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Fluidity for the Win!
The long-standing belief that teams are better performing with stable membership, based on Tuckman's model of Team Development, may not be entirely ac…
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Doc Norton
Doc is passionate about working with teams to improve delivery and building great organizations. Once a dedicated code slinger, Doc has turned his energy toward helping teams, departments, and companies work better together in the pursuit of better software. Working with a wide range of companies such as Groupon, Nationwide Insurance, and Belly, Doc has applied tenants of agile, lean, systems thinking, and servant leadership to develop highly effective cultures and drastically improve their ability to deliver valuable software and products.
Event Sessions
If you want to know that you are making progress, you need to measure. You have to be able to compare your current state to a prior state in order to know if you are progressi…
Event Sessions
Some folks swear a microservices architecture is always a good choice and that a monolith architecture is always a bad choice. But is this true? And is this true for…
Event Sessions
You know that area of the code nobody wants to touch? It's been sitting there forever, just doing it's thing. It is a functioning shanty town of code. And you know, as everyon…
Event Sessions
Technical Debt has become a catch-all phrase for any code that needs to be re-worked, much like refactoring has become a catch-all phrase for any activity that involves changi…
Books
Time and time again, I find teams struggling with Velocity as a genuinely helpful metric. In most cases, it is at best a weak tool for planning work and more often a poor tool…