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Article: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - April 2024

InfoQ Culture Methods

The Culture and Methods trends report discusses evolving roles within teams, the way the staff plus roles are able to add value, the use and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote work continues to evolve, a lack of diversity is still a challenge, and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate conscious software engineering By Shane Hastie, (..)

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3 key metrics for cybersecurity product managers

TechCrunch

Context matters a lot, and the realities of different organizations, geographies, cultures and market segments heavily influence what can be measured and what actions can be taken based on these observations. Conversion rate Conversion rate is one of the most important metrics companies, and subsequently — product teams, obsess about.

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Article: How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale. By Ramsay Ashby, Laz Allen

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Workplace griping: The key release valve your culture lacks

CIO

The effect is non-linear, and there’s no tracking metric that lets managers know crankiness is reaching critical mass. One employee who needs to vent and has no one to vent to makes the aggregate workforce an increment crabbier. A bit more. Not that it isn’t the true lead story; it just isn’t the best way to sell it.

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Quantifying a Culture of Innovation

Examining five years of anonymous data from over 6 million users in 170+ countries, Spigit has discovered that a culture of innovation can be measured – with a 99% statistical confidence level – by a metric called "ideation rate." Download the eBook now for an in-depth look at this groundbreaking study.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

CIO

According to the Gallup State of the Global Workforce 2023 Report , 41% of respondents attributed their lack of engagement to leadership and the workplace culture. You can stop the quiet quitting by improving your work culture, so your people speak up before they nope out. The trick, of course, is doing this well. It’s hard to do.

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The Shift Beyond the Hype: Transitioning from Vanity Metrics to Authentic Business Objectives

Xebia

Introduction Among the sea of metrics, vanity numbers have often taken the spotlight, leaving many organizations lost in a world of misleading indicators and superficial gains. The catch is that many of these metrics (Website views, Leads in Sales Funnel, Marketing spent, Revenue without profit etc.)

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Skyscanner's Journey to a "Continuous Improvement" Team Culture

Speaker: Ramsay Ashby

Team metrics are in vogue, and there is no shortage of literature espousing the value of various combinations of metrics that will lead your team(s) to delivery stardom. They shared what originally took them down this path, including the signs that change was needed and the impact it has had.

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Build Product Progress with a Strong Data Culture

Speaker: Nima Gardideh, CTO, Pearmill

It can be confusing when customer feedback or metrics like registration or retention are painting a different picture. No matter how sophisticated your analytics are, if you're asking the wrong questions - or looking at the wrong metrics - you're going to have trouble getting answers that can help you.

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Build a Successful and Results-Driven Sales Culture

Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies

Likewise, it’s even more important to shape your sales culture into one that is positive, accountable, and metric-driven. Gary Galvin will help you define metrics to drive success, empower your sales team, and create a culture driven by results and accountability. Master 1:1 sales meetings.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The "two pizza" team culture. How Amazon thinks about metrics. Maintaining a culture of DevOps no matter what the size of your organization is.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

However, despite the importance of the customer's voice, it has become one of the most overlooked aspects, leading to a gap between vision and execution on even the most practical metrics. Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how to pivot to a customer-first culture through planning and execution.