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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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Your Ultimate Guide to Agile Transformation

Agile Velocity

Agile implementation typically focuses on team-level adoption of Agile practices, emphasizing principles such as self-organization, cross-functional collaboration, and incremental delivery. Focus Only on Team Level Agile Transformation initiatives sometimes focus exclusively on individual teams, neglecting the broader organizational context.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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4 tips to improve code quality

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. The estimated costs in damage of this downtime included $60 million in long-distance charges; 200,000 lost airline reservations; and 75 million missed phone calls. Development teams usually create a list of guidelines known as coding conventions.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

However, we’ve had a great team. Liam: Data science is what it’s all about for businesses looking to improve their decision-making by using the information they’re already collecting in their apps and other systems. It’s not like, “I’m going to get really good at this particular thing.”

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Let’s Abandon Customers and Users

Mironov Consulting

I see much broader wins: Our technical teams often make the “I am the user” mistake: we unconsciously assume that the people at the other end of our software are just like us. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. You say potato, I say WTF. Bonus points for clarity.

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Implement This Customer Engagement Strategy and Your Users Will Not Get Enough of Your Product

Userpilot

The more engaged customers move along the user journey the more likely they are to recommend your app (drive WOM), leave positive reviews, and upgrade to a higher plan (expansion revenue). You should be basing your customer engagement on that activity to gain insights and develop strategies to increase that engagement.