Agile in the Ether #8 / 22nd February

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1. 8 min workshop (virtual camfire) Story crowdsourcing

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_sprint – Richard M

   How to encourage and facilitate peer coaching in a distributed team

   • Mob Programming https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/experience-reports/mob-programming-agile2014/
 – Emily
   • Skills liquidity matrix https://theitriskmanager.com/2013/11/24/introducing-staff-liquidity-1-of-n/ – Emily
   • https://management30.com/practice/competency-matrix/ – Diogo
   • https://www.donut.com/pairing/ – Ian A

   Team stuff: good practices, ideas for recruitment — inclusiveness in interviews

   • Gender decoder for job ads http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ – Emily
   • The team at bytemark wrote some good articles about their experience with trying to improve diversity in their hiring: https://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2015/05/20/bytemark-is-hiring-by-anonymous-interview – Ian DW

   Communities of practice & understanding responsibilities

   • Community maturity model https://tacitlondon.com/community-of-practice-maturity-model/ – Emily

   How do you maintain your engineering culture as you scale

   • An old blog post on scaling http://minimumviablebook.com/2015/05/10-reasons-your-people-are-just-like-so-over-your-scaling/
 – Emily
   • Zappos culture book https://www.zapposinsights.com/culture-book – Emily
   • Zappos book delivering happiness https://www.amazon.co.uk/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/145550890X
 – Emily
   • Pioneers settlers and town planners https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-town-planners-and.html – Emily

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2. Here are some thoughts I jotted down on some of changes we have made to recruitment. Not the whole story but could help spawn some further ideas http://norry.co.uk/blog/pairing-with-your-recruitment-manager/

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