InfoQ Homepage Communication Content on InfoQ
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Listen with Your Eyes – Non-Verbal Communication for Agile Teams
Helen Lisowski introduces the body language field, explaining how to recognize some common behaviors and how to start using it every day.
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Body Language Training: How We Changed the Rules to Make It Really Work!
Paul Martin uncovers the hidden barriers to body-language skill development and shares a technique that improves the positive communication abilities of people.
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The Oil of Personal Relationships: Why Forgiveness Can Be Useful
Marina Cantacuzino presents lessons on reconciliation and forgiveness learned from real life cases, teaching how to overcome division, resolve tension and learn to embrace difference.
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How a Simple Hackathon Helped Shape a New Mindset
Rhiannon Gaskell, Brett Wakeman, Rikki-Lee Vrankovich discuss how a hackathon sparked the change at Carsales AUS, followed by a number of initiatives that brought organizational agility.
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Programming with GUTs
Kevlin Henney advises on writing Good Unit Tests (GUTs) by treating testing as a form of communication with multiple levels and forms of feedback.
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How to Recognize the Zombie Persona Apocalypse
Michael Rawling explains how user personas can help having productive conversations with stakeholders and how to integrate them into an Agile process.
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Not Just Code Monkeys
Martin Fowler keynotes on the importance of building a healthy social environment where software development can thrive. Part 1 of this presentation: www.infoq.com/presentations/workflow-refactoring
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GitHub Communications Culture and Tools
Matthew McCullough examines the last four years of communication culture at GitHub, starting their internal mobile and web apps, use of pull requests, and emoji.
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Careful with Those People Skills: You'll Poke Somebody's Eye Out!
Angela Harms keynotes on the importance of improving relationship and communication through empathetic listening, authentic connection and compassion rather than applying practices blindly.
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Interpreting the Unwritten Rules - or Are They Guidelines?
Shane Hastie presents examples of how the most innocent of question or suggestion can send teams into a spin, and suggests a number of techniques to help create an environment for real communication.
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Principles of Reliable Communication & Shared State
Andy Piper describes some fundamentals of communicating reliably in an unreliable world and communication techniques used to build distributed data structures that can tolerate failures.
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Live Coding as Communication
Sam Aaron explores the idea of using programming languages, especially functional ones, to share ideas with other people, to have conversations, to support artistic practices, etc.