InfoQ Homepage Business Content on InfoQ
-
Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development
This 90-minute talk reviewed 20th century theories, including Toyota and Deming, and addressed "the matrix problem", alignment, waste cutting, standards and "balance sheet thinking".
-
Leading From A Position Of No Power: A Customer’s Perspective of an Agile Team
Last year Agile coach Alexia Bowers walked a mile in a project customer's shoes, and told us at Agile2006 how it felt. She stressed the need to strive for creativity instead of cutting scope.
-
Conversations between loosely coupled services
In this presentation, Google architect Gregor Hohpe introduces various concepts for to manage more complex interactions between services, including conversations, choreography, and orchestration.
-
JP Rangaswami on open source in the enterprise & the future of information
CIO JP Rangaswami explains how open source became a corporate IT strategy at investment bank DrKW & why CIOs should consider open source for major software development initiatives.
-
Agile Project Management Planning and Budgetting
Agile methods are empirical: plan, do, evaluate, plan again. To keep teams rolling, planning is critical. For 80 minutes David Hussman reviews practices for planning projects, releases, iterations.