InfoQ Homepage InfoQ Content on InfoQ
-
/articles/Attack-50ft-Blockchain-Review/en/smallimage/logo-1522175018904.jpg)
Book Review: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
David Gerard's 2017 book, "Attack of the 50ft Blockchain" is an in-depth look at the cryptocurrency space. The book takes a straightforwardly skeptical angle, and is explicitly intended as a non-technical overview that frames Bitcoin in purely political and economic terms.
-
/articles/book-review-improving-agile-retrospectives/en/smallimage/over-agile-1518494485086.jpg)
Q&A on the Book Improving Agile Retrospectives
The book Improving Agile Retrospectives by Marc Loeffler provides practices and approaches for doing agile retrospectives that support continuous improvement. According to Loeffler, agile retrospectives are workshops which need to be prepared and facilitated well in order to be beneficial to teams.
-
/articles/book-review-startup-way/en/smallimage/cover-eric-ries-1517314177193.jpg)
Q&A on the Book The Startup Way
The book The Startup Way by Eric Ries explores how large organizations can use startup techniques to innovate and accelerate growth. It provides methods for creating a transformation roadmap towards an entrepreneurial way of working: to experiment and collect data, roll out entrepreneurial ways of working throughout the organization, and tackle the supporting systems like legal, finance, and HR.
-
/articles/devops-cloud-trends/en/smallimage/infoq-graph-100x100 (1)-1516709153513.jpg)
DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - January 2018
This article, following on from the Culture and Methods piece we published last week, provides a summary of how we currently see the operations space, which for us is mainly DevOps and cloud.
-
/articles/book-review-age-of-surge/en/smallimage/cover-surge-book-1516896895143.jpg)
Q&A on the Book The Age of Surge
In the book The Age of Surge, Brad Murphy and Carol Mase explore a human-centered approach to scaling agility and transforming companies for digital. The book describes the Digital Wave Model which companies can use to disrupt organizational structures and business functions and re-create them to fit the digital landscape.
-
/articles/trends-culture-methods-jan2018/en/smallimage/infoq-graph-100x100-1516368670685-1529059368977.jpg)
Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report - January 2018
At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics we see as being important to the community at the beginning of 2018. Some new topics have appeared since 2017 and there have been some significant shifts in what matters to individuals, teams and organisations over the last year.
-
/articles/book-review-leadership-agility/en/smallimage/book-cover-leadership-agility-1516406885241.jpg)
Q&A on the Book Leadership Agility
The book Leadership Agility by Ron Meyer and Ronald Meijers provides a collection of leadership styles that leaders can use to expand their repertoire and increase their leadership agility. Readers can learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the styles and find out under which circumstances styles can be effective.
-
/articles/book-review-fit-for-purpose/en/smallimage/cover-1515532435454.jpg)
Q&A on the Book Fit for Purpose
The book Fit for Purpose by David Anderson and Alexei Zheglov explores how companies can understand their customers and develop products that fit with the purpose(s) their customers have. It provides a framework to help you understand customers’ purposes, segment your market according to purpose, and manage the portfolio of products and services to create happy customers.
-
/articles/book-review-corporate-startup/en/smallimage/book-cover-1514313911645.jpg)
Q&A on the Book The Corporate Startup
The book The Corporate Startup by Tendayi Viki, Dan Toma and Esther Gons explores what existing large corporations can do to establish an innovation ecosystem able to continually create new growth avenues. Instead of striving to be a startup, they should find their own way of innovating, use their assets, and learn how to create and use business models that support innovation.
-
/articles/continuous-delivery-eberhard-wolff/en/smallimage/eberhard-bookcover-small-1513262464246.jpg)
Q&A with Eberhard Wolff On the Book “A Practical Guide to Continuous Delivery”
Eberhard Wolff speaks with InfoQ about his work "Continuous Delivery: A Practical Guide", where we detail some of the major concepts behind successful CD adoption and the ripple-effect it can have on developer productivity and quality of service.
-
/articles/book-review-seat-at-the-table/en/smallimage/logo-book-1511787428402.jpg)
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.
-
/articles/book-review-successful-agile-project/en/smallimage/jragm_smallcover-1510576717778.jpg)
Q&A on the Book "Create Your Successful Agile Project"
The book Create Your Successful Agile Project helps people understand agile approaches and select what could work for them.Too often, teams adopt a framework without understanding the context in which that framework is useful. This book shows how you can use your team’s unique product, context, and people to define a suitable agile approach for your project.