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Q&A on The Digital Quality Handbook
The Digital Quality Handbook explores the challenges of testing mobile and web applications and shows how to apply agile practices to deliver quality at speed. Some of the topics covered are test automation, sizing mobile testlabs, addressing test flakiness, crowdsourced testing, performance testing, and applying DevOps practices.
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Q&A on the Book Timing Is Almost Everything
Executives can and should get involved with the way that software is being developed. In his book Timing is Almost Everything, Roland Racko shows how you can increase software success by using a "management by query" executive style in the early stages of software development initiatives to influence how teams think and behave.
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Consensual Software: How to Prioritize User Safety
This article covers how consensual software will help address online harassment and abuse vectors before they get out of hand. It also covers some features the GitHub Community & Safety team has built and how we review features from other teams.
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The Microgaming Idea Factory: Innovation in Practice within a Leading Online Gaming Software Company
It’s easy to get so bogged down in the pressure of daily work that we don’t have time to think creatively or space to implement ideas. We talk about empowering staff, but few are offered any opportunity to innovate outside their direct role. Microgaming built the Microgaming Idea Factory to ensure innovation was company-wide. Winner of The Spark Award 2017, sponsored by hotelbeds.
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Book Q&A on Product Mastery
The best product owners are insatiably curious about their customers; they observe them in action, interview them, and collaborate with them and bring them into the development process, said Geoff Watts. In his new book Product Mastery he explores what he calls “the difference between good and great product ownership”.
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The Divisive Effect of Separate Issue Tracking Tools
Separate issue tracking systems for Development and IT Operations are a source of conflict and ineffectiveness for many organizations. For effective Database Lifecycle Management (DLM), we typically need shared issue tracking systems where DBA teams can see upcoming work from Development and Development teams can see details of live service issues logged from Production.
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Teams and the Way They Work
The terms “self-organised” and “cross functional” are often used to describe a team. What does this mean, and how will you recognise if your team has these features? Great teams work with the uniqueness of each person’s skills, experiences and outlook – forging the motivation to achieve a shared goal, within the constraints in which they operate.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Engagement
In the book Agile Engagement, Santiago Jaramillo and Todd Richardson explore the reasons why employees can be disengaged and provide solutions for measuring and driving engagement in organizations. InfoQ interviewed them about the factors that influence the performance of teams and how to measure agile engagement to create an engaging workplace culture.
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The Triangle of Self Organization
Self-organization is a modern management tool that replaces command & control as a method of creating teams and guiding them to deliver desired outcomes. The Triangle of Self Organization identifies three essential components needed to guide this process – goal, rules & tension - and shows how to choose them consciously to successfully use self-organization as a management tool.
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Q&A on The Great ScrumMaster
In The Great ScrumMaster Zuzana Šochová explores the ScrumMaster role and provides solutions for dealing with everyday and difficult situations. She describes the #ScrumMasterWay, a concept which defines three levels of operation of ScrumMasters.
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Inclusive Collaboration and the Silence Experiment
With highly collaborative approaches becoming the norm in the software industry, it is time to re-consider collaboration and provide workplaces and practices that embrace all kinds of thinkers. This article introduces Inclusive Collaboration and describes the Silence Experiment to help teams consider different aspects of collaboration and work more effectively with all types of minds.
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Agile Sailors - A Journey from a Monolithic Approach to Microservices
Over the last couple of years eSailors IT solutions has implemented big technological and organisational changes: from functional silos to cross-functional teams, from a work flow that looked like an assembly line to dynamic loops, from a monolithic platform to microservices, from hierarchical command-and-control to leadership as a team sport. This article provides a summary of their journey.