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Chris Young and Kate Gray on Winning Hearts and Minds of People
Chris Young and Kate Gray talk about applying methods used in political campaigns and the workplace to achieve goals, influence and engage people, and win their hearts and minds. They discuss how to create a vision that people can easily understand and will want to support, and how to get interaction and relevant feedback that helps deliver value.
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Rachel Reese on The Good and Bad of Microservices (with F#)
Rachel Reese on the challenges and benefits of using microservices at Jet. In particular how F# made it easier to refactor and maintain hundreds of microservices. The hard bit is the infrastructure.
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Geoff Wilson and Amanda Stockwell on Agile Agencies and UX
Geoff Wilson and Amanda Stockwell from 352 Inc talk about the advantages of Agile in a digital agency, approaches to user experience and the redevelopment of planningpoker.com.
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Felienne Hermans on Applying Software Engineering Methods to Spreadsheets
Felienne Hermans explains the how and why of applying software engineering methods (testing, static analysis, refactoring) to spreadsheets.
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Melissa Perri on Experimenting and Preventing Bad Ideas from being Built
Melissa Perri speaks about the importance of stopping bad ideas from becoming products and how an experimentation and learning mindset can ensure the best products that meet customer needs get built. She discusses the importance of knowing who your real users are and using simple tools such as paper prototypes to conduct experiments and get feedback quickly.
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Kent McDonald on Product Ownership, User Experience and Business Analysis
Kent McDonald talks about the need for product ownership, business analysis and user experience in agile projects, how the three areas are connected and his new book - Beyond Requirements: Analysis with an agile mindset
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Sylvia Isler on Migrating to and Operating Microservices
Everybody has been talking about microservices for at least two years now and there are a lot of companies trying to migrate to that promising new architecture. We spoke to Sylvia Isler - VP of architecture at VMTurbo - about the reasons to migrate to microservices and how to turn an existing monolith into a distributed, resilient services landscape.
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Mike Long on Building Software for the Long Term
Mike Long explains how to build software for the long term, software maintenance, how some software survives. Also a thought experiment - how would you build software that lasts for 10,000 years?
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Jabe Bloom on the Evolution of Design Critique
Jabe Bloom explores the latest thinking in Design Critique and how this affects and interacts with Agile/Lean teams. He argues that if Design Thinking is utilised then there will be changing needs of Critique as the design moves forward through the process and offers solutions that he uses to ensure designers and teams increase collaborative ownership and become more effective
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Nico Bevacqua on Writing Modular JavaScript
In this interview, Nicolas Bevacqua talks about how he initially got into programming professionally as a DotNet developer and how he eventually made the transition to focusing primarily on Node.js development. He discusses his passion for writing open source projects for the JavaScript developer community and some of the projects that he is most passionate about.
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Interview with Adam Ernst on functional approaches for iOS applications
Adam Ernst talks about how functional programming and immutable data structures have made Facebook’s iOS app much easier to test and debug. By decoupling the data pipeline from the UI objects, and minimising the wrk on the UI thread, the application has become easier to test and suffers less bugs than when the UI was generated procedurally.
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Zaana Howard on Design Thinking at Lean UX 14
Zaana Howard joins InfoQ to discuss Design Thinking and how it differs from how we traditionally look at design.
