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Kanban’s service orientation agenda

This second article in the series on the Kanban “nine values, three agendas” model explores the service orientation agenda. Building on the sustainability agenda, this agenda adds the values of customer focus, flow, and leadership. Individually, each of these brings some challenge; collectively, they can represent to a significant sense of direction, a much more outward-looking approach to change.

Mike Burrows
on Jan 29, 2014
The Neuroscience of Agile Leadership

Why does having the overview and influence make us feel rewarded? How do we adapt better to change? And how can we shift mindsets to become more Agile? Find out from breakthrough research in neuroscience why all the "soft, people stuff" around Agile works, how we can help people adapt better to change, and how we can influence real mindset shifts in an organization.

Jenni Jepsen
on Jan 23, 2014
ActiveJPA – Active Record Pattern for JPA

ActiveJPA is a Java implementation of Martin Fowler’s Active Record pattern that wraps around JPA and provides useful abstractions to simplify data access. With ActiveJPA, models themselves act as a DAO and interact with the database without requiring additional code for the DAL. In this article the primary committer discusses ActiveJPA and provides plenty of usage examples.

Ganesh Subramanian
on Jan 22, 2014
Interfacing between Linear Waterfall and Agile Approaches

Michael discusses ways to integrate agile & scrum approaches with linear management styles often required to achieve organizational control in large complex environments. He talks about how to achieve an Agile PMO and how it can be applied in environments which are not naturally perceived as being agile-friendly.

Michael Nir
on Jan 21, 2014
Interview with Ole Jepsen on Leadership in Agile

Good leaders create an environment where self-organizing teams can thrive and create great products and services to delight their customers: that is what Ole Jepsen explains in this interview. At the XP Days Benelux conference he talked about truly leading people and the subtle but important differences between taking and giving control.

Ben Linders
on Jan 20, 2014
Interview with Raffi Krikorian on Twitter's Infrastructure

Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, gives an insight on how Twitter prepares for unexpected traffic peaks and how system architecture is designed to support failure.

Xuefeng Ding
on Jan 19, 2014
Non-functional Requirements in Architectural Decision Making

In this article, authors present an empirical study based on a survey about the software architecture practices for managing non-functional requirements (NFRs) and decision making in software development process. They also discuss about how these requirements are elicited, documented, and validated at different organizations.

David Ameller Claudia Ayala Xavier Franch Jordi Cabot
on Jan 17, 2014
Author Q&A: Patterns of Information Management

Mandy Chessell and Harald Smith have written a book titles Patterns of Information Management in which they present approaches to structuring and managing information assets based on their experiences across a range of customers. They use a Patterns approach to identify ways of addressing information problems which are common to many of the organisations they have worked with.

Shane Hastie
on Jan 16, 2014
Minding the API Hierarchy of Needs with RAML and APIkit

Reza Shafii explains how to satisfy two fundamental needs of API design and implementation, as defined by the API hierarchy of needs, with RAML, API Designer and APIkit.

Reza Shafii
on Jan 15, 2014
Discover and Diagnose Java Concurrency Problems Using Contemplate's ThreadSafe

Writing Java software that correctly and safely makes use of concurrency requires careful thought. Software that incorrectly accounts for concurrency can contain intermittent defects that elude even the most rigorous testing regimes. Static analysis tools can analyze source code or compiled bytecode to discover latent bugs hidden within code, long before it is executed.

Robert Atkey
on Jan 14, 2014
Intelligent Evolution: Making Change Work

Some 80% of all improvement and change programmes fail: they did not achieve the expected results, the investment in the change programme was greater than the value achieved, “improvements” were seen as mostly bureaucratic, or changes were abandoned soon after the implementation. Intelligent Evolution ensures long-term business success rather than short-term satisfaction of a standard or theory.

Peter Leeson
on Jan 13, 2014
Interview and Book Review Change Artistry

The book change artistry is a collection of essays from Esther Derby, Don Gray, Johanna Rothman and Gerald M. Weinberg. The essays cover a variety of topics to support professionals in developing their organizational change skills.

Ben Linders
on Jan 10, 2014

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