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Choosing Between Contractors and Consultants: What’s the Best Decision?

Tandem

Companies are looking for professionals who possess a deep understanding of programming languages, system architecture, and agile methodologies. The right professional has both the necessary technical skills and a deep understanding of your specific industry and business goals. What’s the difference between the two?

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Cargo Cult Agile. Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. Technical skills. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated! Whole Team.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. -- Melvin Conway. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures. team organization works at cross-purposes to feature development.

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The Scaling Dilemma

LeanEssays

“One of the most scalable organizations in human history was the Roman army. Fry found that the way to build a scalable organization is to focus on the basic building blocks – small, stable, multidisciplinary teams that are expected to independently tackle problems, make decisions, and get things done. Over my dead body.”