InfoQ Homepage Distributed Team Content on InfoQ
-
/articles/conversation-patterns-6/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 6
How to convince your client/supervisor/team to your ideas? – this is one of the most common questions that come up during my work with teams. This article presents some effective techniques that will help you propose solutions that you think are better than those suggested by your client. We will also decide if it is really about convincing.
-
/articles/cazaly-sense-visual/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Lynne Cazaly on Making Sense using Visual Communications
Lynne Cazaly spoke at the recent Agile New Zealand conference on the importance of clarity and sense-making in a world where VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) is the norm. She presented ideas on how to convey messages more effectively using visual tools and gave the audience a quickfire class on communicating using simple images.
-
/articles/agile-snails-roadblocks/en/smallimage/logo-agile.jpg)
When your ‘Agile’ Team Moves at Snail Pace: 5 Key Roadblocks and How to Overcome Them
Software development teams adopt Agile-based processes to address age-old IT project management problems. However, many end up neck deep in trouble when the ‘Agile’ approach backfires. In this article, we look at real life examples to outline common but persistent barriers to the successful implementation of Agile projects, and suggest practical methods for overcoming them.
-
/articles/agilenz-peopleware-scott/en/smallimage/logo3.jpg)
Peopleware 2015 - An Interview with Bradley Scott of Xero
At the Agile New Zealand conference Bradley Scott gave a talk on Peopleware 2015 in which he explained the management structures, policies and approaches Xero has used to support its agile transition. He discussed how they worked and presented some ideas on the future of management. After the talk he spoke to InfoQ about his ideas.
-
/articles/thread-protocol-for-home-automation/en/smallimage/logo-iot.jpg)
Thread – An Open Standard Protocol for Home Automation
The Internet of Things is poised for huge growth. Along with SMAC (Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud), it’s one of the key building blocks of digital technologies and superior digital customer experience. As IoT gets more matured there is the need for a standardization of network protocols used in IoT. With Thread, Google invented a protocol to easily connect various devices in your home.
-
/articles/conversation-patterns-5/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals - Part 5
In the fifth article in the Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals series Michał Bartyzel explores nonviolent communication and important building and maintaining rapport is for effective communication.
-
/articles/leadership-mentoring-team-chemistry/en/smallimage/logo-devops1.jpg)
Leadership, Mentoring and Team Chemistry
How does fire fighting compare to DevOps? Michael Biven, team lead at Ticketmaster, shares important lessons on leadership, mentoring and team chemistry from his experience as a fire fighter.
-
/articles/webrtc-cloudrtc-platform-analysis/en/smallimage/logo3.jpg)
Meeting Developer Demands with WebRTC and CloudRTC Platforms
The WebRTC API lets developers easily integrate real-time comms into their apps. This article is the second part of a two part series analyzing the market of WebRTC platforms. It compares data from late 2013 / early 2014 to a survey conducted in April and May of this year as part of an ongoing coverage of the cloud real-time communications platform market.
-
/articles/book-review-agile-impressions/en/smallimage/logo-agile-impressions.png)
Q&A on the Book Agile Impressions
Gerald Weinberg shares his observations of the agile movement "where it came from, where it is now, and where it's going" in the book Agile Impressions. In the book he explores the agile basics and principles, discusses how he has seen them being violated, and offers ideas and examples for applying the agile principles.
-
/articles/conversation-patterns-4/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals - Part 4
In the fourth article in the Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals series Michał Bartyzel focuses on asking the right questions.
-
/articles/workplace-diversity/en/smallimage/neuro-scrabble.jpg)
A Case for Diversity in Our Workspaces
Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg makes a case for supporting neurodiveristy in our workplaces.
-
/articles/more-fearless-change/en/smallimage/cover.png)
Q&A on the Book More Fearless Change
The book More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising provides patterns that can be used to drive change in organizations in a sustainable way. It contains updated descriptions of the 48 patterns from the book Fearless Change and provides 15 new patterns.