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  • API Business Models: 20 Models in 20 Minutes

    How do you make money from APIs? In this keynote from the 2013 API Strategy Conference, John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb, reviews the different API business models that have been adopted by the worlds leading technology companies. John distills the variety of models down to four core categories and shows how API implementation aligns with different business strategies.

    Saul Caganoff
    on Nov 06, 2013

  • The Integration of Agile and the Project Management Office

    Agile and the Project Management Office (PMO) are no longer considered diametrically opposed phenomena. With an ever-changing business landscape, organizations are required to adopt more nimble approaches. In many cases, Agile is more suitable within the PMO than people think.

    Peter Schmidt
    on Nov 01, 2013

  • Much Ado About Commitment

    Great projects are generally the end result of commitment from three basic sets of actors: individual team members, teams and projects. With agile teams committing based on the needs of the business and their capabilities, and delivering against the commitment they make.

    Meghan Cagley Thomas Cagley
    on Sep 28, 2013

  • Social BPM

    The growth of mobile devices, advances in technology and the rise of social media are impacting the way customers interact with organisations. This article examines how business process management can drive the way organisations respond to and interact with their customers using social media. Automated BPM can provide the tools for deeper and better customer engagement.

    Pritiman Panda
    on Sep 23, 2013

  • Planning and Controlling Complex Projects

    Planning and budgeting large projects is often based on trying to predict how development will turn out. Stories are estimated by the development team, but the budget for the whole project is independent from those estimates. Especially for complex projects this leads most often to (unwanted) surprises. Insights from beyond budgeting can help to increase flexibility, and focus on business value.

    Jutta Eckstein
    on Sep 02, 2013

  • Book Review and Interview with Brian Wernham about Agile Project Management for Government

    The book agile project management for government gives cases of agile in Ggvernmental organizations. Brian Wernham describes agile leadership behaviors, based upon the agile manifesto, and give guidance for adapting agile in governmental organizations. InfoQ did an interview with Brian about his book on agile leadership and how to apply practices from Scrum and DSDM in governmental projects.

    Ben Linders
    on Jul 18, 2013

  • Book Launch of “Commitment”, and an Interview with Olav Maassen, Chris Matts and Chris Geary

    Commitment is a graphical business novel about managing project risks with “Real Options”, a way of thinking to improve your decision making. InfoQ attended the book launch on May 14 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and spoke with the authors about decision making, risks and technical debt.

    Ben Linders
    on Jul 02, 2013

  • Interview and Book Excerpt: Hiring Geeks that Fit

    Author, consultant, blogger and management guru Johanna Rothman has written a new book titled Hiring Geeks that Fit, in which she addresses the challenges and joys of employing technical people. Published through Leanpub the book is available to InfoQ readers at a discounted rate.

    Shane Hastie
    on Jun 18, 2013

  • Interview with Capers Jones on Measuring for Agile Adoption

    Why would you want to use measurements if you are adopting agile? Because top executives would like to know how projects will turn out before spending money on them, and measuring results helps to improve future predictions. Capers Jones shows how you can measure productivity and quality, and looks at agile practices that have proved to be beneficial for teams.

    Ben Linders
    on May 30, 2013

  • Software Development: How the Traditional Contract Model Increases the Risk of Failure

    Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield argue that the standard contract model for software development is based on outdated and flawed assumptions, and that this is contributing to the high rates of failure in IT projects, regardless of whether the IT projects are resourced internally or outsourced to a third party. The contract model is in need of a total overhaul.

    Gabrielle Benefield Susan Atkinson
    on May 28, 2013

  • Managing the Unmanageable: Author Q&A

    Mickey Mantle and Ron Lichty have written a book about managing and employing programmers. The book examines the characteristics of programmers and programming teams and discusses how to manage them. They provide a variety of tools along with many rules of thumb they’ve collected through the years.

    Shane Hastie
    on May 13, 2013

  • Interview with Jason Little about Agile Transformation

    Agile transformation is about focusing on organization change and understanding the complexities that come with it. An interview with Organizational change coach Jason Little about approaches for organizational change, culture, feedback and learning, and using the lean startup approach.

    Ben Linders
    on Apr 29, 2013
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