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Author Archives: Sven Peters
5 Great Books For Better Teamwork
In the last 10+ years I’ve studied teamwork by talking to a lot of teams in different organizations. Besides that, I’ve read a lot of books on this topic to compare my findings with those from others. Not surprisingly I found a lot of overlap in some of those books. Here are my top 5Continue reading “5 Great Books For Better Teamwork”
Building Autonomous Teams
I know that autonomous teams sound scary for a lot of organizations and leaders: How do we align those teams? How do we know they’re making progress? How do we compare them with other teams? I’ve been working for organizations that were afraid of implementing autonomous teams because they were fearing a lack of control.Continue reading “Building Autonomous Teams”
7 Bots That Help Improve Your Development
Now I call them robots or short bots. You might call them scripts, services, helper tools or simply automation of tasks. If we see that we repeatedly doing the same task over and over again it is time to automate our software development. Let’s see how far we can go and where bots are used byContinue reading “7 Bots That Help Improve Your Development”
Empowering Developers – The Next Generation Coder
I’m going to a lot of software development conferences and working in some program committees trying to select sessions about the hottest new trends. If you do this for a few years you see hypes come & go like SOA, ESB, MapReduce, BPM and so on. But once in a while there is a revolutionContinue reading “Empowering Developers – The Next Generation Coder”
Team Building – Winning & Losing As A Team
This part of the Summer of Culture blog series There have been written a lot of books about team building and the psychology behind this. There are a lot of courses, seminars, talks about this complex topic and I don’t think this post can explain all of it. I just want to share some tips forContinue reading “Team Building – Winning & Losing As A Team”
Have a DOmocracy
This is part of the Summer Of Culture blog series. Coordinating work across teams is a real big challenge. Each product and organization is different and so have different needs in how they scale. I’ve seen a lot of companies struggle with scaling teams and being agile. Here are some problems when more than oneContinue reading “Have a DOmocracy”
Summer of Culture – The Beginning
This is the first part of a blog post series about company culture. I’m planning to write 5 posts in the upcoming 2 months about certain aspects of creating a great culture. What is company culture? I guess this is the hardest thing to explain, so why not ask Wikipedia about it? “Culture includes theContinue reading “Summer of Culture – The Beginning”
How Fixing Paper Cut Bugs Makes Customers & Developers Happier
When doing sprint planning meetings we always care about the big user stories. Stories that help the users solve real big problems. But what about the small things that hides in our backlog? These got almost forgotten, marked as “’should be fixed” but “not so important”. Sometimes it would be just a 3 hour jobContinue reading “How Fixing Paper Cut Bugs Makes Customers & Developers Happier”
10 Reasons Why Every Team Needs a Chat
In the year 2004 I was working in a development team and one guy suggested to use chat. I didn’t see the advantage to chat with other team mates next door. I could stand up and talk to them directly or pick up the phone. The chat client looked so ugly, I didn’t get notifiedContinue reading “10 Reasons Why Every Team Needs a Chat”
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