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Interview with Grady Booch

Grady Booch discusses the growth of software engineering as a discipline with Mark Collins-Cope, the pair covers topics ranging from UML and Unified Process to Programming Languages and the future of software innovation.

Mark Collins-Cope
on Sep 12, 2014
Boost Potential with Shared Authority and Lean Management

Shared leadership is a modern and exciting way to lead and manage. The goal of sharing authority within a team of leaders is to maximize the use of all capabilities and ideas in the organization. It does not force change upon the organizational structure, but builds on the existing structure and makes the best of it. In this article Walid Farag explores shared leadership and provides a case study.

Walid Farag
on Sep 11, 2014
Q&A with Jurgen Appelo on Management 3.0 Workout

The book Management 3.0 Workout by Jurgen Appelo contains games, practices, stories and tools that can be used to improve management in organizations. Managers can use the book to develop skills for servant leadership and increase employee engagement. Agile teams can adopt management practices described in the book to improve team work and collaboration helping them to become self-organizing.

Ben Linders
on Sep 09, 2014
Michael Stange at Agile Australia on Incrementally Transforming Organisation Structures

At the Agile Australia conference Michael Stange spoke about patterns of organisational resistance and how to incrementally make change to structures that enable agility.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 07, 2014
The Life and Times of TDD

Scott Ambler discusses a recent mini-survey designed to find out how TDD is being used in practice. He examines the state of practice and what techniques and tools are being used with TDD.

Scott Ambler
on Sep 04, 2014
Stories of Collaboration in Remote Teams

Lisette Sutherland and Elinor Slomba are collecting and sharing stories from people whose business models depend upon getting remote teams right. These stories showing how remote teams collaborate, bridge distance, build trust and get things done together will be described in the upcoming book Collaboration Superpowers: The Remote Field Guide.

Ben Linders
on Sep 01, 2014
Nigel Dalton at Agile Australia on System Thinking, Social Experiments and 20 by 2020

At the recent Agile Australia InfoQ spoke to Nigel Dalton about social experiments in modern management, applying Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking to workplaces, disruptive innovation and his goal of "20 by 2020" - having 20% of organisations using agile management approaches by 2020.

Shane Hastie
on Aug 30, 2014
Q&A with Barry Boehm and Richard Turner on The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model

The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model describes a process model generator. InfoQ interviewed the authors about the principles underlying the Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), applying the ICSM, benefits that organization can get from it, and how organizations can use the ICSM to determine under what conditions to use software-intensive agile frameworks like Scrum, DSDM, SAFe, or DAD.

Ben Linders
on Aug 27, 2014
What Is Leading Self-Organising Teams All About?

What exactly do we have to do to capitalise on self-organisation? How can we best support our teams? What special kind of leadership is needed? The third article from a series on Leading Self-Organising Teams covers what it means to lead a self-organising team.

Peter Hundermark Sigi Kaltenecker
on Aug 25, 2014
What UX is and isn't?

User Experience is part of a collaborative, self-contained and balanced team that has all the necessary roles to be wholly responsible for building the right thing, and building the thing right.User experience runs deep, is way more than the UI, and starts in the abstract with the strategy.

Aaron Sanders
on Aug 24, 2014
Renee Troughton on Agile Australia, Pragmatic Scaling and Non-violent Communication

At the recent Agile Australia conference InfoQ interviewed Renee Troughton about the theme of the conference, her experiences with large scale agile adoption and using non-violent communication in coaching.

Shane Hastie
on Aug 23, 2014
Q&A with Sander Hoogendoorn on This is Agile

The book This is Agile: Beyond the basics. Beyond the Hype. Beyond Scrum by Sander Hoogendoorn covers situations that enterprises can encounter when adopting agile, and provides solutions on how to deal with them. It is a translation of the Dutch book Dit is Agile. InfoQ interviewed Sander about managing agile projects, balancing the work in iterations, and different kinds of agile approaches.

Ben Linders
on Aug 19, 2014

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