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5 Tales of Leadership from India

Accenture

He had come on a ten-day trip to India to select an Indian offshore company to be his Agile provider for software development services. He had already met with many top software providers to learn about their ability to deliver high-quality software and demonstrate Agile software development capabilities. It’s not magic: it’s Agile.

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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? Drawing on his 40 years in the software industry, GeePaw’s solution is to develop a thick culture in which certain standards are established across the industry. Defining Thick Culture, Thin Culture, and the Frame (4:01).

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Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. It is one of the ways you can organise your engineering teams in a retail environment.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. For a team to be Agile, they need to change their method to reflect the Agile philosophy.

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Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of organizations. The culture gap can be hard to cross. Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). Show Notes.

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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.” This role doesn’t change whether an engineering org is 5, 500, or 5000 strong.