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Agile Organizations

Agile organizations measure and reward software development that returns long-term value and cost-efficiency.

Good signs

  • An infrastructure that doesn't make people shave yaks
  • Software transparency in their infrastructure, like:
  • Lots of whiteboards around
  • Lots of utility rooms
  • The ability to move between open landscape and peaceful offices by need
  • Focus on fun
    • You have a XBox/Fussball/Pool room, and employees are not afraid to use it!
  • Free coffee/soda/fruit
  • Slack time for doing nerdy stuff
  • IT department honors The Programmer's Bill of Rights
  • ...

Bad signs

  • Deep hierarchies
  • Lots of inter-project dependencies
  • Heavy formal workflows and processes
  • Hard to find out who does what
  • Hard to get hold of good hardware (24" screens, multi-core cpu, etc)
  • Firewall blocks social web sites, webmail, etc
  • ...

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