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Interview and Book Review: Essential Scrum

Essential Scrum by Kenny Rubin is a book about getting more out of Scrum. It’s an introduction to Scrum and its values, principles and practices, and a source of inspiration on how to apply it.

Ben Linders
on Dec 04, 2012
Book Review: The Scrum Field Guide

Mitch Lacey has written the book The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year in which he presents advice on how to implement many of the Scrum and XP practices. Shane Hastie from InfoQ reviewed the book and asked the author some questions about the approach. The publishers have made a sample chapter available for InfoQ readers.

Shane Hastie
on Nov 26, 2012
Agile in the Defense Industry

The Defense Industry is often viewed as a very “non-Agile” culture. Teams, organized along strict hierarchical boundaries, seldom collaborate freely and are forced to communicate through the handoff of contract-specified artifacts. In this article, Jeff Plummer shares his experience with successfully applying Agile principles and practices to his team working in the Defense Industry.

Jeff Plummer
on Oct 29, 2012
How To Not Destroy your Agile Team with Metrics

The agile community needs to change how it measures success. The ways that we gather metrics and the information we seek out of those metrics is actually getting in the way of what’s most important, making working software. Forcing individual metrics sometimes discourages team collaboration by focusing too intently on others. This can skew the thing we’re measuring, thus defeating the purpose.

Sean McHugh
on Oct 22, 2012
Culture & Methods

An Agile Talent Development and Adaptive Career Framework

As organizations adopt agile practices and techniques they often find that existing talent management approaches need to adapt to new ways of working. This article discusses the critical task of replacing dysfunctional performance management systems, antiquated job families and limiting career paths that undermine the effectiveness of our teams and compromise the health of our culture.

Pat Reed
on Oct 19, 2012
New Book: The Human Side of Agile

Gil Broza has written a book focusing on the people factors that are needed for successful agile adoption and transformation in an organization. He offers advice targeting leaders at all levels.

Shane Hastie
on Oct 08, 2012
Interview and Book Review : The Retrospective Handbook

Patrick Kua has recently published The Retrospective Handbook which provides practical advice on how to make retrospectives much more effective. In this book Patrick draws upon his 8 years of valuable experience with retrospectives in real agile teams.

Anand Vishwanath
on Sep 17, 2012
Death by Agile Fever

Agile Fever is a condition that robs otherwise rational people of their common sense in regard to adoption and application of Agile based processes for developing software. Because the consequences of Agile Fever can be very impacting in terms of cost, schedule, and productivity, all software professionals have an obligation to educate themselves in recognizing the symptoms of the dreaded malady.

Alex Bell
on Sep 07, 2012
Is the Enterprise Ready for DevOps?

As the DevOps movement gains popularity enterprises have started to adopt its concepts and tools to manage large infrastructures and complex delivery processes. InfoQ asked some experienced DevOps adopters about the organizational and technical obstacles still ahead for the movement to step into the enterprise world.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 01, 2012
The Culture Game - a book by Dan Mezick

The book looks at the foundations of culture, what constitutes organisational culture and discusses ways to encourage and lead cultural transformation. Drawing on his experience with Agile practices the author examines the values that underlie culture, shows how the Agile values engender organisational learning, and how important a learning culture is to success in the modern business environment

Shane Hastie
on Jul 26, 2012
Lessons From A DevOps Journey

Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development for over six years and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. He recently shared his experiences in a talk at the Agile Development Practices West conference entitled "Lessons From A DevOps Journey". InfoQ caught up with Matt prior to the conference to find out more about his experiences in DevOps.

Craig Smith
on Jun 27, 2012
My 10 things for making your Agile adoption successful

In response to the large percentage of unsuccessful organizational change efforts consultant Allan Kelly offers his advice and guidelines for successful agile adoption in the form of a top-ten list of things managers and teams can do to increase their likelihood of success.

Allan Kelly
on Jun 25, 2012

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