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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. However, the policies and procedures increase friction and make it harder to get the Right Things done. Yet, the policies and procedures remain.

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How Well Do Your Policies Create Desired Outcomes and Trust?

Johanna Rothman

Every organization has policies of some sort. The smaller the organization, the fewer policies you might have. And, the larger the organization, the more policies you might think you need. I keep encountering policies that prevent people from delivering the outcomes the organization wants. Why have policies anyway?

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. ??

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Top Six eCommerce QA Tips: What to Undertake to Keep Ahead of the Competition

The Product Coalition

The pressure is only increasing due to the influence of the pandemic, as more consumers begin to shift their preference to the comforts of home. Unfortunately, within the eCommerce field, high-priced data breaches occur frequently due to the influx of pandemic-related web traffic.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

This approach can free up internal resources, reduce time to market, and provide access to niche skills, especially in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. Development: Frontend, backend, API integration, agile sprints.

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What are Microservices? A Path to Scalability and Agility

eG Innovations

If developing scalable, agile applications is a priority for your business, microservices may provide a compelling solution. Different services can use technologies best suited to their specific needs. Flexibility in Development One key benefit of microservices is their flexibility in terms of technology and development methodologies.

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Continuous Improvement: How It’s Important for Software Developers

The Product Coalition

Continuous improvement, like agile development, refers to a different change model reinforcing traditional custom software development literature. Agile development boosts incremental change and continuous improvement in the development and deployment processes. What is continuous improvement ?