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Quality Sense Podcast: Ashley Hunsberger – Leading Agile Transformation at Blackboard

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This week’s Quality Sense guest has been at her company now for 16 years, but in that time she has had the chance to assume several different roles that allowed her to explore her interests, lead others, and help the company grow. Ashley Hunsberger started as a manual tester and today, she’s the Director of DevOps Engineering, creating their Developer and Agile Advocacy program. She focuses on the ways they can advance the work their teams are doing, as well as the way in which they do it. 

Listen to this fascinating conversation or read below to learn how she managed to evolve her career while staying with Blackboard over the years and ultimately came to leading agile transformation there. She offers eye-opening, real world insights on leadership that anyone can apply in their own organization.

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What’s the Difference Between Agile and Waterfall, Really?

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Sure, waterfall and agile may appear similar; both do end with software products, after all. But how they get there is vastly different.

Everything changes over time. From music to clothes to cars, the list is endless.

Software development has followed the same evolution. For most of its history, software development was dominated by the Waterfall methodology. There just wasn’t a better alternative.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

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If you’re thinking about an Agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work.

See Your Current Organization

Many organizations use functions to organize people. The "Typical Product Development Organization" shows the kind of organization I see most often. That’s why I called it "typical."

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Solving Impediments as a Team

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Solving Impediments as a Team

The main message of the retrospective was clear: there are too many interruptions by stakeholders and the senior management. The interruptions impeded the flow of work through the team. Consequently, achieving the sprint goal had been at risk several times in the past. Moreover, the team missed the sprint goal twice recently. Solving impediments as a team has become a necessity.

Learn more on how to tackle impediments as a team by running experiments and iterating on the solution.

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Agile Maturity and Agility Assessment [Webinar]

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Is Agile maturity a fad or a trend? How can an organization make an informed decision on what level of agility might become achievable before starting a transition? 

Our second webinar addressed the question of Agile maturity and detailed the survey results what indicates an Agile organization. Moreover, we introduced the ‘Agility Assessment Framework," an open source project which aims to provide Agile practitioners with the tools needed to answer these questions:

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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations [Review]

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Nicole Forsgren’s, Jez Humble’s, and Gene Kim’s latest book, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, describes the factors that drive high-performing tech organizations, derived from the data that has been aggregated with the State of DevOps Report since 2014.

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations

Accelerateis a must-read book for anyone involved in building Agile organizations and teams. It lays out a path to success based on a statistical analysis of data. It also puts an end to the popular narrative that "becoming Agile" is somehow a fuzzy process. The data shows that there are patterns at all levels that successful Agile organizations share.

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