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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Building Flat Organizations with Cross-functional Teams and Fewer Managers
Hierarchical organizations can't react to new market opportunities and changes fast enough, this impedes the company’s survival in the long run. An interview with Michael Dubakov on how agile transformations impact the role of managers, how to change the culture to increase agility, how to flatten an organization using cross-functional teams, and benefits from increasing agility.
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DevOps at Seamless: The Why, How, and What
The key thing about DevOps is understanding under which circumstances it should be introduced to your organization. Organizations that adopt DevOps go through a change that affects both processes and culture. This article focuses on why DevOps is needed, what concepts and values should support it, as well as how we implemented it at Seamless, what results we obtained and the challenges we faced.
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When your ‘Agile’ Team Moves at Snail Pace: 5 Key Roadblocks and How to Overcome Them
Software development teams adopt Agile-based processes to address age-old IT project management problems. However, many end up neck deep in trouble when the ‘Agile’ approach backfires. In this article, we look at real life examples to outline common but persistent barriers to the successful implementation of Agile projects, and suggest practical methods for overcoming them.
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Philip Rathle on Neo4j 2.3 Graph Database Features and openCypher Initiative
Neo Technology, the company behind the graph NoSQL database Neo4j, recently released version 2.3 of the database. They also announced openCypher initiative to help with creating a standard graph query language. InfoQ spoke with Philip Rathle, VP of Products at Neo Technology, about the new features in the latest release of Neo4j and openCypher announcement.
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Investing in Impact - Portfolio Management for Agile Deliveries
Ben Williams and Tom Roden are exploring how you can use agile and lean principles in portfolio management to increase business agility. InfoQ interviewed them about getting project managers involved in agile journeys, using product reviews to decide what to develop, working with hypotheses in portfolio management, measuring actual impact of software products and managing product portfolios.
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Java: The Missing Features
In this article, we look at some of the "missing features" of Java, as well as the work, if any to remediate those.
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Peopleware 2015 - An Interview with Bradley Scott of Xero
At the Agile New Zealand conference Bradley Scott gave a talk on Peopleware 2015 in which he explained the management structures, policies and approaches Xero has used to support its agile transition. He discussed how they worked and presented some ideas on the future of management. After the talk he spoke to InfoQ about his ideas.
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Key Lessons Learned from Transition to NoSQL at an Online Gambling Website
In this article, author Dan Macklin discusses the transition to Riak NoSQL and Erlang based architecture coupled with Convergent Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and lessons learned with the transition.