Helping Teams Embrace Experimentation by Jennifer Parker

With the pace of innovation at an all-time high in 2023 and the promise of even more accelerated innovation in 2024, it’s critical that organizations adopt a framework and mindset for creating space within teams to promote new ideas. It’s our job as technology leaders to foster this through empathy and modeling these behaviors in 2024 and beyond. As we start off 2024, my wish for teams is for lots of great failures that lead to some amazing insights and breakthroughs.

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Microsoft Conferences Converge - 2023 edition by Jennifer Parker

This week was a busy week in the world of Microsoft conferences. We had both Microsoft Ignite 2023 and dotnetconf to herald in .net 8.

There were so many incredible announcements that my head started spinning with the possibilities for 2024 and beyond. I think it’s a good time to pause and reflect on some insights I was able to glean and how I think both conferences converged.

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Jennifer Parker
PMO Focus | The Impacts of the Team Lifecycle by Margo Rabchenuk

Oftentimes, when an organization looks at the lifecycle of a project, they may see it in the stages that relate to the work being accomplished as a traditional project regardless of the methodology used to manage it. The inception of a project would include a kickoff and the team begins work. The project concludes and either enters into a maintenance cadence or a new project is begun for the next phase of the work.

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Margo Rabchenuk
Make Agile Methodology… Agile Again! by Edward Lyons

If you've been in the software industry for more than 20 years, you remember life before Agile methodology, and what a revolution it was. Yet more than two decades in, this methodology is as much a religion as the waterfall/factory model was before. It is fair to say that for many organizations, Agile has become inflexible. How did this happen, and what can we do about it?

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Ed Lyons