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Build Quality In Book Review and Interview

Book review and interview with Steve Smith and Matthew Skelton, authors of "Build Quality In", a collection of experience reports (including their own) on Continuous Delivery and DevOps initiatives, by authors ranging from in-house technical and process leaders to external consultants implementing technical and organizational improvements.

Manuel Pais
on Sep 30, 2015
Culture & Methods

Innovation at Telefónica with Lean Startup

Creating digital products is different from building traditional telco products: the uncertainty is much higher, the way of creating value for the customer is totally different and lifecycle is much faster says Susana Jurado Apruzzese. Telefónica adapted Lean Startup to their processes, culture and organization to make it work.

Ben Linders
on Sep 28, 2015
DevOps

Infrastructure Code Reviews

As infrastructure becomes code, reviewing (and testing) provides the confidence necessary for refactoring and fixing systems. Reviews also help spread consistent best practices throughout an organization and are applicable where testing might require too much scaffolding.

Chris Burroughs
on Sep 24, 2015
Culture & Methods

Book Review and Author Q&A on Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart

Sanjiv Augustine is the author of Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart, a short and informative book about scaling Agile methods. It covers an essential set of Lean building blocks as a starting foundation for larger Agile scaling frameworks, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD).

Savita Pahuja
on Sep 23, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Scrumban [R]Evolution

In the book “The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban" Ajay Reddy describes what Scrumban is, explores the principles and theories on which it is based, and shows how Scrumban can be deployed in organizations.

Ben Linders
on Sep 21, 2015
Culture & Methods

Four Must-Have Rules for Scaling Enterprise Agile

Agile methodologies long ago proved their efficiency with small co-located teams. But when it comes to moving past team level to organizational scale, Agile practices are up against enterprise development realities like distributed teams, multi-component projects and traditional resource management. No organization is too big, complex or distributed, but they must follow these simple rules

Ivan Kot
on Sep 20, 2015
Culture & Methods

Linda Rising on Continuous Retrospectives

At the recent Agile Australia conference Linda Rising spoke to InfoQ about adopting an experimentation mindset and running continuous retrospectives in a team.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 18, 2015
DevOps

Leadership, Mentoring and Team Chemistry

How does fire fighting compare to DevOps? Michael Biven, team lead at Ticketmaster, shares important lessons on leadership, mentoring and team chemistry from his experience as a fire fighter.

Michael Biven
on Sep 17, 2015
Culture & Methods

Why Agile Didn’t Work

Why Agile didn't work? In this article Ping discusses the pyramid structure of the 12 Agile principles and the managerial and technical support you need to provide for Agile to work. She uses real-life examples to illustrate some common issues encountered in implementing Agile, and offers some solutions on how to detect and fix these issues.

Chen Ping
on Sep 15, 2015
Culture & Methods

Drive: How we Used Daniel Pink’s Work to Create a Happier, More Productive Work Place

The story of using Daniel Pink’s principles of Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose to create a happier and more productive workplace. We actively translated his principles into real strategies, trials and experiments which we carried out across the organisation. Some things worked and somethings didn’t, but overall we significantly increased motivation and saw remarkable rises in productivity.

David Mole
on Sep 10, 2015
Mobile

Meeting Developer Demands with WebRTC and CloudRTC Platforms

The WebRTC API lets developers easily integrate real-time comms into their apps. This article is the second part of a two part series analyzing the market of WebRTC platforms. It compares data from late 2013 / early 2014 to a survey conducted in April and May of this year as part of an ongoing coverage of the cloud real-time communications platform market.

Peter Crocker
on Sep 08, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Impressions

Gerald Weinberg shares his observations of the agile movement "where it came from, where it is now, and where it's going" in the book Agile Impressions. In the book he explores the agile basics and principles, discusses how he has seen them being violated, and offers ideas and examples for applying the agile principles.

Ben Linders
on Sep 07, 2015

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