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Your Team Is Agile! What about Your Business Model? Getting your software development team to be agile is a big step, but for a complete organizational transformation, the work doesn't end there. You may be surprised to find out where else agile can be implemented to streamline processes and eliminate what's holding your business back. |
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Improving Your Measurements to Influence Behavior Measuring things is easy, but measuring the right things and acting appropriately based on what you have measured is hard. What you do with measurements can influence behavior, so it’s worth putting some thought into what you measure. |
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How to Handle Difficult People The notion of difficult people can make one feel uncomfortable because often it’s not the person that’s difficult, but rather the situation the person is in. Naomi Karten shares some tips to handle these difficult people and testy situations. |
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Reward Your Agile Group with Shorter, Meaningful Meetings The agile standing meeting doesn't require a lot to be successful, although some groups may need to add some flavor to spice up their morning routine. Mike Cohn and other experts share some tips on how to add impact to your meetings, while keeping them concise. |
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The Risks of Implementing BYOD CIOs and IT directors need to know if they are putting themselves at risk when they implement "bring your own device," or BYOD. Joe Townsend considers whether or not the benefits of this business policy outweigh the risks to a company's security. |
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How Team Norms Can Boost Team Effectiveness Team norms—sometimes known as ground rules—revolve around how members of a team will interact, communicate, and conduct themselves as team members. Norm setting gives team members an opportunity to express what's important to them, thus boosting team effectiveness. |
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Agile Enables Google Developers to Find Success in Failure Patrick Copeland, senior engineering director at Google, explains how the company uses their own version of agile-based methodologies to drive their teams to be more creative and unafraid to fail. From the speed of delivery to the quality of the finished product, agile is working at Google. |