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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Understanding Bitcode for iOS Applications
When Apple released Xcode 7, they also enabled applications to be distributed to the AppStore through bitcode, instead of per-processor target files. InfoQ looks under the covers at what Bitcode is, what advantages it may offer, and why developers should consider enabling bitcode projects for their iOS targets.
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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.
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Big Memory .NET Part 2 - Pile, Our Big Memory Solution for .NET
In part one, Leonid Ganeline introduced the concept of big memory and discussed why it is so hard to deal with in a .NET environment. In part two, Dmitriy Khmaladze describes their solution NFX Pile; a hybrid memory manager written in C# with 100% managed code.
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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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Big Data Solutions with MS SQL ColumnStore Index
Columnar data storage can offer significant performance improvements over the way database tables are traditionally stored, but they aren’t always faster. Aleksandr Shavlyuga explores the power, and limitations of SQL Server’s ColumnStore Indexes.