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A Conversation with James Shore on Agile Fluency and Let's Code Javascript

At the recent Agile Australia Conference James Shore gave a keynote talk and a workshop on Agile fluency. He spoke to InfoQ about his work on agile fluency, teaching and building tools for test driven development in javascript.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 12, 2015
Making a Difference: a Case Study of Change in the Public Sector

At Spark the Change 2015, Tracy Jelfs shared a case study of change in Children’s Services at Monmouthshire Council. Spark attracts the UK’s most innovative organisations, and this story impressed leaders from many different industries. It is a showcase of how radical change is possible even in difficult circumstances – from poor performance and low morale to a heavily regulated environment.

Helen Walton
on Jul 30, 2015
The World is One Family - Why That Matters for Software Corporations and Professionals

Rev. C. L. Gulati of Sant Nirankari Mission presented the opening keynote on the conference theme – Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – The World is one family, at the Regional Scrum Gathering South Asia 2015. Kamlesh Ravlani, one of the volunteer event organizers, spoke with him about this philosophy, its implications for global organizations and why the software community should care about it.

Kamlesh Ravlani
on Jul 12, 2015
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2015

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon New York 2015 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.

Abel Avram
on Jul 07, 2015
DevOps

DevOps & Product Teams - Win or Fail?

Peter Neumark found a new world when he moved from a DevOps infrastructure team to a Lean product team.How to experiment frequently while keeping operational performance? Platform teams to the rescue!

Peter Neumark
on Jun 29, 2015
Q and A on The Scrum Culture

Dominik Maximini researched the cultural aspects of organizations that are using Scrum. He published the findings of his research, together with principles for implementing Scrum and suggestions on how to apply these principles and a case study of a Scrum transformation, in the book The Scrum Culture.

Ben Linders
on May 20, 2015
Using Storytelling in Organizational Change

Telling stories can inspire people to make change happen in organizations. By co-writing the company’s future story you can embrace current strengths to explore future opportunities. Storytellers should step into their story to become their story whilst telling it says Hans Donckers. At the Dare Festival Antwerp 2014 he gave a presentation about storytelling and shared leadership.

Ben Linders
on Apr 20, 2015
Coding Culture: How To Build Better Products by Building Stronger Teams

Software developers spend a tremendous amount of time and energy focused on how to build the best possible products. We obsess over what web framework to use or whether to go with a NoSQL or SQL database. While these questions are important, they often neglect to address an equally important aspect of software development: culture.

Sven Peters
on Apr 14, 2015
Inviting over Imposing Agile

We are at a crossroads in the agile-adoption narrative. Early in the story teams were the “bottom-up” vector for agile spread. Next the way agile spread started to shift away from teams to executives and “management”. Recent developments move us towards consultancy for bring agile to larger enterprises that struggle with change. Which way is agile going to go next?

Daniel Mezick
on Apr 11, 2015
Culture & Methods

Enterprise Agility Through Culture

Culture plays an important role in organizational change. Successful agile adoption tends to depend on the ability to change the culture. Making the culture explicit and becoming more conscious of the existing culture is important in agile transformations according to Olaf Lewitz and Michael Sahota. Giving attention to culture can increase the agility of an organization.

Ben Linders
on Apr 06, 2015
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2015

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon London 2015 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,200 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including more then 25 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.

Abel Avram
on Apr 01, 2015
How to Start With Security

Computer security, or the lack thereof, has made many headlines recently. In this article we'll look at how bad things are and what you, as a software developer, can do about it. It will help get you started or hopefully give you some new ideas if you're already doing some security work.

Rémon (Ray) Sinnema
on Mar 14, 2015

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