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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

Of course, those platforms can only perform properly when the strength of the people behind them are optimized. So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. For us, it’s about enabling the technology platforms that support and deliver on that.”

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You are what you Git: how your VCS branching model affects your delivery cadence

CircleCI

The characteristics of our flow, like short lived branches, and fast deployment cycles, have been shown to correlate with high performance teams. We keep a constant eye on the balance between mean times between failure and time to recovery, between reliability and agility. Our model synergizes extremely well with CI/CD best-practices.

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3 Ways Cluster Sprawl Creates Significant Waste and Risk For Your Organization

d2iq

Lack of Visibility and Management As various parts of the organization require new Kubernetes clusters, it becomes increasingly difficult to know where they exist, how they are performing, and to govern the usage and versions of cloud native software to support application efforts.

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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization

Datavail

You can also take this opportunity to implement new methodologies such as DevOps and agile that help make your IT teams more productive and efficient. Before you begin, make sure you choose the most informative metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), so that you can track the project from onset to completion and beyond.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

The economic downturn is creating more uncertainty and business disruption than ever before, and organizations face the pressure to adopt more flexible, remote, and agile-based ways of working in order to keep their businesses afloat. DevOps represents a change in IT culture. The case for DevOps leadership.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

Cross-functional teams in Agile Agile project management can be characterized by iterative development. So cross-functional teams play a critical role in Agile as the product increment has to undergo all the stages of development in a short period of time (e.g. Get to know more about the Spotify engineering culture.