working definition of product management (1:15).

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Planning for the Outages You’re Going to Cause

LaunchDarkly

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant, laid out strategies software teams can employ to minimize the impact of failure. If you’re interested in joining us at a future Test in Production Meetup, you can sign up here.