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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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Cross-functional Team: Composition, Benefits, and Good Practices

Existek

Have you thought about the concept of a cross-functional team? What differentiates it from setting up traditional teams? How can it improve the software development process? In this article, we’ll discuss the characteristics of a cross-functional team, the benefits of having one, and how to build and manage such a team.

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

CIO

But when it comes to actual business, George Al Koura, CISO of online dating company Ruby Life, has built a career on how long-term success depends on building team cohesion within the organization, and elevating the relationship with partners outside it. And I think that’s what it takes.

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Retaining Talent: How To Keep Your Software Developers Happy

iTexico

Retaining Talent: How To Keep Your Software Developers Happy. Take the time out of your day to examine the current state of the software development talent pool. Keep in mind that, at any given moment, for any number of reasons, you may lose this cultivated team of software developers you have. Empower Them.

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DevOps to Ensure Quality in Microservices

Coveros

A modern DevOps approach can help” Your team has followed industry trends and shifted from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservices architecture. The teams that maintain them hide behind poorly defined service APIs and embrace the freedom to move at their own pace.

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Addressing “Management Defects”

Accenture

The momentum of business agility is building, and as it does there will be consequences and side effects. The greatest of all challenges is making certain that the principles and values we teach so enthusiastically to our development teams also take root in organizational leadership. Management MUST learn to let go.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns: Micromanagement

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team. Executives might make suggestions or give orders directly to Team members. Tells Team members how to do their job.

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