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

Xebia

‘Out of our Xpirit-sight’ I started coaching computer science students from a university on Agile and Growth Mindset. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. As C-level you should understand and truly adopt an Agile mindset.

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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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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Feature agility is sexy.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.