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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Everybody who’s first encountering the world of agility, they’re going to encounter it almost always nowadays through some form of either Scrum or SAFe. Is there an approach that you would advocate for, for somebody to start thinking about, “I wonder if scrum is working for me?” GeePaw: Yeah, sure.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

1 To succeed with Agile, follow these steps: 1 The method in this book is primarily based on Extreme Programming, but it also draws inspiration from Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, the DevOps movement, and Lean Startup. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices.

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Scaling Organizational Empathy With Box’s VPE, Saminda Wijegunawardena

Gitprime

In this Perspectives in Engineering interview series, engineering leaders talk about how to build, coach, and scale world-class technology teams. Saminda Wijegunawardena , VP of Engineering at Box, calls this increasing distance “abstraction.”

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). I’m a 30-plus-year veteran, in Silicon Valley, of enterprise software product management. And these days, I coach heads-of-product. Show Notes.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

As a bare minimum, I can think of an engineering organisation of 6 Spotify like squads with each team consisting of 8-10 people including engineers (frontend/backend), BA, PO, and an agile coach. That's an overall engineering organisation of 55+ people including engineering leaders, chapter leads, etc.

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The One Constant with Don Gray

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

Don: We can show a new org chart on the wall for those who’ve been to the coaching beyond the team workshop or gone through human systems dynamics, uh which I believe you’re a part of right now. Marcus: See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Marcus: I am.