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Strategy

The Agile Manager

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

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Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . The False Developer Quality Equivalency .

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SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Tasktop

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . As a result, many teams have 18 developers and only one QA,” said Heather Munoz, Head of the Retail Brokerage Practice at E*Trade, on a recent podcast interview. . The False Developer Quality Equivalency .

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second. Auto Scaling is on by default for all new tables and indexes. Ten years ago, we never would have imagined the lasting impact our efforts on Dynamo would have.

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