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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. Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

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Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

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Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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Agility Meets SAP

Xebia

Applying agile methods in an SAP project is recommended, as they provide flexibility, quicker adaptation to business requirements, and better customer engagement, resulting in successful implementations and increased customer satisfaction. However, this agile transformation in SAP projects presents both opportunities and challenges.

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How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

See inside the operations of top performing customer experience teams, and improve your organization’s CX outcomes. Topics will include: Cultivating Operational Agility: Leadership, Culture, and How New Tech Like Headless, Composable/MACH and Low Code Change the Game.

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. The complexity of today’s digital systems has multiple points of friction that need to be addressed if we are to achieve true business agility.

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AgileNCR: Empowering Knowledge Sharing and Business Agility

Xebia

This year, the conference took place virtually on the vFairs conference platform, attracting over 350 registrations from Agile enthusiasts, speakers, and volunteers from around the world. The conference has always focused on industry trends, best practices, and challenges, empowering enterprises on their journey toward business agility.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. Data-driven performance reviews help to align employee goals and team goals with company goals. How data-driven performance reviews do that.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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Digital Workplace Experience Conference: Resilience & Agility in Disruptive Times

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Performance Management Best Practices That Bring Coaching & Appreciation Plus Tools for Continuous Improvement. Topics will include: Top-Notch Engagement Program Strategies that Create Community & Drive Collaboration. The Role of IT, Intranets & the Digital Workplace in Employee Experience. Lunch is on us for attendees.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance.

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Resilient Machine Learning with MLOps

As a result, many organizations are seeking new ways to overcome challenges — to be agile and rapidly respond to constant change. Today’s economy is under pressure from inflation, rising interest rates, and disruptions in the global supply chain. We do not know what the future holds.