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The DDD Do-Over

Jimmy Bogard had a rare opportunity to do what many developers want after finishing a tough project -- a do-over. His team worked on two very similar projects, both using DDD. He discusses the lessons learned from the first project and how the team avoided common pitfalls and was more successful on their later project.

Thomas Betts
on Sep 18, 2018
Culture & Methods

Ajey Gore on Small Teams Making a Big Difference and Effective Outsourcing

Ajay Gore will talk at the upcoming Agile Impact conference in Indonesia on his experiences working across multiple cultures, outsourcing for the right reasons and how small teams who have end-to-end responsibility for their products enable scaling and growth.

Hugo Messer
on Sep 17, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Emotional Science

The book Emotional Science by Michael K Sahota and Audree Tara Sahota provides an understanding of emotions, which, as stated by the authors, goes beyond current models in psychology. The book provides exercises that can be used to become aware of emotions and learn how to deal with them, which is a practical way of increasing your Emotional Intelligence.

Michael Sahota Ben Linders Audree Tara Sahota
on Sep 14, 2018
Culture & Methods

Are You the Barrier to Innovation?

You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends.

Robert Zazueta
on Sep 12, 2018
Architecture & Design

How the TOGAF Standard Serves Enterprise Architecture

Any architect working with large enterprise systems has probably looked for guidance on how to manage the complexity and communicate with various stakeholders. This introductory overview of the TOGAF standard explains the structure of the framework, as well as discusses the benefits of using enterprise architecture to manage complex systems.

Will Stevens
on Sep 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agile Transformation at Ericsson

Applying complex systems thinking, growing the agile mindset through storytelling, and visualizing the interplay; these are some of the things that drove the agile transformation at Ericsson. Having a leadership team that fully embraced agility, an independent group of agile coaches, and doing frequent retrospectives in the leadership team ensured that the transformation stayed on track.

Hendrik Esser Ben Linders
on Sep 10, 2018
Culture & Methods

Using Checklists to Organize Software Development Processes

A checklist as a process organization tool has already made a good showing in aviation and healthcare. In this article, Zakhar Yung explains how Agile teams take advantage of checklists at different stages of software development processes including sprint planning, software testing, deployment and debugging, and discover their benefits for your own project.

Zakhar Yung
on Sep 06, 2018
Culture & Methods

Adopting Continuous Delivery at teamplay, Siemens Healthineers

Continuous Delivery is about working in a way that keeps the system in a releasable state throughout its development. This article describes how a large software development organization at Siemens Healthineers started the transformation towards Continuous Delivery. It describes the strategy and tactics used to gradually and safely change the development process in a regulated medical domain.

Vladyslav Ukis Dave Farley
on Sep 04, 2018
Architecture & Design

Refactoring to a Deeper Model

Paul Rayner uses a case study to demonstrate how refactoring your code can lead to a deeper understanding of your domain model. Through common code refactorings, combined with the implementation of patterns, the codebase became more cohesive and easier to reason about, reducing the time to perform some common tasks from weeks or months to just hours.

Paul Rayner
on Sep 03, 2018
Culture & Methods

Four Ways to Take Charge in Your First Agile Project

Dudharejia dives into the details of Agile, as well as the Scrum process. The overarching lesson throughout this post is how newbies can take charge in an Agile project. The post discusses the importance of meetings, identifying strengths and weaknesses, using your team to the fullest extent, and how to avoid micromanaging.

Manish Dudharejia
on Aug 31, 2018
Architecture & Design

DDD With TLC

At the 2017 Explore DDD conference, Julie Lerman, a self-described Serial DDD Advocate, spoke about how to approach Domain-Driven Design with Tender Loving Care. InfoQ sat down with Lerman to ask about how she introduces DDD to new clients, and helps them be successful.

Thomas Betts Julie Lerman
on Aug 28, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Adaptive Space

The book Adaptive Space by Michael Arena explores what enables organizations to positively disrupt themselves and transform into responsive agile organizations. It describes four sets of connections, and five core principles, that support organizations increasing their agility.

Michael Arena Ben Linders
on Aug 27, 2018

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