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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.

Rafiq Gemmail Craig Smith Ben Linders Rui Miguel Ferreira Charles Humble Susan McIntosh Shane Hastie
on Jan 23, 2018
Culture & Methods

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.

Ben Linders
on Jan 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

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.

Ben Linders
on Jan 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

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.

Ben Linders
on Dec 27, 2017
DevOps

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.

Dylan Raithel
on Dec 14, 2017
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
Culture & Methods

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.

Ben Linders
on Nov 14, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban

The book Practical Kanban provides solutions for typical problems that continually occur within Kanban implementations. It explains how you can create a Kanban system for the entire value creation chain to coordinate the work of teams.

Klaus Leopold Ben Linders
on Nov 11, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide"

The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide answers questions that new and experienced developers often have in advancing their careers. Topics covered vary from learning technical skills, getting a job, and dealing with managers, to doing side projects or starting your own company.

Ben Linders
on Oct 01, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Humans vs Computers"

Author Gojko Adzic has released a book, Humans vs Computers, in which he tells stories about the impact of inflexible automation, edge cases and software bugs on the lives of real people. He explains the common mistakes built into the systems and provides advice on how to prevent these mistakes from being built into our systems in the first place.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book SAFe Distilled

The book SAFe Distilled breaks down the complexity of the framework into easily understood explanations and actionable guidance. It’s a resource for acquiring a deep understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework, and how to implement it successfully.

Ben Linders
on Sep 18, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Working with Coders

The book Working with Coders is a practical guide to managing teams of software developers aimed at a non-technical audience. In the book, Patrick Gleeson explores how the software development process works and what managers can do to support it effectively and build solid working relationships with coders.

Ben Linders
on Sep 04, 2017