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  • Lessons From A DevOps Journey

    Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development for over six years and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. He recently shared his experiences in a talk at the Agile Development Practices West conference entitled "Lessons From A DevOps Journey". InfoQ caught up with Matt prior to the conference to find out more about his experiences in DevOps.

  • My 10 things for making your Agile adoption successful

    In response to the large percentage of unsuccessful organizational change efforts consultant Allan Kelly offers his advice and guidelines for successful agile adoption in the form of a top-ten list of things managers and teams can do to increase their likelihood of success.

  • An Interview with Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks CTO

    Dr Rebecca Parsons is the Chief Technology Officer for Thoughtworks, and a Director of the Agile Alliance. At the Agile Australia conference in Melbourne she discussed the trends in database technology around NoSQL databases, the linking of continuous design with continuous delivery and the impact of the mainstream adoption of agile practices on the Agile Alliance.

  • The Agile Project Manager — Voilà: The Great Reveal

    Certified Scrum Master training tells us we must conduct Reviews (aka Demo's) at the end of every Sprint. Rarely do we get guidance on how to have a great Sprint Review. Bob Galen has experienced the bad "Demos" that were only Powerpoint and helped coach them to the level where stakeholders clamoured to attend.

  • Managing Security Requirements in Agile Projects

    Managing security requirements from early phases of software development is critical. Most security requirements fall under the scope of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs). In this article, author Rohit Sethi discusses how to map NFRs to feature-driven user stories and also how to make security requirements more visible to the stakeholders.

  • Interview with Simon Baker, Author of No Bull

    InfoQ has interviewed Simon Baker, cofounder of Energized Work and the 2009 recipient of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award, author of the "No bull" publication on the past 12 years of Agile.

  • Swarming Across Distance

    "Swarming" is a technique whereby many members of a team work together to deliver a User Story, taking advantage of the skills of many team members working together at the same time. It is recognised as a powerful approach to delivering high quality stories quickly. Johanna addresses how to achieve the same results when your team is geographically distributed?

  • Net-Map - A Toolkit to Understand and Visualise Stakeholder Influence

    Net-Map is a tool developed by Eva Schiffer that allows you through interviews to visualise and analyse how different people and groups influence a particular situation. It is of interest to Agile teams as it can help you understand who your stakeholders are, how they are connected and the level of influence they have. InfoQ recently caught up with Eva and asked her a few questions.

  • The Developer-Tester Divide

    The evolution of the software industry has created two separate roles: The developer and the tester. Traditional software development put these two at odds. Now, agile practices are bringing them together again in order to meet the original business goal: working software.

  • The Leadership Challenge

    In projects that are implementing Scrum, the role of the Scrum Master is very crucial as he is a team facilitator. This article focuses on what is Servant Leadership, origins of servant leadership, how to transfer leadership to teams, the role of the Scrum Master as a Servant Leader and it expounds on the principal characteristics and traits of a Servant Leader.

  • Purpose Case Management

    Article “Purpose Case Management” describes a Case Management method that overarches BPM and Adaptive Case Management. Author reviews several modern movements such as Unstructured BPM, Social BPM, Dynamic BPM, and ACM. The article concludes with a generic method that allows switching between BPM and ACM depending on which one of them is more efficient in an execution context at certain moment.

  • Results from InfoQ 2012 User Survey

    In February, we launched the 2012 InfoQ User survey to gauge community interest in various topics, technologies, and practices. 2,850 people completed the survey, with thousands of respondents providing detailed feedback on their areas of interest. The following report summarizes some of our key findings, things that surprised us, and reactions/analysis from members of the InfoQ editorial team.

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