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How Canadian Tire CIO & CTO balances lessons learned and leading with purpose

CIO

Having celebrated its 100th anniversary last year, Canadian Tire has had to perform some deft manoeuvring in the last couple of years to become more agile. Because we were already down this journey, it helped accelerate the move toward an agile operating model where you combine business and technology teams under a single structure.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in 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. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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Agile Bonuses – The Damage They Do

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Of course, from our experience in the agile world, we know that most targets are either outright dangerous (e.g. Here’s a hint right out of the gate if you’re new to Agile: you never want to measure anything for one person. Done -> Quality – Scrum includes a Definition of Done as a quality leveler. Individual Bonuses.

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AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in 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. Invest in Agility. As we saw in the previous chapter, in order for your teams to get the benefits of Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. Second Edition cover.

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Transforming IT for cloud success

CIO

You definitely have to look at your own IT [department] structure with any kind of cloud adoption,” he says. “IT Here’s how he did it: Holden hired cloud architects , who brought cloud integration experience and training to the agile methodology Holden embraced. He also trained existing staffers in cloud skills and the agile method.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum. Without further ado: What Is Agile (Overview)?

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The Real Reasons for Doing Test-Driven Development ??

Xebia

Do you participate in any form of sports? The definition of simplicity that I like best comes from the agile manifesto : Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential. As you will see, TDD is also built on top of that foundation. But first, a few words about why all this even matters.