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How to Decide in Self-Managed Projects - a Lean Approach to Governance

Whether self-managed or self-governed as a project, the power still needs to be distributed internally. If the project is open to decide how things are done, how do we decide? A solid but flexible set of tools and practices like sociocracy is a great starting point for projects to have clear but lean processes that can grow as we grow.

Ted Rau
on Sep 30, 2021
Culture & Methods

How Medical Companies are Innovating through Agile Practices

The adoption of Agile methods has been steadily growing in medical product companies over the past ten years. Practices vary from cloud-based continuous flow for data-intensive services to sprint-based for physical devices with embedded software. The question is no longer whether, but how Agile can work in medical product development - for our mix of technical, market, and regulatory constraints.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Brian Shoemaker
on Sep 22, 2021
Architecture & Design

Service Mesh Ultimate Guide 2021 - Second Edition: Next Generation Microservices Development

Get up to speed on the adoption of service mesh. Learn how to deploy service mesh solutions in heterogeneous infrastructures and application/service connectivity.

Srini Penchikala
on Sep 09, 2021
Cloud

Adoption of Cloud Native Architecture, Part 3: Service Orchestration and Service Mesh

This part 3 article in Cloud Native Architecture Adoption series, explores service interaction in a microservices based architecture, typical challenges we experience in distributed systems without proper governance, and how patterns like service orchestration and service mesh can help address those challenges.

Srini Penchikala Marcio Esteves
on Sep 01, 2021
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Future Ethics

In the book Future Ethics, Cennydd Bowles explores the role ethics play in the tech industry and in the work of product managers, designers, and engineers. The book provides guidance on how to think and act ethically when designing products.

Ben Linders Cennydd Bowles
on Jan 18, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Digital Transformation at Scale

The book Digital Transformation at Scale by Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken and Tom Loosemore, explores what governmental and other large organizations can do to make a digital transformation happen. It is based on the authors’ experience designing and helping to deliver the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS).

Andrew Greenway Ben Linders
on Dec 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy

The book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez provides a collection of sociocratic tools and principles and stories about applying sociocracy. It can be used as a reference for implementing sociocracy in organizations to establish self-governance.

Jerry Koch-Gonzalez Ted Rau Ben Linders
on Jun 03, 2018
Culture & Methods

Coaching with Curiosity Using Clean Language and Agile

Clean Language questions are bias-free questions. They can be used to discover the underlying rules, expressed values, and coping mechanisms in organizations, and to gain clarity and promote diverse ideas in groups. Simple to learn, but tricky to implement, clean questions require transparency and sharing a bit more of one’s thinking than usual.

Ben Linders
on May 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

Holacracy for Humans

Snapper, a New Zealand based transport ticketing service provider, wanted to be more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In 2016 they introduced Holacracy, which enables people to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of waiting to be told what to do. They use Holacracy across all areas of the business and this way of working applies to everyone.

Sandy Mamoli
on Mar 03, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "A Seat at the Table"

In the book A Seat at the Table Mark Schwartz explains how the traditional role of the CIO conflicts with an agile approach for software development. He explores what IT leadership looks like in an agile environment, advising CIOs to set a vision for IT and take accountability for business outcomes.

Ben Linders
on Nov 29, 2017
Architecture & Design

Virtual Panel: Microservices Interaction and Governance Model - Orchestration v Choreography

The recent trend in application architectures is to transition from monolithic applications to a microservices model. This transition without a good service interaction model will most likely result in chaos and a service landscape that's hard to govern and maintain. InfoQ spoke with domain experts on this topic and compiled their responses in this virtual panel article

Daniel Bryant Chris Richardson Srini Penchikala Alex Silva Josh Long Glenn Engstrand
on Nov 05, 2017 2
Culture & Methods

Culture May Eat Agile for Breakfast

Making culture your priority during the scaling phase of your organization is a sound business decision. You have to invest by hiring for mindset and educating everyone joining the organization in agile principles to prevent turning an existing agile culture into a traditional one.

Stefan Wolpers
on May 05, 2017