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Spark the Change Winner - Mission-critical: a case study of GCHQ’s culture of innovation
The UK’s intelligence agency has a proud history of technical innovation, but given its need for secrecy and public accountability, it doesn’t sound like the kind of place to win an award for ‘innovation in management and building a happier workplace’. Yet when Spark judge, Helen Walton, interviewed GCHQ, she discovered a culture of creativity, diversity and surprising openness.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2014
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2014 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 10 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.
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Reflections on the Dare Festival – Melbourne, 2014
Dare Festival Melbourne is a one-day fast paced event about workplace innovation, change and happiness - Anton summarises the talks with help from some visual recordings by Lynne Cazaly with Marcel Van Hove. Talks covered topics focusing on organisational change and leadership needed to create great places to work.
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An interview with Sam Guckenheimer on Microsoft's Journey to Cloud Cadence
At the recent Agile 2014 conference Sam Guckenheimer gave the opening keynote on Microsoft Developer Division's transition to a continuous delivery model. After the talk he sat down with InfoQ to discuss what it takes to achieve operational agility and cloud cadence.
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Frugal Innovation in Australian Healthcare
At the recent Agile Australia conference InfoQ spoke to Liam Brobst and Daniel Prager about taking a frugal innovation approach to healthcare in Australia, the challenges of making change in a heavily regulated environment and how ideas from agile development have been applied in clinical care.
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Agile India 2014 – A Report
The Agile India 2014 conference was held in Bangalore at the end of February with 1236 Attendees from 28 different countries. We had attendees playing 342 different roles from 226 different companies sharing, learning, networking and enabling the community to improve their agility.
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Q&A with Nadja Macht on Innovation, Flow and Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives help teams to learn from their experiences and improve continuously. In this interview Nadja Macht, Flow Manager and Coach at Jimdo, talks about how to balance flow and slack time in teams, doing visual management with Kanban boards and deploying agile retrospectives for continuous improvement.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2014
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon New York 2014 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 5 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 24 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2014
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon London 2014 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 27 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon London web site.
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How to use Workshops to Boost Creativity, Team Commitment and Motivation
Creativity is a powerful motivator for individuals and teams and it can be taught, trained, and enhanced. These are techniques for enhancing creativity to be used your team’s workshops, and they include brainstorming, playing with puns, role plays and opposites games. These activities get people moving and on their toes, making workshops far more effective than traditional meetings.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2013
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2013 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 19 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon San Francisco web site.
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JavaOne 2013 Roundup: Java 8 is Revolutionary, Java is back
JavaOne 2013 was recently held in San Francisco, from September 22 to September 26th. The festivities kicked off Sunday, with a Strategy Keynote by Peter Utzschneider, Nandini Ramani and Cameron Purdy.