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Agile Coaching - Lessons from the Trenches

High performing teams do not often happen organically; they are a return on investment. In this article, we will use our hard fought experience from the trenches to shed light onto Agile Coaching. First, defining what being an Agile Coach means, what skills and competencies are necessary to be successful. Then, examining patterns and anti-patterns for both in-house coaches and coach-consultants.

Erin Perry Gene Gendel
on Aug 14, 2015
Limitations of Technical Debt Quantification: Do you Rely on these Numbers?

Technical debt quantification tools attempt to quantify the existing technical debt in a software product. However, the present set of quantification tools suffers from various limitations such as limited or no support for quantification of all technical debt dimensions, generalized absolutization, and missing interest component. Hence, quantified cost and effort must be interpreted with caution.

Ganesh Samarthyam Tushar Sharma
on Aug 12, 2015
Q&A on “The Coaching Booster”

An interview with Shirly Ronen-Harel and Jens R. Woinowski, authors of "The Coaching Booster", about why they based their book on lean and agile methods, why change needs to become an ingrained habit, how you can establish a rhythm of action, the value that a coachee can get from coaching, combining retrospectives with agile coaching, and what people can do to develop their coaching skills.

Ben Linders
on Aug 10, 2015
Author Q&A on Strategy, Leadership and the Soul

Jennifer Sertl and Koby Huberman wrote a book taking a different approach to leadership. Their focus is on providing the tools to nurture agility through resilience, responsiveness and reflection. They aim to support the individual's ability to better trust their core intelligence and apply that to being effective leaders. They spoke to InfoQ about the book.

Shane Hastie
on Aug 09, 2015
Gunther Verheyen on Scaled Professional Scrum – Nexus Framework

The Scaled Professional Scrum framework of Scrum.org provides guidance to organizations engaging in efforts to scale their product development done through Scrum. InfoQ interviewed Verheyen about the Nexus framework.

Savita Pahuja
on Aug 07, 2015
Architects Should Code: The Architect's Misconception

The responsibility of an architect reaches far past design and business concerns. Their design's implementation is ultimately their only measure of success; they should get their hands dirty and help.

Brandon Bryson
on Aug 06, 2015
Author Q&A on Agile Value Delivery - Beyond the Numbers

Larry Cooper and Jen Stone have written a book which provides advice and techniques for blending agile practices with portfolio, program and project management, taking a value focused approach to managing the outcomes of initiatives rather than focusing on the activities and practices which are the center of many methodologies. They spoke to InfoQ about the book and the ideas behind it.

Shane Hastie
on Aug 05, 2015
The Lean Machine: Bringing Agile Thinking to the Database

For some years now, Agile practices have been attracting application developers with their promise of short iterations, fast releases, and software that gets out there sooner. Those same practices are now entering the database space, but how can database development teams adapt, and where should they start?

Matt Hilbert
on Aug 05, 2015
Keeping Development ‘On Track’ with Use-Case Slices at Dutch Railways

How can you get from high level system requirements (features/epics) to the right level of specification to enable agile development? This article describes how Dutch Railways made the transition from large use cases which were completely written before development, to “Use Case 2.0” and why this helps them to deliver apps faster and with the right business value.

Jordi Reineman
on Aug 03, 2015
In-App Subscriptions Made Easy

There are various types of subscriptions: recurring, non-recurring, free-trial periods, various billing cycles and any possible billing variation one can imagine. But with lack of information online, you might discover that mobile subscriptions behave differently from what you expected. This article will make your life somewhat easier when addressing an in-app subscriptions implementation.

Ofir Sharony
on Aug 01, 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
Downscaling SAFe

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) with custom modifications to it in accordance with Agile and Lean values helped Seamless Payments to go through a period of organizational growth and prepare for further growth. This article describes the change that was done using a slimmed down version of SAFe that still maintained its core ideas.

Tomek Pająk Mikael Lundgren
on Jul 29, 2015

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