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Ben Linders

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Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives, What Drives Quality and Continuous Improvement.

As an adviser, coach and trainer he helps organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver busines…

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What Programmers Can Do to Write Better Code

What Programmers Can Do to Write Better Code

To write better code, programmers have to apply design fundamentals and read existing code, says Martin Thomp…

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Portia Tung on Executive Coaching and Habits of Effective Agile Coaches

Portia Tung on Executive Coaching and Habits of Effective Agile Coaches

An interview with Portia Tung about how executive coaching helps managers to deal with challenges and find wa…

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Q&A with Dave Snowden on Leadership and Using Cynefin for Capturing Requirements

Q&A with Dave Snowden on Leadership and Using Cynefin for Capturing Requirements

Dave Snowden gave a talk titled "Context is Everything" at the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise 2016 congress…

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Why Diversity and Inclusion Matters, and How to Drive It

Why Diversity and Inclusion Matters, and How to Drive It

Leveraging and harnessing different ideas, perspectives and experiences from a talented and capable workforce…

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Building a European Cloud Orchestration Platform within an Enterprise

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Modern cloud deployments involve many tools with different lifecycles, creating a heavy burden on engineers. The Kubernetes ecosystem offers a unified Control Plane approach. Maximilian Techritz and Johannes Ott presented How to Build a European Cloud Orchestration Platform from within an Enterprise at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe. They showed how sharing best practices through tech talks and inner-source collaboration created an engaged community and drove adoption.
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How Lightweight ADRs and Architectural Advice Forums Can Support Architectural Decisions

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Andrew Harmel-Law presented the architecture advice process at GOTO Copenhagen. How we decide is at the core of architecture, and the architecture advice process is a way to decentralize architectural decisions. It needs to be supported by Architecture Decision Records because of the speed at which technology and systems move, and can be complemented by a weekly architecture advice forum.
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Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service

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When a platform started with total developer autonomy, teams felt overwhelmed and ended up solving the same problems in completely different ways, Jerry van Hulst and Marcel Kerker showed in their presentation Ghost in the Platform at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe. They shifted to enablement over support, working together with teams intensively, and helping teams feel confident and capable, turning the right way into being the easiest way.
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