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Q&A with Patrick Kua About Talking with Tech Leads

When developers become Tech Leads they have to find a balance between leading teams and continuing to do technical work. The book Talking with Tech Leads contains stories from Tech Leads on situations, challenges and approaches for leading teams. It explores the role and activities of technical leaders, and provides suggestions how to deal with responsibilities that come with technical leadership.

Ben Linders
on Mar 07, 2015
Lee Cunningham on Talking to Executives About Agile

At the recent Agile Singapore conference Lee Cunningham provided advice for Agile champions on how to align Agile with the goals and priorities of senior executives, to garner their support by linking the benefits of agile adoption with the ability to address the things that keep senior leaders up at night.

Shane Hastie
on Mar 06, 2015
Perspectives On Agile Software Testing - Book Review

On the occasion of Selenium's 10th Birthday Celebration, a bunch of ThoughtWorkers have compiled an anthology of essays on testing approaches, tools and culture. This anthology of essays is available as an eBook, titled - "Perspectives on Agile Software Testing".

Savita Pahuja
on Mar 03, 2015
Culture & Methods

Revisiting XP: be a thoughtful programmer by exercising more collective ownership

Frequently developers cause and face regular frustration often due to a lack of consideration for those who come after them. This article explores the approach of programming more thoughtfully by revisiting one of the most simple (yet often misunderstood) XP rules: collective ownership

Tiago Romero Garcia
on Mar 01, 2015
James Grenning on Technical Excellence

At then recent Agile Singapore conference James Grenning presented two technically focused talks - one on the importance of technical excellence and the other teaching test driven development. He spoke to InfoQ about the importance of strong technical practices to enable true agility in software development.

Shane Hastie
on Feb 27, 2015
Linda Rising & Richard Sheridan on Creating a Culture of Joy - Part 2

At the recent Agile Singapore conference Richard Sheridan and Linda Rising discussed what it means to have an agile mindset and what it takes to design an organisation from scratch which has a culture of joy in work. The second article looks at the technical and work practices used at Menlo Innovations and why they are effective.

Shane Hastie
on Feb 25, 2015
Visual Portfolio Management: Collaboratively Aligning Your Company

To exploit agile advantages like speed, flexibility, and fast feedback, companies need to work on the right things. The three-horizons model explains how companies need to work to ensure sustainable growth. Visual portfolio management can integrate the different types of work into a coherent system.

Markus Andrezak
on Feb 23, 2015
Config Management Camp Panel: Next Steps in Configuration Management

Patrick Debois, part of the team that organized the first DevOps Days and who coined the term DevOps, ran the Config Management Camp panel "Next Steps in Configuration Management", featuring Luke Kanies, Puppet author and Puppet Labs CEO, John Keiser, development lead at Chef, Thomas Hatch, Salt author and Salt Stack founder, and Mark Phillips, director of business development at Ansible.

Carlos Sanchez
on Feb 22, 2015
Kevlin Henney on Worse is Better and Programming with GUTS

At the recent Agile Singapore conference Kevlin Henney gave two talks focusing on the importance of simplicity in architecture and implementation and on programming with Good Unit Tests (GUTS). He spoke to InfoQ about the thinking behind his talks and how they can be implemented.

Shane Hastie
on Feb 21, 2015
Metadata Driven Design - An Agile Bridge Between Design and Development

Over the years Agile has had a number of high profile successes. However, some have suggested that project efficiency and team creativity are impossible to achieve simultaneously. In this article Aaron Kendall of Barnes & Noble discusses a method they have been using that attempts to address these potential conflicts and combines the design of the overall architecture and implementation.

Aaron Kendall
on Feb 19, 2015
Linda Rising & Richard Sheridan on Creating a Culture of Joy - Part 1

At the recent Agile Singapore conference Richard Sheridan and Linda Rising discussed what it means to have an agile mindset and what it takes to design an organisation from scratch which has a culture of joy in work. They talked about Richard's book Joy, Inc, how Menlo Innovations applies organisational agility in every aspect of the workplace and how they are sharing these ideas with others.

Shane Hastie
on Feb 19, 2015
Increasing Enterprise Agility and Agile Innovation

An interview with Brad Murphy about how traditional management can lead to disengaged employees, why scaling is more than scaling teams, diagnosing the health of organizations and approaches for enterprises that want to adopt agile and become more innovative.

Ben Linders
on Feb 16, 2015

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