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Ways to Decrease Performance: Daily Standups

July 22, 2023

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.

Ways to Decrease Performance: Velocity Tracking

July 15, 2023

Discover why velocity tracking, a popular Agile practice, might be hindering your team’s performance more than helping it. While it might seem beneficial at first, over-reliance on velocity can lead to burnout, overestimation of work, and neglect of long-term benefits. Learn about the pitfalls and start thinking critically about your Agile practices. Remember, it’s not about knowing your speed — it’s about moving in the right direction sustainably.

Default-to-Open: A Principle for High-Performance Organizations

April 22, 2023

High-performing Organizations make sure that everybody has the information they need to do their job with alignment, autonomy and excellence. Default-to-open can help to ensure this.

Weekly Kickoff: Reconnect and Kickstart as a Team

April 8, 2023

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.

Deep Work and Collaboration in Platform- and Enabling-Teams

April 1, 2023

Keeping the balance between deep work and being available for other teams can be especially challenging for platform- and enabling-teams. In this article I share the mechanisms that the developer experience team at BRYTER used to sucessfully maintain this balance.

Deep Work is a Team Effort

March 25, 2023

Deep work and team work are not mutual exclusive but deeply interconneted. Collaborating as a team is the purest and most efficient form of deep work and can help your team to achieve peak performance.

7 Tips for more Deep Work for Individuals

March 18, 2023

Maintaining amble of focus and deep work time as an individual is a critical precondition of being part of a high-performing team. In this article I will give seven tips on how to get more deep work time throughout your week.

The Benefits of Remote Work for Developer Teams: Increased Productivity and Better Work-Life Balance

February 18, 2023

Unlock the potential of your developer team with remote work! Discover the key benefits of working from home, including increased productivity, better work-life balance, and improved collaboration. Learn how remote work can help your team work more efficiently and effectively, and create a more flexible, fulfilling work environment. Read on to learn more!

Make three friends with one gift: Why developer experience is key to productivity, engineering excellence and stakeholder satisfaction.

February 11, 2023

Investing in developer experience leads to improved productivity, better engineering practices, and increased stakeholder satisfaction. Positive developer experience starts with providing access to technology and tools, fostering collaboration, and streamlining workflows. Create a comfortable work environment, offer training opportunities, and invest in your team’s growth to achieve a motivated and productive development team.

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