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SHARE TWITTER LINKEDIN FACEBOOK GOOGLE+ EMAIL Esther Kezia Thorpe IN-DEPTH 27 Nov, 2017 Bridging the gap between traditional and microservice application delivery will be a new challenge for evolving businesses To meet the growing challenges of a competitive world economy, enterprises are undergoing a digital transformation. To be competitive, organisations need to be more agile, and need to be able to scale their applications to meet customer demands. The new pillars in an enterprise digital transformation strategy now include leverage of cloud and new application architectures to drive profitability, while reducing security vulnerabilities and overall technical debt. Developing agile practices for microservice applications will be key to embracing digital transformation. Learn more in this free whitepaper. Download now Applications play a critical role in this endeavour. As cloud adoption rises, it presents increasing challenges of com...

Like   |  Posted by  Johanna Rothman   , reviewed by  Ben Linders   on Dec 02, 2017. Estimated reading time: 15 minutes  |   Discuss Share |  Read later Reading List Key Takeaways Anyone in a leadership role serves the team, regardless of their role. Agile projects need project management, not necessarily project managers. Leaders help the team learn; not by telling them, but by coaching and encouraging the team to explore. Leaders protect the team from outside influences that threaten the team’s ability to learn and deliver. Treat people like adults, with respect. They will deliver without micromanagement. Team A was new to the organization. They had each worked--with various levels of success -- in agile teams before, but they were new here. Their management assigned them several leaders:  a Scrum Master to facilitate their process, a project manager to report status to the management, a technical ...