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Lessons Learned by Scaling Android Apps - AnDevCon Panel Summary

At the last AnDevCon, Doug Bateman moderated a panel focused on what it takes to build Android apps that scale up to millions of global users. This included team management, testing and design for testability, feature and release management, support, open source contributions, alternative architectures, and more.

Sergio De Simone
on Jan 02, 2015
We Need No Less than Pervasive Leadership

Jean Richardson shows that Pervasive Leadership is not a stepwise transformation model. It is a way of leading to enhance agility, to strengthen the self, others, and the organization no matter what agile framework you have selected. It is a way of freeing yourself and others to become the heroes of your own lives thereby restoring our society as a whole to true freedom and accountability.

Jean Richardson
on Jan 01, 2015
Innovation Machine

How do you start making products and solutions customers care about? How do you create new, disruptive, and viable businesses, for new markets, in a new way? Jonathan Irwin explores how you can develop and launch new businesses, using a platform with teams that will work in a new way, and are led, staffed, and measured differently.

Jonathan Irwin
on Dec 29, 2014
The Ubiquitous Need for Kanbanfor1

It is four years since Sandy Mamoli started experimenting with Kanbanfor1 and two years since she first presented the concepts and Snapper’s story of adopting personal Kanban at Agile 2012. In this article she shares the top 5 Kanbanfor1 related insights she has gained from using, coaching and presenting Kanbanfor1 during the last four years.

Sandy Mamoli
on Dec 28, 2014
Cynefin 101 – Portfolio Management

One of the core ideas of Cynefin is the use of safe-to-fail experiments to determine how you want to evolve the system. As Seneca the Younger said “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable”. This paper looks are the Cynefin practices related these experiments and the rigorous review of them.

Greg Brougham
on Dec 26, 2014
Lean Project Management Using “Oobeya"

This article introduces the Oobeya methodology, a lean approach to project management that can complement agile by keeping project teams tightly focused on customer satisfaction, time to market and cost. Furthermore the Oobeya method empowers teams to identify wasteful activities and resolve their problems autonomously, freeing time and energy to deliver more value for their clients.

Sandrine Olivencia
on Dec 23, 2014
Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 2

All too often we that the business people we deal with do not know what they want, in this second article in a series Michael presents some ideas on how to talk to them and how to explore their needs. In this article he discusses formulating questions to be able to uncover the real needs and underlying motivations

Michał Bartyzel
on Dec 21, 2014
Spark the Change Runner up - the Markel Marvel: A Case Study of IT Transformation in Insurance

In an industry famously resistant to change, Markel International began an ambitious program to improve its technical capabilities and development culture. Many companies talk about transformation, but few are prepared to tell the story warts-and-all. Spark judge and writer, Helen Walton, interviews the Markel team to discover the obstacles faced as they went from waterfall to agile in 6 months.

Helen Walton
on Dec 17, 2014
Open Kanban: The First Agile and Lean Open Source Method for Continuous Improvement

Open Kanban is an innovative open source method that takes the best ideas from Agile and Lean and creates a minimal method, one that is designed to be adapted to any business or even personal use. Open Kanban recognizes the importance of technical excellence, and for that reason it is designed to be extended to address a particular knowledge area. Kanban Ace is the first extension of Open Kanban.

Joseph Hurtado
on Dec 15, 2014
Spark the Change Winner - Mission-critical: a case study of GCHQ’s culture of innovation

The UK’s intelligence agency has a proud history of technical innovation, but given its need for secrecy and public accountability, it doesn’t sound like the kind of place to win an award for ‘innovation in management and building a happier workplace’. Yet when Spark judge, Helen Walton, interviewed GCHQ, she discovered a culture of creativity, diversity and surprising openness.

Helen Walton
on Dec 14, 2014
Author Q&A: Introduction to Agile Methods by Sondra Ashmore & Kristin Runyan

The book Introduction to Agile Methods by Sondra Ashmore & Kristin Runyan is a straightforward introduction to agile values, principles and practices which includes interviews with various luminaries and respected figures from the agile movement.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 12, 2014
Q&A with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin about More Agile Testing

The book More Agile Testing reflects back on the developments that have happened in agile testing in the last five years. It covers new challenges in testing, test practices, and examples of and experiences with agile testing from teams all around the world. InfoQ did an interview with the authors Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin.

Ben Linders
on Dec 09, 2014

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