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The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste

Accenture

In 2014 Frederick Kniburg posted an article describing how a small music player company in Sweden organized some of their development teams. The objective of becoming an Agile organization is mastering the sensing, experimenting, thinking, and learning adaptation cycle. Not convinced?

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The data engineer is also expected to create agile data architectures that evolve as new trends emerge. Understand the cultural foundations of Agile, DevOps, and DataOps. Bad architecture is authoritarian and tries to cram a bunch of one-size-fits-all decision into a big ball of mud.

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Letting change and uncertainty advance your software architecture

CircleCI

The market is changing, our business is evolving, our customer base is growing, and our team is scaling. After that scaling phase, you’ll have a larger organization and far more teams. Then the cost of change will be proportional to the amount of cross-team coordination required to make a change. That was bad.

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Continuous Development: ‘Times Are a-Changin’

LaunchDarkly

When I first started doing product development at EMC and then later at VMware, we used development frameworks like “ waterfall ” to release new features every couple of years. There are two high-level buckets that any feature development falls into — updates to existing features and workflows and net-new functionality.

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AoAD2 Practice: Safety

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. Understanding Team Effectiveness. Second Edition cover.

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5 Tales of Leadership from India

Accenture

Back in 2014, I had an interesting conversation over dinner with the CEO of a large office supply organization based out of United States. He had come on a ten-day trip to India to select an Indian offshore company to be his Agile provider for software development services. It’s not magic: it’s Agile.

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AoAD2: Choose Your Agility

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. Choose Your Agility. Real talk: There’s no point in Agile for the sake of Agile.

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