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What we learnt from rescuing a mammoth technology integrationAgile on the Beach 20252025-07-03
A large subscription migration at Bloom and Wild moves customers off a legacy PHP app Bloomappy onto a single multibrand backend, unlocking mobile apps and…
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Return of the rockstars? Building great teams in challenging timesAgile on the Beach 20242024-07-04
A cautionary case study describes a “Bob” whose stakeholder-loved work is unmaintainable and is later mostly rewritten, and argues against re-creating that…
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So you’ve built it, now support it! Doing the gardeningAgile on the Beach 20232023-07-06
Company moves from a tiny co‑located team to 60 technologists across three brands and eight countries and replaces ad hoc fixes with a Slack-driven internal…
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Squads assemble! keeping engagement high when teams go remote...Agile on the Beach 20232023-07-06
Bloom and Wild moves a 50‑person engineering org split into six squads to a quarterly face‑to‑face ritual called Squads Assemble that targets team building…
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Incrementally Improving PerformanceAgile on the Beach 20212021-09-02
Yearly performance cycles are replaced by monthly themed check-ins: 30‑minute, pre‑filled manager and employee questions that create bite‑sized feedback and…
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The Good Testing, The Bad Testing and The Ugly TestingAgile on the Beach 20192019-07-11
Describes why central regression teams fail: a 200–250 person org with 15 dev teams throws three weeks of work over a wall, then removes the regression team…
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Why I Lost My Job As a Test Manager and What I’ve Learnt As a ResultTestCon Moscow 20172017-04-26
Argues that discipline‑based test management is obsolete and the organisation removes no more test managers and no more development managers in favour of…
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