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Elastic Product Models

What do we build next? What do users want? How do we validate a product? These frequent product questions can be addressed with models and tools. Elastic Tribe favors to first use models because thinking and "why" drive the execution. After a strategy is formulated,…

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Top 3 DevOps Practices

DevOps is the special forces of software development. Its mission is to breakdown barriers between development and operations to unlock benefits in how we design, develop, deploy and support software. During my tenure at Hailo, DevOps started as a central team and later transitioned to central…

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Culture Comes First

Do you have a favorite project you have worked on? Mine was the redesign and re-platform of www.topgear.com. It was a great project because the culture came first. Before Scrum team hiring started, myself and my Product Manager influenced a desired culture based on project…

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A High Performance Team Model

Can you identify a high performance team? Have you been part of one? High performance teams are a league of their own because no two teams are the same. How a team interacts can set a level of communication, collaboration and adaptation that can result…

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Manage Energy, Not Time

"I just found a critical bug … sorry, the launch will be delayed again." Does it sound familiar? We have all relied on time tracking to hit a live date. Time can be easily measured and assigned to project milestones, but understanding human behavior is…

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