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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Agile practitioners often refer to the four quadrants that make up the culture of autonomy and alignment. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment. Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019.

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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation

CIO

So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.

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What Is DevOps Culture?

Dzone - DevOps

At its essence, a DevOps culture involves closer collaboration and a shared responsibility between development and operations for the products they create and maintain. This helps companies align their people, processes, and tools toward a more unified customer focus.

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Article: Agile Development Applied to Machine Learning Projects

InfoQ Culture Methods

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team

Xebia

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. ‘Out of our Xpirit-sight’ I started coaching computer science students from a university on Agile and Growth Mindset. Agile is a company way of working, not an IT one.

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Article: Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture

DevOps.com

If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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