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Agile in the Defense Industry

The Defense Industry is often viewed as a very “non-Agile” culture. Teams, organized along strict hierarchical boundaries, seldom collaborate freely and are forced to communicate through the handoff of contract-specified artifacts. In this article, Jeff Plummer shares his experience with successfully applying Agile principles and practices to his team working in the Defense Industry.

Jeff Plummer
on Oct 29, 2012
A Detailed Look at The New File API in Java 7

Java 7 introduced a number of useful features to the language, including a new I/O file package which offers finer grained control over file system functionality, particularly for POSIX based systems. This article will first introduce the new API, and then explore it in more detail using an example of a web-based file manager project, called WebFolder.

Dmitriy Rogatkin
on Oct 24, 2012
So What Exactly is a View-Model?

So What Exactly is a View-Model? After being introduced to the term “view-model,” most developers start by using them as a dumping ground for everything. This article explores some of the many roles assumed by the view-model and asks the question, “What really belongs in the view-model?”

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 23, 2012
How To Not Destroy your Agile Team with Metrics

The agile community needs to change how it measures success. The ways that we gather metrics and the information we seek out of those metrics is actually getting in the way of what’s most important, making working software. Forcing individual metrics sometimes discourages team collaboration by focusing too intently on others. This can skew the thing we’re measuring, thus defeating the purpose.

Sean McHugh
on Oct 22, 2012
Culture & Methods

An Agile Talent Development and Adaptive Career Framework

As organizations adopt agile practices and techniques they often find that existing talent management approaches need to adapt to new ways of working. This article discusses the critical task of replacing dysfunctional performance management systems, antiquated job families and limiting career paths that undermine the effectiveness of our teams and compromise the health of our culture.

Pat Reed
on Oct 19, 2012
Continuous Delivery with Continuous Design: Completing the Cycle

Innovations in software delivery and product ideation don’t always impact each other. However, the rapidly increasing appetite for new product features coupled with the decreased lifetime of products, and even business models, necessitates joining up the cycles of continuous design and continuous delivery into a holistic approach to delivery. This article discusses shrinking the innovation cycle

Rebecca Parsons
on Oct 16, 2012
New Book: JQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs

“Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs” is a new book by Phil Dutson that introduces web developers to building mobile web apps with JQuery Mobile. The book is divided into 24 separate chapters meant to be consumed in an hour each. InfoQ got in touch with Phil to know more about the book and Mobile web app development in general.

Roopesh Shenoy
on Oct 15, 2012
A User’s Story: DubDubDeploy

When Donte Ormsby came to us, it was just a friendly letter to say that he found a great tool for simplifying website deployment using ASP.NET and thought our reader might find it useful. After talking a bit, we decided the best way to introduce DubDubDeploy to you would be for him to just tell his story.

Donte Ormsby
on Oct 11, 2012
New Book: The Human Side of Agile

Gil Broza has written a book focusing on the people factors that are needed for successful agile adoption and transformation in an organization. He offers advice targeting leaders at all levels.

Shane Hastie
on Oct 08, 2012
arrayDB, a New and Easy PHP ORM

Most ORM libraries make you write a new class for each item you want to keep in the database. Extending this and that for no apparent reason is repetitious and capricious. Using techniques that can be applied to most languages, arrayDB looks at simplifying the whole process by doing away with statically defined classes.

Mustafa Dokumacı
on Oct 04, 2012
Inside the Complexity of Delivering Cloud Computing

There's a lot more to cloud computing than meets the eye. This article presents an insider's view on what really is entailed in designing and deploying a cloud-based solution.

JP Morgenthal
on Oct 03, 2012
Why Testing Matters in Agile Projects

Agile is changing the way we work together and the work that is done. Many think that the role of testing is dead, but I think it is growing and turning into an even better, rounder, more effective testing. The role of Testing will powerfully help redefine the way things are done and the order in which they are done for best results in agile.

Sharon Robson
on Oct 02, 2012

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