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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Agile practitioners often refer to the four quadrants that make up the culture of autonomy and alignment. Depicted in figure 1, from Spotify, the general idea is that you would want to be in the top right-hand corner in an Agile environment. Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Introduction People Internal Quality Lovability Visibility Agility Profitability How are you measuring productivity? It was September 2023, my CEO was asking me a question, and my position as Vice President of Engineering was less than three months old. Wed be the engine of a profitable and growing business. Visibility.

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Article: Agile Development Applied to Machine Learning Projects

InfoQ Culture Methods

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

When the original paper was written, they had guilds for Web Technology and Agile Coaches Guild. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Is this just another matrix model, the sort of thing that Agile coaches have been undoing for years? Database, Business Logic, UI).

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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team

Xebia

‘Out of our Xpirit-sight’ I started coaching computer science students from a university on Agile and Growth Mindset. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. As C-level you should understand and truly adopt an Agile mindset.

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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Feature agility is sexy.

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Article: Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.