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CTO Series: How Open Strategy and Agile Practices Drive Success at NorthCode With Ismo Aro

Ismo Aro is the CTO and partner at NorthCode, specializing in software development and workflow modernization.
Adopting agile methodologies can improve workflows by shortening feedback loops and promoting direct communication.
At NorthCode, Open Strategy is a cornerstone of their operations.
The company’s structure includes a parent company and subsidiaries where employees are also co-owners.
The focus is on organic growth through subsidiaries with a benchmark of starting a new subsidiary once a team reaches 20 people.
NorthCode tracks KPIs such as revenue, profit, and utilization rates.
Monthly meetings focus on tactical updates, while strategic sessions aim to inspire employees to contribute ideas for the company’s future.
Ismo emphasizes the importance of adapting corporate-level concepts to suit smaller, more agile organizations.
Embrace modern tools to streamline workflows—but remember, they enhance your work, not replace it.
Ismo Aro shares how his approach to leadership evolved with the rise of agile methodologies, test automation, and cloud transformation.

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The Perils of Presumption: Why Making Assumptions in Development is Bad

Making assumptions in software development can lead to problems with requirements, bugs, wasted effort, communication breakdowns, and increased maintenance costs.
Assumptions can result in misunderstood requirements, leading to features that don't meet user expectations.
Assumptions about data types or system behavior can introduce bugs and errors that are difficult to detect.
Assumptions can cause wasted development effort, leading to unnecessary code and increased complexity.
Assumptions can create communication barriers and conflicting expectations among developers, testers, and stakeholders.
Code based on assumptions is often difficult to maintain and adapt, leading to increased maintenance costs.
To avoid making assumptions, teams should prioritize clear requirements, constant communication, asking questions, prototyping, thorough testing, and documentation.

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Using Multi-Product/Portfolio Level Product/Agility Practices To Support Your Project To Product Operating Model Journey

Most organizations wait too long to adopt portfolio-level agility practices.
Starting at the Portfolio level gives you leverage to impact product-oriented agility.
Leaders realize there's a mismatch between portfolio/organizational operating system and team/group delivery approach.
Leaner Portfolio Management is about transforming IT portfolio to create a product-oriented mega-lab that drives growth, value, and resilience.
The journey to a product-oriented portfolio should cover four stages: Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly.
This journey isn’t about frameworks or processes—it’s about behaviors.
It's about establishing flow, reorganizing around value and outcomes and being evidence-informed.
Flow-oriented intervention at the portfolio level can improve flow and make change reasonable.
Starting at Portfolio level allows managers to learn and model the behaviors expected from their people.
Leaner Portfolio Management helps create a balance between technology and business investments.

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Project To Product Operating Models In A Portfolio Context

Most organizations wait way too long to adopt some portfolio-level agility practices. A lighter touch intervention at the portfolio level can start improving the flow, making change more favourable.
Starting at the Portfolio level, gives you leverage as a leader to make an impact on the systemic constraints to Product thinking, Flow, and Empiricism.
A lot of leaders do realize that there's a mismatch between their portfolio/organizational operating system and the delivery approach used by teams/groups.
Lean Portfolio Management is about transforming your IT portfolio from a feature factory managing scattered investments to creating a product-oriented mega-lab that drives growth, value, and resilience.
The journey to a product-oriented portfolio has four stages: Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly. Each stage helps your organization evolve towards agility, evidence-based decision-making, and continuous alignment.
In the early stages, it is focused on establishing flow. Then, it is about reorganizing around value and outcomes and eventually being evidence-informed.
Leaner Portfolio Management orients around outcomes, where the right people collaborate closely with each other, where people naturally and efficiently integrate and experiment, and where there’s a goldilocks mix of alignment, autonomy, and guardrails
The journey isn’t about frameworks or processes—it’s about behaviors. Eventually, treating your entire business like a product.
Lean Startup principles guide how you adapt and grow, and every aspect of the industry evolves in response to real-world feedback.
Check out the free email course that goes into more depth on how to leverage Flow and Evidence-based Management to scale an Agile Product Operating Model, moving from projects to products at the Portfolio level.

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Clearing the Confusion between Estimates & Commitments in Product Management

Developers/designers often overestimate work effort, while managers underestimate it.
Estimates are predictions of how long a task might take, informed by historical data.
Targets are deadlines on the schedule that reflect business goals.
Commitments are negotiated agreements on what will be delivered and when.

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CTO Series: Navigating Growth, A Playbook for Scaling Engineering Teams With Toni Ala-Piirto

This bonus episode features Toni Ala-Piirto, a seasoned software leader, discussing his journey and lessons learned in scaling engineering teams during rapid growth.
Toni emphasizes the importance of collaboration between tech and business teams to align strategies and goals.
He shares insights on roadmapping, including the balance between short-term execution and long-term vision.
Toni also highlights the challenges of scaling teams while preserving culture and provides tactical tips for knowledge transfer and maintaining a positive team dynamic.

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Can a Scrum Master Change an Organisation?

Scrum Masters can play a pivotal role in driving organizational change.
They empower teams, enhance collaboration, and encourage continuous improvement.
They prioritize the customer and foster a positive work environment.
They also promote adaptability and resilience to navigate changing circumstances.

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Why Proper Process Organization is Crucial in Web Development

Organizing workflow boosts web development business performance by improving productivity, avoiding unnecessary processes, increasing customer satisfaction, and saving resources. Poor process management leads to lags in production and delays in service delivery when there is a lack of clarity, communication, and properly defined deadlines. Process optimization tools can identify issues in the early stages, encouraging quick data-driven decisions. Assurance of compliance with requirements and clear roles and responsibilities creates a stress-free environment and promotes healthy interactions. Kanban is a popular process optimization tool that allows workflow visualization and control, avoids multitasking and work overload, promotes collaboration, and identifies setbacks through transparency.
Process efficiency is no longer a luxury, but rather a necessity for businesses to prosper. Social media marketers and web developers can significantly reduce the time and effort spent on various repetitive tasks through automation.
Process optimization methods like 5 Whys, Pareto Analysis, Standard Work, PDCA, and Kanban boost productivity, efficiency, and overall results. The agile methodology promotes continuous small improvements while resolving various issues on the go.
Workflow optimization reduces employee burnout by promoting a healthy and manageable workload for different departments, leading to a stress-free and productive environment. In recent years, burnout has become global and significantly impacts businesses in different niches.
Kanban is a visual system that uses cards and boards with columns to organize, visualize, and follow the workflow. It also introduces key principles of process organization, including starting with what you know, implement change step by step, support the current process, and promoting leadership at all levels.
Some of the key advantages of using Kanban in web development process organization include workflow visualization, managing the amount of work in progress, transparency, continuous feedback, flexibility, clarity, and increased quality of work.

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Leadership Lessons from Surfing: You're not going to think you way into a wave

Leadership lessons from surfing: You're not going to think your way into a wave.
Embracing complexity and unpredictability is essential for success.
The importance of embodied awareness and action in leadership.
Reacting versus responding and the impact on personal and professional relationships.

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Leadership Lessons from Surfing: You're Not Going to Think Your Way into a Wave

Leadership lessons from surfing emphasize the importance of embodied awareness and action.
Instead of relying solely on intellectual exercises, leaders should embrace complexity and unpredictability.
Reacting rather than responding hinders progress, while experimentation and learning from failure are essential.
The state of 'being' informs our 'doing' and has an impact on ourselves, relationships, and larger systems.

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Forensic Product Backlog Analysis — A New Team Exercise

The Forensic Product Backlog Analysis is a team exercise to identify and fix issues with the Product Backlog.
The exercise consists of five steps: Individual Anti-Pattern Identification, Small Group Analysis, Collective Pattern Recognition, Root Cause Analysis, and Action Planning.
The exercise helps teams uncover backlog problems and develop practical solutions.
It promotes inclusivity, time-boxing, evidence-based solutions, and team ownership of improving backlog quality.

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Dew Drop – January 13, 2025 (#4340)

Git 2.48 brings a range of updates, including improved status and header display, CPU/RAM utilisation information for ‘git-cvsserver’ and more.
Angular's Mark Thompson and Paul Gschwendtner have provided some details on the new signal input migration feature in Angular 13.
David Fowler has provided some guidance on asynchronous programming in .NET.
Angular Basics: Input, Output and View Queries gives a brief into component communication in Angular via the Input, Output, and View queries.
Blazor and OpenAI can be used together for creating and displaying KQL queries, using the Blazor Log Parser and the OpenAI Codex language model.
Oracle will continue to use the JavaScript trademark despite Deno's claims.
Windows MIDI will now feature DP9 Network MIDI 2.0, which was showcased at NAMM Preview 1.
.NET 8/9 has several different build and deployment modes available. Part 1 of a series of articles on testing different modes is available here.
Luis Quintanilla offers a workaround for a problem with Azure CLI docker image azcopy in GitHub Actions.
WebAssembly and Containers are two technologies that are often used together in modern application deployments.

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This One Thing Will Help You Stop Building Excess Product Features

80% of features deployed by cloud software companies in 2019 were rarely or never used, resulting in a cost of $29.5 billion.
Feature bloat is a rampant problem in the software industry, hindering the delivery of features that users actually need.
Despite acknowledging the issue, there has been little improvement in addressing feature bloat over the years.
It is imperative to focus on solving real problems rather than building unnecessary features to prevent wasting effort and resources.

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Will Scrum Masters lose their job in the age of AI?!

AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot do not truly understand their answers; their understanding is an illusion.
AI can assist Scrum Masters in administrative work such as facilitation, creating reports, and metrics analysis.
Scrum Masters are still required for human-side work like coaching, mentoring, empathy, and leading by example.
The emergence of AI in programming may lead to smaller Scrum Teams and a relatively less demand for Scrum Masters.

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Will Scrum Masters Lose Their Jobs in the Age of AI?!

AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot do not understand their answers, so Scrum Masters are not at risk of being replaced by AI.
AI can be helpful in streamlining administrative tasks of Scrum Masters, such as facilitation, report generation, and metrics analysis.
Scrum Masters are still essential for human-side work like coaching, mentoring, empathy, and establishing trust.
However, the emergence of AI may lead to smaller Scrum Teams, resulting in less demand for Scrum Master positions in the market.

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