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The Soul of a New Release: Eating Our Own Dog Food

As any software developer well knows, large releases are often delayed, or released sans some important features, and newly released software is often riddled with bugs. In this article Plumbr's development lead describes techniques they used to successfully release a major upgrade to the Plumbr Java Performance Monitoring solution, without getting burned by the usual fires.

Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski
on Dec 15, 2015
Culture & Methods

"Outsourcing is Bad": Why Good Vendors Agree

Today all companies are software companies and all software must get coded right and get coded fast. This requires a team with shared culture, shared risk, shared accountability. Some would say this isn’t possible with outsourcing. The author believes it is possible and that it’s the only type of outsourcing that will survive.

Yousef Awad
on Dec 14, 2015
Culture & Methods

Designing Menlo - a Conversation with James Goebel

While visiting Menlo Innovations for a week the author spoke to co-founder and COO James Gobel about the intentional design of the culture and structure of the organization as a joyous workplace. James explains the joy of building products that people use, the goal of "eliminating human suffering as related to technology in the world" and how Menlonians work together towards that goal.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 12, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Lake-as-a-Service: Big Data Processing and Analytics in the Cloud

Data Lake-as-a-Service solutions provide big data processing in the cloud for faster business outcomes in a very cost effective way. InfoQ spoke with Lovan Chetty and Hannah Smalltree from Cazena team about how Data Lake as a Service works.

Srini Penchikala
on Dec 10, 2015
Culture & Methods

Is There a Correlation Between Employee Happiness and Agile?

This article examines the agile culture and explores how it helps create a happy environment. It questions the practices and attitudes evident in some of the Tech Titan organisations, and questions if they actually want to achieve employee satisfaction and sustainable pace. Perhaps the Tech Titans leadership doesn’t want Agile because Agile isn’t good for their questionable labor behavior?

Joe Fecarotta
on Dec 09, 2015
Java

Easily Create Java Agents with Byte Buddy

In this article Rafael Winterhalter, creator of the bytecode manipulation tool Byte Buddy, provides detailed guidance on how to easily create Java agents using Byte Buddy.

Rafael Winterhalter
on Dec 08, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Vasco Duarte on the #NoEstimates Book

In the book NoEstimates: How to Measure Project Progress Without Estimating Vasco Duarte explores how NoEstimates can help to manage projects with a focus on value and predictability, report progress quickly and often, and adapt plans constantly based on existing data.

Ben Linders
on Dec 07, 2015
Culture & Methods

Lynne Cazaly on Making Sense using Visual Communications

Lynne Cazaly spoke at the recent Agile New Zealand conference on the importance of clarity and sense-making in a world where VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) is the norm. She presented ideas on how to convey messages more effectively using visual tools and gave the audience a quickfire class on communicating using simple images.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 05, 2015
Development

Go in Action - Review and Q&A with the Author

Go in Action is a new book from Manning that aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Go, both its syntax and implementation, and its most common idioms. InfoQ has spoken with William Kennedy, author of the book.

Sergio De Simone
on Dec 04, 2015
Culture & Methods

How Project Managers can be a Positive Agent for Agile

An interview with Graham Dick about how agile impacts the role of project managers, if there is a need for project managers in agile, dealing with project managers that oppose to agile, applying agile principles to project management, what self-organized teams expect from project managers, how project managers can be a positive agent for change, and what to do to make collaboration work in agile.

Ben Linders
on Dec 03, 2015
Development

Effective Ruby LiveLessons - An Interview with Sam Phippen

Effective Ruby LiveLessons by Sam Phippen is a series of video lectures explaining best practices used by expert Rubyists targeting all levels of Ruby programmers. The video lessons contain hands-on demonstrations to help the viewer understand how each item is put into action. InfoQ spoke with the author about the lessons learned from the video and Ruby on Rails best practices.

Alex Giamas
on Dec 02, 2015
Culture & Methods

Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises

Agile software development has proven to be a major benefit to various teams, but it can affect businesses differently depending on their size and how they integrate the methodology into their operations. Some of the challenges are particular to large organisations, this article provides advice on how to avoid the pitfalls.

Sanjay Zalavadia
on Dec 01, 2015

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