The agile guide to winning at team development
The forming-storming-norming-performing cycle repeats more often than you might think. Here’s how to navigate each stage with grit and grace.
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Using premortems to calm your nerves and nail that big project
Can you ever say with certainty that your project will be a success? Nope. You can’t. But running a premortem – a thought exercise in which you imagine what could go wrong and decide how to prevent it – in the early or middle stages of your project goes a long way.
Is Parkinson's Law threatening your team's projects?
Think about the last time you worked on a large group project. Go ahead — let out that inevitable groan. Now, think about the last time you worked on a group project that was completed ahead of schedule. Yep, we hear those crickets too. Team projects are notorious for taking far more time than expected, which means you don’t have to go far to find some famous examples.
Be More Productive with Confluence
Whether you're just starting out in Confluence, or working in it every day, join Sven Peters from K15t to discover the "hacks" that will maximize your productivity and make work flow more seamlessly. Transform your content and learn the keyboard shortcuts, layout tricks, automation, and customizations that will make creating beautiful spaces and pages a breeze.
Beyond Jira: The Wall of Work
Over the past few years, Optimizely grew from a single-product company built by a handful of engineers and designers to a multi-product company built by many teams. But, its development processes didn't adapt fast enough to keep up with growth. Engineers had too many dependencies in flight, designers were added too late in the process to be effective, and the highest value work wasn't properly prioritized.
The simplest prioritization tip money can buy
Every time I get into a serious discussion about prioritization with the teams I coach, there’s a moment where someone does a big exhale (the kind where your cheeks puff out) and says “Let’s face it. We’re trying to do way too much and we’re kidding ourselves if we think we can do it at high quality.” And every time, they’re right.
How to Build a Healthy On-Call Culture
Raise your hand if you enjoy being buried in alerts or woken up at 2am? (Yeah... thought so.) Ever-rising customer expectations around high availability and performance put massive pressure on the teams who develop and support SaaS products. And teams are literally losing sleep over it.
DevOps Starts by Knowing Your Numbers
If you want your DevOps initiative to take off, be prepared to provide some metrics! IT organizations that can't quantify their risk factors and exposure are likely to make investments in DevOps where it doesn’t matter. After working with several teams that lost their support for DevOps after making automation investments in areas that weren't important, Anne Hungate's “Know Your Numbers” model emerged.
Your Journey to Cloud-Native Begins with DevOps, Microservices, and Containers
Everyone is excited about cloud-native applications. And for good reason! They're scalable, resilient, portable across cloud environments, and make it easier to incorporate customer feedback quickly. But there's a catch: cloud-native applications fundamentally change the way you provision, deploy, and manage your infrastructure.
After Agile, DevOps, and Lean IT: Modern Methodology in the Age of Disruption
In an age of disruption, increasingly complex and chaotic problems demand emergent or completely novel practices. Decades-old practices no longer work, raising difficult questions about the role of management in a world being disrupted by technology.