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As companies old and new transition to Agile methodologies, different challenges present themselves. For some, it’s process. For others, it’s buy-in. For most; however, improving communication is a crucial step.
Adam Auerbach, the VP of quality engineering at EPAM Systems, has led a number of company transformations throughout his career. When transitioning to Agile, Auerbach recommends starting with a value stream analysis.
“At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.”
This is one of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto. While following all the principles is essential to being agile, one might argue that without tuning and adjusting team behavior on a regular basis, productivity gains will be hard to achieve.
Unfortunately, many read the above principle and only associate it with performing team retrospectives at the end of a sprint, or periodically in kanban. But if you seek to build a high-performing team, there are many more improvement activities you should consider adopting.
For the past few years, my dad has been encouraging me to turn on two-factor authentication (2FA) on any service that offers it. Having grown up in the social media age, I felt his requests were unwarranted.
I know social media inside and out (and I have a master’s degree to prove it). I have always taken care not to share personal information online that I wouldn’t share in person, and I regularly update my security settings across all my accounts on the internet. So, what was the big deal with turning on two-factor authentication?