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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. In the West, it’s come to mean a process of continuous gradual improvement: constantly reviewing and improving your practices at all levels of the organization. Focus team-level managers on managing their work system rather than individuals and tasks.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. If not, you can hire consultants. Some Agile consultants have change management experience and can guide both aspects of your Agile adoption. Focus team-level managers on managing their work system rather than individuals and tasks. Counterintuively.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. The old career ladder emphasized understanding advanced technologies and building complex systems. Senior engineers know how to refactor those class abstractions, and they use that skill to simplify the design of the system.