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5 Obtrusive Blockers to Avoid as a Servant Leader

Perficient

The concept of “being a servant” to your teams and treating employees as critical individuals to be cultivated and empowered, has strong merit. However, many organizations fall short, with those at the top of the hierarchy viewing employees as interchangeable cogs in the corporate machine. Poor Communication – You’ve seen it before.

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Quality Assurance outsourcing in the World of DevOps-Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) Quality Assurance Team

Trigent

With outsourced QA being expedited through teams distributed across geographies and locations, many aspects that were hitherto guaranteed through co-located teams have now come under a lot of pressure. Best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams. The challenge is to find the right skill mix.

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Outsourcing QA in the world of DevOps – Best Practices for Dispersed (Distributed) QA teams

Trigent

DevOps is the preferred methodology for software development and release, with collaborating teams oriented towards faster delivery cycles augmented by early feedback. Outlined below some of the best practices for ensuring the effectiveness of distributed QA teams for an efficient DevOps process.

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Exadel Developer Q&A with Ivan Tserashkou Remote and Dispersed Work Tips and Challenges

Exadel

Exadel developers have many years of experience working remotely with dispersed teams located all around the world. In this interview in our Developer Q&A series, we talked about remote and dispersed work tips and challenges with Exadel front-end developer Ivan Tserashkou who works at Exadel, Vitebsk.

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

But, science-based organizations are rigorously quantifying this impact and have learned some sobering lessons: The vast majority of business ideas fail to generate a positive impact. Those statistics should be sobering to any organization. Most companies are unaware of this. Bonuses are often tied to the outcomes of business ideas.

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AoAD2 Practice: Blind Spot Discovery

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. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Testers, Whole Team.

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Connecting the Dots

A List Apart

Beyond functioning in this manner because “it’s the right thing to do,” quality of work, loyalty internally (team) and externally (users), and product innovation are all benefits to reap. Without hesitation, Sara (a former Northwestern University instructor) extended me an offer to join the team for observation.