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  • Culture & Methods

    Peer Feedback Loops: How We May Benefit and What is Needed to Realize Their Potential

    This second article in a series on peer feedback loops explores the benefits and what is needed to realize peer feedback, an effective means to encourage a culture of continuous improvement. It focuses on the general benefits, specific techniques and provides three more methods to experiment with peer feedback.

    Siegfried Kaltenecker
    on Nov 14, 2015
  • Culture & Methods

    Q&A on Agendashift with Mike Burrows

    Agendashift is a values-based Kanban approach to organizational transformation, covering delivery, change and leadership. An interview with Mike Burrows on how Kanban and Agendashift can strengthen each other, making changes stick in organizations, the depth of Kanban survey, the value of Kanban practices, end-to-end process views, leadership, and doing sustainable change with Kanban.

    Ben Linders
    on Nov 09, 2015
  • Culture & Methods

    Q&A on Real World Kanban

    The book Real World Kanban by Mattias Skarin provides four case studies where kanban is used to visualize, provide insight and improve product development. InfoQ interviewed Skarin about the essence of kanban and lean, why flexibility in organizations is needed, doing continuous improvement, how visualization can help to understand problems, and advice on how to get started with kanban.

    Ben Linders
    on Nov 06, 2015
  • Culture & Methods

    Q&A on the book Leading the Transformation

    In the book Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale executives Gary Gruver and Tommy Mouser share their experiences with applying lean and agile development methodologies in enterprise development teams.

    Ben Linders
    on Oct 29, 2015
  • Culture & Methods

    Peer Feedback Loops: Why Metrics and Meetings Are Not Enough

    This is the first in a series of articles that will show how to build peer feedback loops, an effective means to encourage a culture of continuous improvement. Starting with a problem statement and some background on feedback, followed by explaining why metrics and meetings are not enough, the article describes the first three methods on how to design and facilitate peer feedback sessions.

    Siegfried Kaltenecker
    on Oct 07, 2015
  • Culture & Methods

    Q&A with Tom Roden and Ben Williams on Improving Retrospectives

    InfoQ interviewed the authors of fifty quick ideas to improve your retrospectives about why they wrote the book and how ideas are described, when you can do retrospectives, what facilitators can do to establish safety, why facilitators should not be the ones who solve problems, celebrating successes, good practices for getting actions done, and the value that teams get from doing retrospectives.

    Ben Linders
    on Oct 02, 2015
  • Culture & Methods

    Q&A on the Scrumban [R]Evolution

    In the book “The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban" Ajay Reddy describes what Scrumban is, explores the principles and theories on which it is based, and shows how Scrumban can be deployed in organizations.

    Ben Linders
    on Sep 21, 2015
  • Culture & Methods

    Q&A on Kanban Change Leadership

    In the book Kanban Change Leadership Klaus Leopold and Sigi Kaltenecker explore how Kanban can be deployed to get change done in organizations and to build a culture of continuous improvement. An interview on doing change in small steps, solving problems, using WIP limits, priorities and classes of service in Kanban, using the Theory of Constraints with Kanban, and getting results with Kanban.

    Ben Linders
    on Aug 27, 2015

  • Book Review and Author Q&A on Four Spheres of Lean and Agile Transformation

    The Four Spheres of Lean and Agile Transformation book by Thomas P. Wise and Reuben Daniel, is based on how management should create an organizational environment to implement Agile. They talk about the Agile readiness in the organization and how to begin a Lean or Agile implementation journey.

    Savita Pahuja
    on Aug 22, 2015

  • Q&A with Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky and Barry O’Reilly on Lean Enterprise

    The "Lean Enterprise" book authors discuss how traditional management practices fail to balance innovation and product exploitation as they require very different sets of capabilities.

    Manuel Pais
    on Aug 20, 2015

  • Q&A on “The Coaching Booster”

    An interview with Shirly Ronen-Harel and Jens R. Woinowski, authors of "The Coaching Booster", about why they based their book on lean and agile methods, why change needs to become an ingrained habit, how you can establish a rhythm of action, the value that a coachee can get from coaching, combining retrospectives with agile coaching, and what people can do to develop their coaching skills.

    Ben Linders
    on Aug 10, 2015

  • Downscaling SAFe

    The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with custom modifications to it in accordance with Agile and Lean values helped Seamless Payments to go through a period of organizational growth and prepare for further growth. This article describes the change that was done using a slimmed down version of SAFe that still maintained its core ideas.

    Mikael Lundgren Tomek Pająk
    on Jul 29, 2015
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