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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

CIO

And, on the flip side, it’s just as important to be mindful of team chemistry and take action when there’s a problem, says Srini Kadiyala, CTO of OvalEdge. Don’t be afraid to swiftly move individuals that do not make the team perform better out of the team,” he says. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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Performance Appraisals Update

scruminc

Impediments of Performance Appraisals. The research on performance appraisal shows that they: Demotivate employees. 70% of content is about the manager, not the employee, and the remainder often does not accurately reflect employee performance because the manager does not really know day to day what happens (the team does).

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Watch Distributed Teams Webinar

scruminc

Learn how Scrum events coordinate and focus communication, foster transparency and get work to Done. JJ Sutherland chief executive officer, scrum inc. As CEO of Scrum Inc, JJ is responsible for the strategic direction of the company. He is also the co-author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.

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Motivation to Get Better

Agile42

Since Zingat is in a highly competitive business and being agile is the only way for them to be responsive to the market needs, they have been using Scrum and agility practices for a long time. We offered them our Team Coaching Framework which is a revolutionary initiative by agile42 to speed up the team learning process and performance.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One. These capabilities are then delivered using Scrum/agile methodologies in frequent, low-risk deployments to production, eventually leading to the launch of an end-to-end product.”

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. The User Stories at the core of Agile/Scrum development style are essential for translating customer intent into feature development. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). Look out for FrankenCloud How can you tell when you live on a Frankencloud?

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Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear. It’s a team that’s high-performance.