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How DevOps Can Help You Deal with Overly Aggressive Team Members Leslie Sachs explains what to do when members of your team exhibit overly aggressive or downright combative behaviors. Because you’re unlikely to change your colleagues' modus operandi, it is wise to instead consider how your DevOps effort can benefit from taking into account some typical behaviors of people with Type A or Type B personalities. |
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Management Myth #19: Management Doesn’t Look Difficult From the Outside, So It Must Be Easy Johanna Rothman explains that management work is work, even if it appears that what managers mostly do is run from meeting to meeting. Management work is all about facilitating the work of other people, and when you perform great management, your team can create great products. |
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Keynote: The Art of Change: Influence Skills for Leaders
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An organization’s ability to make improvement, whether for greater agility or other goals, involves two components—a technical component and a people component. The technical component is generally logical, linear, and relatively straightforward, and the technical change agents are... |
Dale Emery, DHE
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An Interview with Steven "Doc" List: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series
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Committed to covering the latest tools, trends, and issues regarding software development approaches, plan-driven development methods, and process improvement programs, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Steven “Doc” List, Santeon Group
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An Interview with Jennifer Bonine: ADC-BSW 2013 Interview Series
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Committed to covering the latest tools, trends, and issues regarding software development approaches, plan-driven development methods, and process improvement programs, Agile Development & Better Software Conference West offers their 2013 interview series. |
Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA Inc.
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Unlocking Innovation in Your Organization
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According to a recent study, more than 60 percent of CEOs cite the need to discover innovative ways of managing their organization’s structure, finances, people, and strategies as their top priority. In order to compete in the 21st century, organizations must rethink how they function... |
Derek Neighbors, Integrum Technologies
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Twenty-One Tips to Be an Effective Leader Payson Hall writes that effective leadership boils down to a few common sense principles. In this article, he assembles twenty-one tips toward becoming (and remaining) an effective leader. Some of the tips include prioritizing, being transparent, and allowing honest mistakes. |
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Can You Manage Business Analysts without Measuring Them? Kent McDonald writes on how to manage business analysts without measuring them. You can do so if you view management as helping business analysts improve their skill sets while helping them be productive members of their team. If, however, you view business analysts as “resources,” you will more than likely find individual measurements quite useful. |
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What Position Do You Play? Micheleen Merritt explains that as an agile coach, you need to take into account all of the participants of a team, not just the developers. If you aren’t acknowledging the quality assurance analysts, business analysts, and product owners, you aren’t coaching the whole team. |
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Combating Learned Complacency to Reduce Systems Glitches Leslie Sachs writes on how employees in many companies have essentially learned to no longer raise their concerns because there is no one willing to listen, and—even worse—they may have suffered consequences in the past for being the bearer of bad tidings. Leslie refers to this phenomenon as learned complacency. |
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