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Process

The Executives Step-by-Step Guide to Leading Large-Scale Agile Transformation

A few years ago everyone wanted to know how to convince their executives to go agile. Today’s executives are asking their teams how they’ll get them there. While we have […]

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People

Performance Reviews that don’t Suck

Many in the agile community suggest abandoning performance reviews, but few offer suggestions for alternatives. A large percentage of software developers work in an enterprise environment where performance reviews are […]

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People

Servant Learnership: Exploring Teacher, Student & Community to grow better Agile Coaches

What is the difference between *decent trainings* and a series of *profound, life-trajectory-altering experiences*? We’ve all attended good trainings where we’ve picked up a few useful new tools to add […]

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Technology

6 days/week with 20hr of engineering/day and multiple releases in one day – Yahoo Search

Enterprise distributed Agile model sounds very hard and complicated. In fact yes, it is not easy but there are ways to make it work. When we joined Yahoo Web Search […]

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Technology

Measuring DevOps: the Key Metrics that Matter

How is your DevOps transformation coming along? How do you measure Agility? Reliability? Efficiency? Quality? Culture? Success?! How do you optimize your software delivery processes? You can’t improve what you […]

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People

The Manager Role for Enterprise Agility – this is what good looks like

This session explores the top 10 "good practices" in good agile and good management that help medium and large organizations reach enterprise agility.

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Process

How Better, Faster, Cheaper Happens – The Economics of Enterprise Agility

*Better, Faster, Cheaper* – business guys want all that Agile pixie dust. But, they don’t really know what Agility is about and how the “magic” happens. They don’t know how […]

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Technology

Test Automation: Agile Enablement for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Teams

Regardless of whether your data warehousing (DW)/business intelligence (BI) team is dedicated to Scrum, a fan of Kanban, or focused on XP, “Agile” in any form calls for small increments […]

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Technology

Technical Debt: OK, It’s Bad. Now What Do We Do About It?

This Agile2016 session and accompanying webinar explores technical debt and identifies some things you can do to address it. Inspired by work done on the Technical Debt Initiative.

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People

Don’t just do something, stand there! Why being “productive” is slowing us down.

What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? What’s getting in your way? Three questions commonly asked at Daily Scrum meetings imply expending effort is the purpose of […]

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People

The Business of Agile: Better, Faster, Cheaper

During my last agile transformation a key stakeholder asked me, “Why are we doing this?” I talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with […]

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Business

Persona Based Teams – The Ultimate Focus

Do your teams feel disconnected from their customers? Do they know who uses the software you build? Perhaps they lack inspiration because they don’t experience the value that they’re delivering […]

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People

Dynamic reteaming: how we thrived by rebuilding teams

Who says you need “stable” teams in order to build a successful software company? While the addition or removal of one person from a team means you have a “new […]

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People

How to Create Leaders at All Levels

Organizations that need to respond to a fast-changing environment and desire continuous improvement can’t wait for the chain of command or rely on detailed rules and procedures. They need a […]

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People

Meeting resistance and moving forward

It’s “those skeptical people” who are most annoying. They don’t seem to listen to our ideas. They usually start raising objections before we have even finished describing what we are […]

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Process

Stop Using Agile with Waterfall Goals: Goal Agility with OKR (Objectives and Key Results)

Although we have been using Agile mindset and processes tactically, when it comes to strategy and goal setting the waterfall command&control mindset is still the norm. Most organizations are still […]

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People

The Secrets of Facilitating Retrospectives and other Meetings

This session shows what to focus on preparing for a retrospective, how to have the "right" attitude as a facilitator, and how to ensure smooth group decisions.

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Process

Agile Program Management: Measurements to See Value and Delivery

Do you have measurement dysfunction on your program? Are you trying to measure teams and extrapolate each team’s status to the program? That doesn’t work. Teams have personal status, and […]

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