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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. The company is also leaning into more mentoring and coaching for existing staff.

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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Culture will eat any structure. When the original paper was written, they had guilds for Web Technology and Agile Coaches Guild. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Is this just another matrix model, the sort of thing that Agile coaches have been undoing for years?

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. Each piece of evidence contributed towards an engineer’s promotion.

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

Xebia

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. ‘Out of our Xpirit-sight’ I started coaching computer science students from a university on Agile and Growth Mindset. Here is my two cents on why and how C-Level should embrace this.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

DevOps represents a change in IT culture. Leaders must inspire their workforce to innovate and create change through encouraging ownership, trusting their teams, and displaying ethical, authentic, and cooperative behavior. Leaders need to be culture builders by carrying the mission and strategy into the team and creating goals.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly enough to build and deliver your wondrous innovations. finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Hiring is so hard?—?finding