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How Agile Meetings Impact Arousal Levels and Team Productivity

Apiumhub

In Agile environments, maintaining focus is crucial to achieving optimal performance, especially in complex tasks like software development. We will also examine how Agile meetings offer solutions to mitigate these disruptions. However, the issue arises when meetings are scheduled outside of this Agile framework.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them. In the study by Dale Carnegie, 73% of leaders felt their culture was very good or better concerning others being accountable, compared to 48% of team members.

Culture 211
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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

CIO

Structured frameworks such as the Stakeholder Value Model provide a method for evaluating how IT projects impact different stakeholders, while tools like the Business Model Canvas help map out how technology investments enhance value propositions, streamline operations, and improve financial performance.

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

TechCrunch

This lean, agile model has been extremely successful over the past two decades — launching thousands of successful startups, some of which have grown into billion-dollar companies. However, building high-performing products and solutions that work for the majority isn’t enough anymore.

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How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

See inside the operations of top performing customer experience teams, and improve your organization’s CX outcomes. Topics will include: Cultivating Operational Agility: Leadership, Culture, and How New Tech Like Headless, Composable/MACH and Low Code Change the Game.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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Artificial Intelligence, Performance and Employee Motivation: Agile and Leadership Perspective

Agile42

While researching the impact of artificial intelligence usage in the workplace on employee performance, I’m also investigating leadership interactions with AI and the situation in this context. Continue reading Artificial Intelligence, Performance and Employee Motivation: Agile and Leadership Perspective at agile42.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. Data-driven performance reviews help to align employee goals and team goals with company goals. How data-driven performance reviews do that.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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Digital Workplace Experience Conference: Resilience & Agility in Disruptive Times

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Performance Management Best Practices That Bring Coaching & Appreciation Plus Tools for Continuous Improvement. Topics will include: Top-Notch Engagement Program Strategies that Create Community & Drive Collaboration. The Role of IT, Intranets & the Digital Workplace in Employee Experience. Lunch is on us for attendees.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The result was enabling developers to rapidly release and iterate software while maintaining industry-leading standards on security, reliability, and performance.

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Resilient Machine Learning with MLOps

As a result, many organizations are seeking new ways to overcome challenges — to be agile and rapidly respond to constant change. Today’s economy is under pressure from inflation, rising interest rates, and disruptions in the global supply chain. We do not know what the future holds.