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  • The First Few Months of a New Team

    Last January, the OutSystems R&D group introduced a new team, called DevOps. Now that the team has been working together for a few months, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on the journey so far and share it with the community. The article explains how we organized ourselves, shares some data from our first project and presents some of the major lessons we learned along the way.

  • Q&A on the book Leading the Transformation

    In the book Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale executives Gary Gruver and Tommy Mouser share their experiences with applying lean and agile development methodologies in enterprise development teams.

  • The CTO’s New Innovation Playbook

    In a time of rapid business and technological change, CTOs and other technology leaders are increasingly looking to new methods to drive their digital technology agendas. Creating a new innovation playbook for innovation requires an understanding of the widening disjuncture that disconnects corporate R&D spending from innovation - while also harnessing the rise of new “innovation enablers.”

  • Q&A on Save our Scrum

    The book Save our Scrum by Matt Heusser and Markus Gärtner provides advice for teams to implement Scrum. It explores what teams that are having difficulties doing Scrum can do to get out of trouble and find better ways to use Scrum. An interview about the knowledge level of people that are doing Scrum and "saving Scrum", pursuing business value, how Scrum fails, and adopting and tailoring Scrum.

  • The Five Qualities of Application Delivery Done Right

    This article explains the goals of proper application delivery using immutable infrastructure: automated, flexible, scalable, secure and transparent; and how to take gradual steps toward those goals.

  • UED: The Unified Execution Diagram

    Today’s software applications have a lot of concurrent tasks that are distributed over multiple threads, processes, processors and PCs. This article introduces a visual modeling technique to describe and specify the application’s execution architecture. Within Philips Healthcare the Unified Execution Diagram has proven to be very useful for designing and documenting the execution architecture.

  • Author Q&A with Belinda Waldock on Being Agile in Business

    Belinda Waldock is an agile business coach and a professionally qualified Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) coach and mentor. She has drawn on her experience coaching and mentoring organisations in the implementation of agile approaches inside and outside of information technology and written the book “Being Agile in Business”. She spoke to InfoQ about the book

  • Toward Agile Architecture: Insights from 15 Years of ATAM Data

    The authors have concluded after analyzing 15 years of Architecture Trade-Off Analysis Method (ATAM) data across 31 projects that modifiability, performance, availability, interoperability, and deployability are key quality attributes for Agile practitioners.

  • Q&A with Bas Vodde on the LeSS Framework: Principles, Practices and Core Concepts

    Bas Vodde and Craig Larman framed and introduced Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), the scaling model. Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is Scrum applied to many teams working together on one product. InfoQ interviewed Bas Vodde to discuss more about LeSS framework.

  • Q&A with Larry Maccherone on joining AgileCraft, Large Data Sets and Monte Carlo Forecasting

    Larry Maccherone is a researcher who has focused on collecting and presenting real metrics for agile teams and using analytics to help teams get better at forecasting in uncertain environments. He recently joined AgileCraft as their Director of Analytics - he discussed the move, how AgileCraft is designed to gather data from many ALM tools and how analytics can be used effectively.

  • Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals - Part 5

    In the fifth article in the Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals series Michał Bartyzel explores nonviolent communication and important building and maintaining rapport is for effective communication.

  • Q&A and Book Review of Software Development Metrics

    The book Software Development Metrics by Dave Nicolette explores how to use metrics to track and guide software development. It explains how different development approaches and process models, like traditional waterfall-based or iterative agile software development, affect the choice and usage of metrics. It describes metrics that can be used for steering work and for managing improvement.

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