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Transforming teamwork: Unlocking AI-driven success in cloud

Atlassian promotes its Teamwork Collection (Jira, Confluence, Loom, Rovo) as the foundation for AI-driven cloud transformation. Based on an executive research report developed with AWS, the piece argues that cloud migration only delivers value when teams consolidate tools and connect planning, knowledge, and communication. Three pillars are outlined: building a connected intelligence layer via the Teamwork Graph, improving async collaboration with Loom (citing 232% ROI from a Forrester study), and embedding AI through Rovo across existing workflows. The core message is that disconnected tools undermine AI adoption, and a unified platform accelerates results.

Cost centers now support enterprise teams

GitHub Enterprise Cloud now allows enterprise teams to be added as resources within cost centers. Usage incurred by team members is automatically attributed to the corresponding cost center, and attribution updates dynamically as team membership changes via manual updates or IdP sync through SCIM. This lets enterprises align their billing structure with their organizational structure, and enables spend capping at the group level by setting budgets on cost centers that contain teams. The feature is available to enterprise owners and billing managers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

The Roadmap

Gary tiếp quản một ứng dụng bị lỗi nghiêm trọng với hơn 500 controller copy-paste, không có CI/CD hay quy trình triển khai, đồng thời gây lãng phí lớn trên cloud. Anh tối ưu hóa, giảm 60% chi phí cloud, tự động hóa triển khai và loại bỏ downtime. Tuy nhiên, khi tham dự cuộc họp quản lý, thay vì khen ngợi, anh bị chỉ trích vì không tuân theo roadmap lỗi thời năm 2020 và bỏ qua các lỗi chưa được theo dõi. Gary quyết định cập nhật CV.

Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để hiểu cách chuyển đổi từ việc cải thiện ứng dụng hiện tại thành một chiến lược bền vững, từ bỏ những thói quen cũ và xây dựng sự nghiệp bằng sự quyết đoán thay vì tuân theo quy định không hiệu quả.

Engineering managers ditch cloud AI for local LLMs

Engineering managers are increasingly turning to local LLMs as a third option between expensive cloud AI licences and legal restrictions on data governance. The trend gained credibility when Georgi Gerganov, creator of llama.cpp, publicly endorsed using a Qwen3-27B model locally for daily coding tasks. Former Meta/Google DeepMind VP Mat Velloso is also switching to open-weight models, citing concerns about reliance on proprietary models that could be withdrawn without notice. Local models are seen as already capable enough for routine tasks like autocomplete, refactoring, documentation, and test generation, especially where latency, privacy, or cost predictability matter more than peak capability.

Why Scrum Isn’t Working Even Though You’re Doing Scrum

Organizations often implement all the Scrum ceremonies and roles yet still fail to see the expected benefits. The core problems are: Scrum events becoming empty rituals rather than value-generating activities, sprint interruptions being treated as costless when they erode team trust and focus, organizational lack of prioritization pushing too many demands onto teams, leaders not creating the right environment for self-managing teams, Scrum Masters staying too close to the team instead of removing organizational impediments, and excessive rules making Scrum feel like bureaucracy. The recommended approach is to apply Scrum's own inspect-and-adapt principle to improve Scrum itself — identifying the biggest root cause and experimenting with one change at a time rather than attempting a big-bang reset.

The Network You Can’t See

Using the collapse of Schwinn Bicycle Company as a case study, this piece argues that leaders operate within two networks: a visible managed network of direct reports and peers, and an invisible second network of weak ties. Drawing on Mark Granovetter's 1973 'Strength of Weak Ties' research and AnnaLee Saxenian's comparison of Silicon Valley vs. Route 128, it explains why strong-tie networks produce informationally redundant feedback loops while weak ties bridge structural holes and deliver novel signal. Schwinn's executives failed not from lack of intelligence but from a closed advisory loop that couldn't surface the mountain bike revolution happening in their own backyard. The post advocates for deliberately cultivating weak ties through peer groups and periodic outreach, offering diagnostic questions to assess whether your second network is alive or atrophying.

The Critical Skill Nobody Teaches You

Managing without authority is a core skill for TPMs and program managers that nobody formally teaches. The key insight is that influence comes from providing context, making tradeoffs explicit, and adopting an owner mindset rather than relying on status updates or escalation. Sharing the 'blast radius' of delays helps engineers self-manage, while explicit priority frameworks (speed vs. quality vs. scope) reduce cross-functional conflict. Trust is built by identifying risks early, bringing data instead of opinions, and protecting engineering time from low-value work.