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Deciding Better in Organizations

2025-03-29  |   7 minutes

Decisions shape the future – of your team and your company. Learn how to make smarter, faster, and more effective decisions by improving your decision-making process, involving the right people, and avoiding common pitfalls.
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Increase Engineering Productivity by 50% Through Focus and Flow

2024-06-01  |   7 minutes

Keeping developers focused and in the zone can boost productivity by 50%. But how do you create such an environment? Beyond cutting down on meetings, this article offers eight practical tips to help your team work better. From working together on tasks to writing clear documentation, find out how to make your software team more productive and less stressed.
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Collaboration for Introverts: The Myth of the solo-working Introvert

2023-11-11  |   9 minutes

Learn how to make teamwork better for everyone, including introverts. This article shares tips on how introverts and extroverts can work well together, improving productivity and teamwork. Find out simple ways to build a happier, more inclusive, and effective team.
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Benefits of Collaboration

2023-11-04  |   6 minutes

This article explains why working together as a team is better than working alone most of the time. It discusses how teamwork helps make better decisions, learn faster, and solve complex problems. You'll also find tips on how to work well in a team and why it's still okay to work alone sometimes.
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How outstanding teams form without team-building exercises

2023-10-28  |   5 minutes

Discover how remote teams excel without relying on traditional team-building activities. Uncover the essentials of effective remote teamwork in this article.
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Improving Developer Experience, Level 4: Optimizing Feedback Loops: Tools, Tests, and Teamwork

2023-09-02  |   6 minutes

A responsive development environment, automated tests managed by engineers, and distinct deployments from releases are key. Embrace real-time code reviews for immediate insights. The intersection of automation, collaboration, and swift feedback defines developer success. How are your feedback loops?
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Improving Developer Experience, Level 2: Belonging, Collaboration, and Communication

2023-08-19  |   6 minutes

Exploring the Maslow Pyramid of DevEx, this article delves into the crucial elements of Belonging, Collaboration, and Communication in enhancing Developer Experience. Discover the significance of team cohesion, optimal collaboration practices, and the power of open communication.
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Ways to Decrease Performance: Daily Standups

2023-07-22  |   10 minutes

Teams are encouraged to experiment with new ways of working, reflecting on their processes and continuously adapting to ensure they are not merely 'doing agile' but truly being agile in their approach. Exploring the concept of daily standups, this article challenges their routine use in agile teams and urges teams to question their effectiveness. Highlighting various issues such as fostering individualism, leading to irrelevant information exchange, and potentially delaying the addressing of obstacles, it sheds light on the unexpected pitfalls of this common practice.
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The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre in Existing Systems – It does not work!

2023-04-15  |   8 minutes

The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre is unlikely to work in existing sociotechnical systems of a certain size and stability. It is even less likely to work in remote companies and distributed teams.
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Weekly Kickoff: Reconnect and Kickstart as a Team

2023-04-08  |   9 minutes

The weekly kickoff is a fantastic way to start your week as a team together. For our team, this was probably the most important event of the week, and we loved it. It allowed us enough structure and flexibility to satisfy our needs and to set us up for a productive and successful week. In this article I describe the structure and elements of our weekly kickoff.
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