Sun.Jul 08, 2018

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How a Leader Can Make 10 Minus One Equal 12 (and other feats of magical math)

Terry Starbucker

Let’s set the scene: we’re eavesdropping on the (fictional) conversation between SVP “Jerry” and his teammate “George”, in Jerry’s office…… “I promise Jerry, I’ll do better – just give me another chance”. This was the third time George was in Jerry’s office in the past 6 months. First it was for some poorly completed work.

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Atlassian: The tools every developer team wants badly

CTOvision

Atlassian is focused like a laser beam on unleashing the potential of every team. Their collaboration software helps teams organize, discuss and complete shared work. Teams at more than 112,000 customers use Atlassian's project tracking, content creation and sharing, real-time communication and service management products to work better together and deliver quality results.

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Why engaged teams are not always the best performers?

Abhishek Tiwari

The assumption that engagement is somehow strongly correlated with performance is misplaced. Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. Moreover, there is hardly any strong scientific evidence suggesting that there is a correlation between high-engagement and high-performance.

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Appian: Accelerating digital transformation

CTOvision

Appian's goal is to accelerate meaningful digital transformation. They would like to enable every company to be a software company. We get the vision. This is exactly what the world needs right now. The Appian Platform makes it faster and easier to drive powerful business innovation through the unification of process, data, collaboration, mobility and more.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Why You Should Go Beyond The Scrum Guide With Scrum.

Net Objectives

The Scrum Guide is the de facto standard for how to do Scrum for Scrum.inc.org.alliance. But at Net Objectives we believe you can and should go beyond it - pragmatism over dogmatism - work over framework. . . There is, of course, a reason that the Scrum guide says "Scrum’s roles, events, artifacts, and rules are immutable." And, if you are starting Scrum out on your own and you have control over your team that's likely a good thing.

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DevOps explained using ToC Logical Thinking Process

ProdOps

The “Goal Tree” for DevOps In an earlier post on DevOps Transformation using Theory of Constraints , I explained how adopting “DevOps” as a buzzword is likely to improve very little in an organization. What is crucial for great results is adopting and understanding the required new policies while forcibly moving away from previous ways of doing things.

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Building Products: Small vs. Large Companies

Codegiant

Comparison of product building between larger companies and startups is a little tricky. There are similarities and differences between team structures, lifestyle, and product focus. To understand the differences between the two, we must understand that a startup is building a product as their lifeblood, as their chance to continue being a company, where an established company is building products under the assertion that the new product will not make or break the company.

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