InfoQ Homepage Agile Conferences Content on InfoQ
-
Dealing with Disruption
Mark Cohen shares how Fairfax is using Lean and Agile to embrace disruption, and how free online news has undermined a very lucrative print news business, taking their classifieds markets.
-
Disruptive Testing: The Hunt for Black Swans
Anne-Marie Charrett advises developing a testing mindset and a tester skillset that helps testers embrace disruption instead of fighting it.
-
Embracing Disruption: You Are Your Process
Jim Benson discusses what life has been like for him under canned processes and then provides a simple framework to help you create a great process that fits your organization.
-
Case Study: It's Not Your Fault - Why Targets Don't Work
Francis Fish discusses applying systems thinking and the ideas of W Edwards Deming to organizations, and why targets don't work.
-
« We Do Agile ». Why Is It Difficult for Solution Centers to Be Agile?
Ernst Perpignand presents some real world solution center initiatives along with their shortcomings, exposing the underlying patterns and some ideas on how to avoid the pitfalls.
-
Change How You Change
Tony Bruce proposes an approach to change based on techniques such as Finding the bright spots, Shrinking the change, Tweaking the environment, and suggests how to deal with objections.
-
Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar, Again
David Hussman combats the addiction to a specific process, discussing various topics such as product thinking, regression deficit, building teams and connecting programs to portfolios.
-
Experience Report: Growing eXtreme Programming Teams
Rachel Davies reports on how Unruly Media is using XP and how they have adapted to increasing scalability needs.
-
Methodology Patterns: a Different Approach to Create a Methodology for Your Project
Giovanni Asproni suggests that teams should not blindly embrace a methodology but rather create their own suiting their specific needs by using an approach based on patterns and pattern languages.
-
Performance Appraisals - The Bane of Agile Teams
Mike Mallete discusses the why performance appraisals fail and what can be done instead.
-
The Art of the Retrospective
Chris Smith provides practical advice for sprint retrospectives, gathering information and identifying root causes of both problems and successes, and addressing issues from a different perspective.
-
Agile UX: Is Agile from Mars and UX from Venus?
Carl Myhill, Steve Hayes highlight the key elements that a UX Design process and an Agile process have in common, providing practical tips on how to make them work together.