InfoQ Homepage Change Content on InfoQ

Articles

RSS Feed

Newer Older

Culture & Methods

How Emotional Connections Can Drive Change: Applying Fearless Change Patterns

When trying to bring innovation into an organization, communication is important. It is vital to share information in a clear and logical way, but it is just as important to understand and accept how people are feeling about the innovation. To do this, leaders can make use of strategies that help them create an emotional connection.

Mary Lynn Manns
on Aug 09, 2023
Culture & Methods

Adaptive, Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow: Wardley Maps, DDD, and Team Topologies

Designing for adaptability sounds easier than done. How do you design and build systems that can evolve and thrive in the face of constant change? This article provides a high-level introduction to combining Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Team Topologies to design and build adaptive, socio-technical systems optimized for a fast flow of change.

Susanne Kaiser
on Jul 10, 2023 4
Culture & Methods

Accessing Agile Games as a Tool in Transformation and Change

This article puts the usage of Agile Games into a broader business context and introduces the steps needed to make any game a verifiable contribution to a given business objective. As “business” is a wide area of topics to be addressed, the article focuses on accessing Agile Games as a tool used within transformation and change. It provides an example that was taken from this area.

Anne Hoffmann
on Oct 03, 2022 1
Culture & Methods

Adaptability by Agreement: Valuing Outcomes over Imposed Solutions

In the pursuit of agile at scale, the landscape is dominated by process-driven approaches which are broken. This article explores a solution-driven rollout approach, one that puts authentic agreement on outcomes before solutions. The principles on which it is based are also effective as leadership strategies, where frameworks are resources to draw upon as people find fitting solutions.

Mike Burrows
on May 20, 2022
Culture & Methods

Going Digital in the Middle of a Pandemic

IBM achieved an enterprise-wide digital transformation program despite the challenges posed by 100% remote work and the pandemic. The article explores various transformation levers such as team set-up, process, architecture, engineering practices & tooling, metrics & governance, and culture, and shows how they were applied to achieve sustainable outcomes.

Jayesh Kadam Dr. Ashay Saxena
on Feb 24, 2022
Culture & Methods

Applying Social Leadership to Enhance Collaboration and Nurture Communities

There are many styles and forms of leadership. In this article we explore social leadership, a form of leadership that has helped to challenge views on what leadership truly is and find out what behaviours can help create collaborative cultures and spaces where learning and meaningful engagement matter the most.

Sathpal Singh
on Dec 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

A Design Thinking Roadmap for Process Improvement and Organizational Change

How to understand an organization and the problem they want to improve, find solutions to problems, and provide feasible and high value recommendations that significantly transform how the organization operates for many years? This article shows how design thinking techniques have been used at NASA to drive organizational change and process improvement to create an impact on the organization.

Lymari Castro
on Nov 22, 2021
Culture & Methods

Thriving in the Complexity of Software Development Using Open Sociotechnical Systems Design

The amazing progress made in technology has led to blindly following the technical imperative at the cost of the social and human dimension. Social sciences can help us create a work environment where people feel more at home and proud of what they produce. An organisation designed using open sociotechnical systems theory will be a more humane one where people are more engaged.

Trond Hjorteland
on Nov 11, 2021 2
Culture & Methods

Applying Genetic Engineering to Your Organization Culture

Common barriers to transformation value remain people, mindset, and organizational culture; they are so significant that they can halt any transformation from achieving meaningful delivery capabilities. Behavioral mechanisms can work as a sophisticated DNA blueprint that directs actions. This article explores mechanisms for DNA manipulation to apply the concepts in the organizational environment.

Liat Palace
on Sep 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Inspect & Adapt – Digging into Our Foundations of Agility

Inspecting and adapting are fundamentals in agile practices. Yet, there are wide interpretations of how either is done well. It is a matter of our heart and soul – but the answer lies between our ears. In this article, we invite you to dip your toe into the deep waters of the internal inspect & adapt mechanisms. This article can be summarised in four words: Think. And think again.

Sven Ihnken
on May 31, 2021
Culture & Methods

Keeping Technology Change Human

When we are at the forefront of so much change, it's easy to forget that other people around us find change more challenging. This article is a reminder to look beyond the code and processes, to consider how tech team actions can affect our users in emotional ways. It seeks to establish a few ways of thinking to help bring others along with us when working through technology change.

Matt Overall
on May 20, 2021
Culture & Methods

Practical Applications of Complexity Theory in Software and Digital Products Development

What if we start a new conversation about complexity, also engaging a completely different crowd - the hands-on practitioners, the problem solvers, the tinkerers? What if we approach that conversation in another way? This article is guided by two new radical ideas; the first idea is on the theory and practice of complexity, and the second idea is on the human element in complexity theory.

Luca Minudel
on Apr 01, 2021 1