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Phil Abernathy on Agile Governance and Suncorp's Agile Transition

Phil Abernathy discusses the Sun Corp Agile journey - taking a 19000 person banking and insurance organization formed by the merger of two companies with over 4000 IT staff Agile from the top down. He talks about handling governance and change management, implementing Agile on mainframe projects and the impact of Agile in the heavily regulated financial industry in Australia.

Shane Hastie
on May 05, 2010
Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect

Too often in our work as architects and designers we focus on the task at hand, seldom reflecting on the past. We should really know better, how else do we improve? This article by Andres Kutt summarizes six learnings from 55 months as an architecture team lead at Skype. Some of them are technical while some focus upon the softer aspects of an architect's work.

Andres Kutt
on Apr 28, 2010
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2010

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, 2015 Software Development, Agile Evolution, AlphaGeeks on .NET, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Pragmatic Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff with Java, Dev and Ops: A single team, Software Craftsmanship, NoSQL and many more!

Abel Avram
on Apr 06, 2010
A Discussion with Allard Buijze on CQRS with the Axon framework

The Axon framework is a Java implementation of the Command and Query Responsibility Segregation. InfoQ talked with its creator, Allard Buijze, to find out more.

Josh Long
on Mar 24, 2010
SOA Strategy and Spline Tactics

In this article, Michael Poulin discusses agility-to-market changes that IT can gain using a strategy oriented onto the services. Using concepts of service-orientation as the major construct of the technical product portfolio, accompanied by a techniques he calls Spline Tactics, he examines how businesses can achieve strategic agility.

Michael Poulin
on Mar 02, 2010
How Did the Originators of the Agile Manifesto Turn from Technology Leaders to Leaders of a Cultural Change?

Based on in-depth interviews with twelve of the seventeen originators of the Agile Manifesto, we describe how technology-driven forces led to the cultural change introduced by the agile approach. This message implies what human aspects and methods, practices and tools should be emphasized in adoption processes of agile software development.

Gil Luria Orit Hazzan Tali Seger
on Feb 18, 2010
Architecture & Design

Are You a Software Architect?

The line between development and architecture is tricky. Some say it's fake, that architecture is an extension of the design process undertaken by developers; others say it's a chasm that can only be crossed by lofty developers who believe you must abstract your abstractions and not worry about implementation details. There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from one to the other?

Simon Brown
on Feb 09, 2010
Agile – A Way of Life and Pragmatic Use of Authority

Vinay Aggarwal shares many instances in life where authority is needed and lack of authority allows for extremely costly mistakes. He then explicitly suggests where authority could and should be used in Agile environments.

Vinay Aggarwal
on Feb 08, 2010
Agile and SOA, Hand in Glove?

Agile is the hand that works in the glove. SOA is the glove, the scope is enterprise wide. Most principles of SOA and Agile are not in conflict. When they are, they keep each other sane. Agile development without a clear vision of the goals and objectives of the company is futile. SOA without a clear vision how to make it real using agile development principles is a waste of time and money.

Mary Beijleveld
on Feb 02, 2010
The Meme Lifecycle

Julian Everett and Chris Matts describe an IT business case as a meme - one that is competing in the complex ecosystem that constitutes a market sector and show its implications. By taking this view of a business then an organization's short and long term strategies change and we get a completely different view of how and why current development practices exist and persist.

Chris Matts Julian Everett
on Jan 22, 2010
Book Excerpt: Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum

This is a book excerpt from Mike Cohn's new book "Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum". This article describes the primary adjustments individuals must make as they transition from traditional roles to Scrum. The focus is on how these roles change, rather than on a thorough description of each role.

Mike Cohn
on Jan 12, 2010
Agile Teamwork: The Leadership - Self-management Dilemma

Self-managed teams are unstable and are successful when the ‘Leadership – Self-Management’ dilemma is understood and dealt with. Too much central control destroys agility, inhibits creativity and resists change. Too much self-management leads to chaos and anarchy and destroys a team. A successful Agile Team operates as far along self-management as it can, without tipping over into chaos.

Rowan McCann
on Jan 05, 2010

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