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Critiquing the Scaled Agile Framework, With Relevance for Followers of Any Process

The Product Coalition

Recently, a colleague of mine complained, “SAFe is so waterfally” I’ve actually done a few waterfall projects and the Scaled Agile… Continue reading on Product Coalition ยป

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Cargo Cult Agile

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another. like all other agile frameworks?โ€”?isnโ€™t

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Experience with Java and JVM econsystems Experience with Cloud-based technologies such as AWS, Lambda, Fargate, and others Scrum/Agile methodology Has lead design, implementation, and deployment of multiple medium-sized to large-sized software projects.

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Webinar Recording: Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning and AOP with SAFeยฎ for Agile Organizations

Agile Velocity

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, โ€œMastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ยฎ for Agile Organizationsโ€, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Now, how do you do that?

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Security at Intercom: How our InfoSec team protects our customersโ€™ data and trust

Intercom, Inc.

We do that by: Investing in your trust through compliance with industry security and privacy ISO standards or frameworks such as SOC 2. Thatโ€™s why we embedded Intercomโ€™s InfoSec team within the R&D org and why it reports directly to the CTO, meaning that we are closer to this risk while retaining company-wide visibility and impact. .

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4 Keys to Empowering Your Product Team

Mind the Product

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. One of our clients is a deep believer in agile and that agile teams are self-determining. So why does something that is supposed to be good go wrong?

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A little love from our customer

BrainMates

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. “Agile doesn’t tell you to do anything that isn’t already obvious to most people,” says Paul.