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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. This can help managers support their teams, clear the path, and improve productivity by stepping out of the way as much as possible. Poor Communication – You’ve seen it before.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. and now it’s time for an update.

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In what follows, we flesh out the three assertions above with the bulk of the content explaining why it may be difficult to improve the poor success rate for business ideas. That is, the team responsible for doing the analysis often is motivated either implicitly or explicitly to find evidence of success.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options

TechCrunch

Part 3: Developer relations and business : How CockroachDB engages with developers while pivoting to the cloud at a key inflection point. Vohra articulated a system that other entrepreneurs should be able to apply to their own businesses, regardless of area or focus.

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Automating the Automators: Shift Change in the Robot Factory

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. ” I, thankfully, learned this early in my career, at a time when I could still refer to myself as a software developer.

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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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Leaders: Born or Made? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. If those three qualities are present, everything else can be developed. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor.