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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

That said, if I don’t summarize those labels, you will look elsewhere anyway, so here we go: Squad : effectively a Scrum team with a new name. In addition, all attempts to document a culture are simplifications that are missing details that were important. FitBit, John Deere), grow your own Agile model.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

According to Deloitte research of 2022, 83 percent of “digitally maturing” companies reported using cross-functional teams. For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Open source was (and is) known to be a brutal but effective training ground for software engineers. Example: Amazon One of the earliest commercial companies to figure out the nature of ‘software-debugging’ was Amazon. Example: Google Another company learned the nature of ‘software debugging’ early in its life was Google.

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

Are there processes that you’ve taken on in your work with Zebrium and when it comes to family company, especially running an online service of the SaaS that you found particularly useful? I guess in a small company you don’t need a lot of process, you need really sharp people and you need to treat them with respect.