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How to introduce transformational leadership traits: How to enable cross-functional collaboration

Managers and Leaders Leaders and managers are two different concepts. Leaders inspire and motivate people around them, while managers make decisions regarding resources, staff, and priorities. The real value of a manager or leader is measured by their ability to amplify the work of their teams, including the ability to deliver code, architect good systems,…

Employee satisfaction, identity, and engagement Employee satisfaction, loyalty and identity are not just feel-good metrics, they are drivers of business outcomes: profitability, productivity, and market share. These metrics can be measured by Net Promoter Score. NPS is most often used to measure how likely a customer is to recommend a product. However, in the context…

Burnout Burnout is a serious threat to employees’ health. It manifests itself in helplessness, a loss of accomplishment, negative feelings from work spilling into personal life, exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced productivity. Burnout turns things you once loved into something dull and insignificant. A pathological, power-oriented culture is often a primary cause of employee burnout. A…

Product Development Four methods that make up the lean methodology proved to have positive impact on team productivity, organization profitability, market share. Additionally they improved team culture and reduces burnout. Making work sustainable We aim to ensure sustainable long-term performance through appropriate methodologies, rather than exhausting human resources for short-term bursts of increased velocity. Deployment…

Information Security practices should be baked in software development process. It should be easy for developers to “do the right thing”. When info-sec becomes a separate process it will most likely be performed at the end of software delivery cycle when it is expensive and painful to improve security. Lean Management Practices Lean management practices…

Architecture According to the authors high performance is possible with all kins of systems (web apps, mobile, embedded systems, greenfield projects …) as long as teams are loosely coupled. This means that teams can easily test and deploy individual components or services. The exception being main frame system, these as well as outsourced software development…

Continuous delivery is characterized by set of capabilities that allow making changes to production safely quickly with sustainable pace. When implemented properly it improves delivery performance, quality, culture, reduce burnout and deployment pain. When implemented correctly, the process of releasing new versions to users should be a routine activity that can be performed on demand…

Ron Westrum typology of organization culture categorizes organizations based on internal flow of information. Pathological organizations are power oriented. They are characterized by high amount of fear and threat. People hoard, distort and withhold the information for political reasons.– responsibilities are shrinked– failure leads to scapegoating – novelty is crushed Bureaucratic organizations are rules oriented.…

The impact of IT performance on organization is huge, it affects organizations ability to achieve and exceed at goals and key objectives. The high performers are twice as likely to exceed in profitability, market share and productivity than low performers. They are also twice as likely to exceed in objectives in quantity of goods and…