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Meaning it: What’s the Real Purpose of Corporate Social Responsibility?

A restaurant to give homeless people apprenticeships? A centre to foster social enterprise? A ‘round the nation’ bike ride? Helen Walton, chair of the Spark Award judging panel, talks to PwC about the range of their charitable activities in the UK, and why they’re about business, not image.

Helen Walton
on Apr 02, 2016
Culture & Methods

A Focus on Agile Principles over Agile Rituals

When scaling agile principles through rituals it's important to constantly evaluate and evolve those rituals. This article provides examples of experiments that focus on the original intent when developing team behaviors. It shows how you can be aware of triggers that mean your team is not finding value in a ritual and what you can do to make things more visible.

Abby Bangser
on Apr 01, 2016
DevOps

Designing Delivery Book Review and Interview

Book review and interview with Jeff Sussna, author of "Designing Delivery", on cybernetics, service exchange, customer-centric brands and a new definition of quality in a service-oriented world.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 30, 2016
DevOps

DevOps Enterprise Adoption at Hearst Business Media with Pauly Comtois

Following our series of live interviews on DevOps Enterprise adoption, InfoQ has reached out to other technical leaders in large organizations to ask them about their DevOps initiatives. What challenges have they faced? Which improvements have they seen? What lies ahead? On this occasion we're talking with Pauly Comtois, Vice President of DevOps at Hearst Business Media.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 28, 2016
Culture & Methods

Voys Learns to Play the Holacracy Game

Holacracy removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across teams that have a clear set of roles, responsibilities, and expectations. This new organizational system with no managers or titles is often misunderstood. Learn about holacracy from the Dutch telecom company Voys who implemented this new way of running organizations.

Yanto Hesseling
on Mar 27, 2016
Culture & Methods

The Lean Business Analysis Manifesto Explained

David Morris explains how Lean Business Analysis responds to the ever-increasing pace of change in an age of digital disruption. We no longer have business as usual, so why would we do business analysis as usual? The Lean Business Analysis Manifesto helps put order into the chaos that exists in many of today’s organisations.

David Morris
on Mar 25, 2016
Culture & Methods

Understanding Quality and Reliability

One of the most overlooked but important areas of software development is quality. It often is not considered or even discussed during the early planning stages of all development projects, but it’s almost always the ultimate criteria for when a product is ready to ship or deploy. This article will explore how to measure quality and minimize the factors that negatively impact software reliability.

Doug Putnam C. Taylor Putnam-Majarian
on Mar 23, 2016
Culture & Methods

Living Values: A Company Imbued with Spirit

Helen Walton interviews Places for People, this year’s winner of the Spark Award. By putting people at the heart of how the company operates, Places for People creates a highly innovative culture with an inspirational purpose that delivers outstanding business results.

Helen Walton
on Mar 17, 2016
Culture & Methods

Change from Within: Developers and Managers Working Together

InfoQ interviewed Bryan Dove from Skyscanner about the major technology developments from the last 10 years and the impact these have had on the way that we are creating software products. InfoQ also asked him what managers and developers can do to explore and find better ways of working together and how they can support each other, making themselves and the company more successful.

Ben Linders
on Mar 16, 2016
Culture & Methods

David Chilcott on Growing Agile Leaders

At the Agile New Zealand Conference David Chilcott from Outformations gave a talk on Growing Agile Leaders (The Inconvenient Truths). Afterwards he spoke to InfoQ about the challenges leaders face and why the truth he points out are both inconvenient and uncomfortable in many organizations.

Shane Hastie
on Mar 13, 2016
Culture & Methods

The Way to No-Hotfix Deployment

Hot-fix redeployment is a waste of time and effort at best, and often a source of further regression, Adam discusses some ready-to-use techniques that helped he and his team reduce the frequency of hot-fix deployments to almost zero.

Adam Pahlevi
on Mar 11, 2016
Culture & Methods

Scrum with Trello

Trello, with more than 10M users worldwide, is fast becoming a popular tool for agile teams of all flavours. In this article we look at some of the emerging good practices and patterns people are adopting when using Trello to manage their Scrum process. From basic board setup, to life without child tasks and the most useful plugins you can use to extend Trello to get the most out of it

Robin Warren
on Mar 03, 2016

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