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Dew Drop – April 3, 2025 (#4396)

Microsoft partners with Anthropic to create official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol.
Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft with the release of Altair BASIC source code by Bill Gates.
.NET Conf Focus on Modernization scheduled for April 22-23.
Web & Cloud Development highlights include Aspire platform, Vonage Video Reference App, and Blazor WebAssembly AOT Compilation.
Updates on Svelte, AzUrlShortener migration, .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date Ticks, and Jetpack Account Protection.
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML articles cover WPF Excel XLSX Viewer, CodeRush for Roslyn, and IValueConverter usage.
Visual Studio Hub launched, File Operations in C#, MassTransit v9 announcement, and AutoMapper and MediatR going commercial.
AI-related topics include GitHub Copilot experiment, Azure DeepSeek-R1 app, and Adobe’s Premiere Pro AI video extender.
Design, Methodology & Testing articles focus on Measuring Continuous Delivery, Isolator++ v5.1 release, and Design Systems.
Mobile, IoT & Game Development update on Flutter 2025 roadmap.

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Zvonimir Durcevic: The Solution-Focused Retrospective for Agile Teams, Turning Problems Into Goals

Zvonimir Durcevic emphasizes the importance of being explicit and intentional about setting and achieving goals as a Scrum Master.
The solution-focused retrospective format, inspired by Ralph Miata and Veronika Jungwirth, helps teams shift from problem-orientation to goal-orientation.
Zvonimir Durcevic encourages reframing persistent problems as goals to change the approach to addressing them.
Zvonimir Durcevic has extensive experience in agile product development, working with teams to increase engagement, customer focus, and value delivery.

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Coaching vs. Mentoring: Guiding Yourself and Others to Greatness

Coaching and mentoring are powerful tools for professional success, offering structured guidance and personal experiences, respectively.
Coaching focuses on achieving specific outcomes through self-reflection and unlocking potential, while mentoring aids long-term growth and development through personal advice.
Coaching helps individuals find their own solutions and take ownership, while mentoring provides strategic insights and industry knowledge.
In a scenario of a failed project, coaching guides leaders to their own solutions through self-reflection, while mentoring offers real-world experience and advice.
When feeling stagnant in career growth, coaching helps leaders gain clarity and confidence by guiding them to their own insights, while mentoring provides strategic career advice for long-term growth and visibility.
When leading a demotivated team, coaching helps leaders refine their leadership approach through self-reflection and action, while mentoring teaches leadership through experience and proven strategies for engagement.
Coaching is ideal for short-term, goal-driven development, while mentoring is suited for long-term career and leadership growth.
Choosing between coaching and mentoring depends on the specific needs for structured guidance or personal wisdom in navigating professional challenges.
Seeking out the right coach or mentor aligned with your goals can transform your career and leadership path, offering valuable insights and support.
Consider being a coach or mentor to others in leadership roles, as providing guidance can be a transformative experience for both parties.

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When and Why Do We Need an Agile Product Operating Model?

Product organizations often face challenges as they grow and scale, resulting in inefficiencies and frustration.
The Agile Product Operating Model aims to restructure the organization and push work down to empowered product teams.
The model involves empowering product teams, organizing work in product groups, and managing strategic initiatives with flow principles.
Transforming into a healthy product organization requires aligning on goals, limiting work at higher levels, and applying product thinking.

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Kanban for Harmony: How Visualizing Work Can Lessen Team Anxiety and Stress

Kanban is a visual system to track work in real-time, reducing stress and enhancing collaboration.
Visualizing work with Kanban helps clear the mind by externalizing tasks into a structured format.
Moving tasks on a Kanban board reduces cognitive overload and decision fatigue, promoting focus and clarity.
Completing tasks in Kanban gives a sense of accomplishment, triggering dopamine release for motivation.
Kanban benefits include stress reduction through clarity, prevention of overcommitment, and improved team collaboration.
Kanban allows limiting work in progress, fostering clear priorities, addressing bottlenecks, and encouraging continuous improvement for optimized workflow.
Communication, simplicity, stakeholder engagement, and utilizing flow metrics are essential for successful Kanban implementation.
Kanban promotes a healthier work environment, boosts productivity, and fosters team harmony by providing structure, transparency, and task clarity.
Integrating Kanban via platforms like Kanban Zone can enhance collaboration, reduce workplace stress, and improve overall productivity.

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Dew Drop – April 2, 2025 (#4395)

The Dew Drop for April 2, 2025, #4395 highlighted various notable articles and links from the tech industry.
It covered topics including advancements in AI on Windows, contributions to the Uno Platform, new Azure AI Foundry innovations, and Docker Desktop 4.40 updates.
Web and cloud development articles discussed .NET on Heroku, Docker image layers, Blazor authentication, AWS vs. Azure, htmx usage for building dynamic apps, and more.
Articles related to WinUI, .NET MAUI, and XAML featured WinUI3Localizer for localizing apps, a guide on adding a WinForms rich text editor, and linear support vector regression using C#.
AI-focused topics covered Rook AI introduction, GitHub Copilot insights, OpenAI's GPT-4o improvements, and the integration of AI in healthcare with Model Context Protocol.
Design, methodology, and testing articles discussed MSIX flat bundle application packages, SNI updates for Azure DevOps, microservices with Spring Boot, and battling code duplication.
Additionally, there were links to various screencasts, podcasts, events, database updates, PowerShell commands, and miscellaneous tech news.

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Scrum Framework But No Team

The first step in integrating the Scrum framework into a solo company is to establish a product vision and goal.
The product vision defines why the product is built and who it is for, while the product goal describes the future state of the product.
The product vision is shaped by business and market inputs, including business visions, strategies, market research, and user needs.
The product goal focuses on key areas derived from the product vision, such as creating an AI-powered fitness app for seamless user experience.

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Telling the Story Through your Sprint Backlog — Making Agile Transparent Again

Work item titles are more than simple labels, they carry weight.
Titles should convey purpose, scope, and context for a clear direction.
Titles should be structured like story chapters to provide intent and focus in planning.
When titles tell the story, the team owns the narrative and progress becomes visible.

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Scrum-Master-Toolbox

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Zvonimir Durcevic: From Command to Collaboration, An Agile Leadership Team’s Transformation Story

Zvonimir Durcevic supported a leadership team transitioning to a collaborative approach.
He used EDGE Theory of Change and ORSC training to guide the team.
Creating a conflict protocol was an important part of the transformation.
Zvone emphasized the need for teams to create a 'third identity' through transformation.

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AI Team Scaling Models in Organizations

The article explores real-world examples of different scaling models for AI teams in organizations across various industries and sizes.
JPMorgan Chase has a Centralized Machine Learning Center of Excellence (CoE) to collaborate with business units and deploy AI solutions across the enterprise.
Walmart established a Centralized AI CoE with strong executive support to drive AI adoption and alignment with strategic objectives.
Siemens employs a Central AI Lab/CoE to drive industrial AI transformation by working with various business units and providing training programs.
Booking.com uses Embedded Data Science Teams to focus on specific product areas and collaborate closely with product teams.
Smaller tech firms and startups often utilize a Decentralized model by embedding data scientists into different teams to accelerate AI feature development.
Airbnb transitioned to a Hybrid model with a mix of centralized and embedded data science teams aligned with product and functional areas.
Meta (Facebook) follows a Federated (Hybrid) Model, where individual product teams own their data/AI projects while central teams provide common infrastructure and tools.
Uber developed an AI-as-a-Platform approach with a centralized ML platform team offering ML-as-a-service to enable all product teams to deploy ML models at scale.
Spotify employs a hybrid ML Platform Guild model where a central ML platform team provides services, and product squads use these services to integrate AI features quickly.

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Connecting Tests to Your CI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Connecting test automation solutions to your CI enhances quality processes and doubles software quality efforts during CI/CD.
Continuous Integration facilitates easier bug identification and removal, improving testing efficiency and deliverability.
Automated tests offer faster feedback loops, risk reduction, and time-saving in the software development lifecycle.
Effective communication and synchronization between teams are essential for successful test automation integration.
Visibility in testing helps detect issues promptly, improves test code quality, and fosters better overall team communication.
Connecting to CI leads to faster feedback, boosting team confidence and resulting in higher software quality.
Issues arise when test automation does not provide incremental value, leading to negative consequences and team mismanagement.
False negatives, test failures, and non-trunk-based development can hinder the benefits of CI test automation.
Poorly designed tests, false alerts, and timing issues can escalate frustration and reduce testing efficiency.
Integrating scripts aimlessly onto CI/CD can lead to challenges and hinder the effectiveness of test automation.
Building trust, flexibility, and visibility is crucial for scaling test automation and ensuring a quality-driven product for customers.

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Release Date Slipping? Small Batches for the Win!

A Product Director at a telecom company faced challenges with release dates slipping and scope expanding for a new product launch.
The Product Director sought help as teams could not deliver 'Done' increments independently and stakeholders kept requesting updates without clear progress metrics.
The focus shifted to building a development organization capable of releasing product increments frequently rather than achieving a one-time launch.
The importance of batch size in product development was emphasized to address coordination issues and lack of end-to-end integration of requirements.
A strategy involving small, focused batches of requirements, PR/FAQ document, and a high-level requirements list was implemented to align teams and enhance collaboration.
By concentrating on a small set of priorities, teams improved requirement understanding, managed dependencies better, and accelerated feature development within a month.
Initiatives like 'requirements refinement' and 'Scrum of Scrums' meetings were introduced to enhance collaboration and strengthen alignment with the product vision.
This approach led to tangible progress, improved stakeholder satisfaction, and demonstrated the benefits of focusing on small batch sizes for efficient product development.
The success of this strategy highlights the importance of reevaluating and refining development processes to achieve faster, more effective product releases.
By implementing targeted changes and emphasizing small batch sizes, organizations can streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and achieve significant improvements in product development.

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Dew Drop – April 1, 2025 (#4394)

Babylon.js 8.0 introduces audio, Gaussian Splat, and physics updates.
Microsoft's Verge Staff lists the 50 best things ever made by Microsoft.
A new WinUI app creation tutorial for Windows developers is available on Microsoft Learn.
Expansion of Copilot+ PC experiences to AMD, Intel, and Snapdragon devices is underway.
Scott Hanselman's upcoming episode focuses on learning YAP.
Fresh GitHub guide helps beginners navigate LLMs effectively.
PowerToys Command Palette utility now accessible in v0.90 on Microsoft Learn.
Various topics covered in web development include Angular testing, Node.js security incident, and Real-Time Magic updates.
Updates on WebKit features in Safari 18.4 provided by multiple authors.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation releases the 2025 State of Dapr Report, showcasing adoption trends and AI innovations.
AI-related news includes NVIDIA open-sourcing KAI Scheduler and Amazon unveiling Nova Act AI agent for web browsing control.

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Zvonimir Durcevic: Context Diagramming, Helping Agile Teams See Their Complex Communication Network

Zvonimir Durcevic used context diagramming to help an agile team understand their complex communication network.
The team had good internal dynamics but limited interaction with the rest of the organization.
By mapping their relationships and dependencies, the team realized cutting off relationships with stakeholders was counterproductive.
Using the context diagram, they were able to explain their situation to stakeholders and highlight how organizational factors affected their work.

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Do you need that ticket?

Some teams create unnecessary tickets for tracking time, meetings, and planning.
Documenting everything can lead to a burden and diminish the value of tracking tasks.
A Scrum team experimented with different approaches to find the right balance for documentation.
Transparency in Scrum is about ensuring valuable work gets done, not proving busyness.

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