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  • Cynefin 101 – An Introduction

    This paper is to introduces the Cynefin model and its practices which can be used to address the uncertainty of the modern world. The practices that are introduced can be used to compliment traditional approaches to project, programme and portfolio management. This provides a more comprehensive approach that reflects the needs of management in an ever more uncertain world.

    Greg Brougham
    on Jul 09, 2014

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2014

    This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon New York 2014 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 5 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 24 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.

    Abel Avram
    on Jul 08, 2014
  • Java

    Where Has the Java PermGen Gone?

    Prior to JDK8 class metadata and constants would live in an area called the “permanent generation”, contiguous with the Java heap. One problem was that If the class metadata size is beyond the allocated bounds your app would run out of memory. With the advent of JDK8 we no longer have PermGen. The space where it was held has now moved to native memory to an area known as the “Metaspace”.

    Monica Beckwith
    on Jul 07, 2014

  • Building Better Search Engines by Measuring Search Quality

    Search engines are developed using standard sets of realistic test cases that let developers measure the relative effectiveness of alternative approaches. This article talks about NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) project used to create the infrastructure to measure the quality of search results.

    Paul Over Ellen M. Voorhees Ian Soboroff
    on Jul 06, 2014

  • Burn-Down or Burn-Out? How to Beat the Red-Sprint Agile Anti-Pattern

    There are ways to obtain sustainable pace beyond scrum that can help stem the increasing number of failing scrum projects. Because executing sprints as small projects often does not lead to the desired results, it is more effective to apply a backlog-item-oriented workflow and to treat sprints as iterations.

    Sander Hoogendoorn
    on Jul 05, 2014

  • Quantifying the Impact of Agile Software Development Practices

    Rally Software and Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) are researching the impact of agile software development practices using data from Rally’s Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. InfoQ interviewed Larry Maccherone and Jim McCurley about their collaboration, measurements from the study, conclusions from the analysis and plans for further research.

    Ben Linders
    on Jul 03, 2014

  • VRaptor MVC Framework; Powerful Simplicity

    VRaptor's latest version 4 CDI MVC framework is now available. In this article we take a tour of how to use this simple but powerful framework to build web applications

    Rodrigo Turini
    on Jul 02, 2014

  • Virtual Panel: Configuration Management Tools in the Real World

    Configuration management tools are a hot topic on the DevOps community and IT organizations in general. InfoQ reached out to users of each of the major tools (Ansible, CFEngine, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack) to ask them about their experiences. Why did they choose a given tool? How was the tool introduced in the organization? These are some of the questions they answered.

    João Miranda
    on Jul 01, 2014

  • How to Ideate? Be a Hunter

    Having a hard time choosing an idea for a business? Have no ideas or worried your ideas are no good? You're in good company. Nearly every first idea is bad. It's not about the ideas but about the process. Keep at it. When you miss, learn from it and take another shot. Study your prey. Be an idea hunter.

    Jeremy Stanton
    on Jun 30, 2014

  • Preparing for Scale: InfoQ Virtual Roundtable with Cloud Practitioners

    How should organizations plan for a cloud environment and optimize it for efficiency at scale? InfoQ reached out to 3 leading cloud practitioners to uncover practical advice on this topic. Each panelist has dealt with the sometimes-messy transition from on-premises to cloud, and coached organizations through their journey.

    Richard Seroter
    on Jun 29, 2014

  • Making an Impact on 7000 Orphanages

    Ahmad presents a set of useful techniques that can be applied in strategic workshop or in an initial product backlog session. He tells the story of how the techniques were used in a strategy workshop held in Cairo for a NGO who seeks to raise the standards for all orphanages across Egypt.

    Ahmad Fahmy
    on Jun 28, 2014

  • Article Series: Configuration Management Tools

    Configuration management is the foundation that makes modern infrastructure possible. Tools that enable configuration management are required in the toolbox of any operations team, and many development teams as well. Although all the tools aim to solve the same basic set of problems, they adhere to different visions and exhibit different characteristics.

    João Miranda
    on Jun 27, 2014
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