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High performers in any organisation aren’t easy to manage. With their uncanny ability to produce outstanding work and an appetite to solve tough problems, they demand even greater attention and engagement from their managers.
And these managers are so busy putting out fires, attending meetings, convincing stakeholders and solving for poor performance that they fail to prioritise the one thing that deserves their time and energy — their top performers.
For some time, there has been a new competitor in the field of persistence and serialization. We are talking about Project MicroStream. What is it exactly? MicroStream claims to be a high-performance and, most importantly, developer-friendly solution for the challenges of serialization and persistence.
The biggest challenge with Agile is culture — industry research has consistently reported this for years. Adaptation of a new way of working often doesn't blend into "business as usual." To succeed with Agile, we need to understand culture and how to navigate it. And the key question is, "Are you using the right culture model?" Or, less provocatively, "How effective is the culture model you are using?" Let's examine some commonly-used models and see how they compare.
Back in 2011 and 2012, I started to experiment with the Schneider culture model to understand and shift the organizational culture. My work and my blog post "How to Make You Culture Work" had a huge impact on the Agile community. (Just see how many other people use this image or have made their own version by copying the words and symbols in my diagram).