Tag: Teams
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Yes, cross-functional teams -- but real ones!
Posted on December 19, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Jutta Eckstein and John Buck on hot topic of cross-functional teams. If you start with Agile, one of the first things you typically do is come up with a team. And yes of course, the team will be cross-functional. But what's actually meant by cross-functionality?
Tags devops agile web-development teams
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Peer reviews either sandbag or propel Agile development
Posted on July 18, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Patrick Londa posted interesting article on topic of peer review process and its impact on Agile success. Working on a fast-moving Agile team, one needs to continually build consensus so that there is not a communication backlog.
Tags programming agile teams
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How to be Agile with distributed teams
Posted on May 14, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Older article by Hugo Messer and John Okoro about Agile distributed teams. Distributed teams are the norm for many organisations today. Companies are global, communications technologies allow people to live away from the "office" location and many of the new workforce are nomads.
Tags agile programming teams
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Agile architecture -- strategies for scaling agile development
Posted on April 28, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Agilemodeling in which they focus on important aspect of architecture in agile scaling. Contrary to popular belief, architecture is an important aspect of agile software development efforts. An architecture is a critical part of scaling agile approaches to meet the real-world needs of modern organizations.
Tags web-development agile teams programming
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How to organize your thoughts on whiteboard and crush your technical interview
Posted on April 21, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Doug Arcuri piece on organizational skills and the applied science of gluing lots of things together in the craft of software engineering. Author empathizes with those who experience technical interviews that are not classically trained.
Tags programming agile career teams
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Parallel development is killing your productivity!
Posted on April 15, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Mike Hall to the point article about similarity between content switching and parallel development. Parallel Development is working multiple projects or features at the same time. Parallel Development has, unfortunately, become commonplace in industry and accepted as the default standard way of organizing work.
Tags programming management agile teams
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The 4 Inflection Points of Company Culture
Posted on March 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot, wrote this interesting article about lessons from HubSpot's journey from startup to scaleup. HubSpot is inbound marketing and sales software that helps companies attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers.
Tags agile teams career
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Onboard people, not technology
Posted on December 21, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Marcus Blankenship article in which he focuses on onboarding process in software companies. He rightly points out that setting up a productive dev environment isn't onboarding.
Tags agile teams programming
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How Hotjar built 100% distributed company
Posted on October 24, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Short article about creating a distributed company. Working remotely 100% of the time may be a dream for many of us. But as much as it sounds exciting and easy, it comes with major challenges. From author's own experience, bad internet connection which makes you repeat yourself endlessly is just the beginning.
Tags agile teams
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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Posted on March 30, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Charles Duhigg's extensive and honest article about open-minded scientific techniques brought to bear on helping people to function more effectively.
Tags agile google teams