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Practices for DevOps and Continuous Delivery

DevOps is an attempt to break the barrier between development and operations teams, who are both required for the successful delivery of software says Danilo Sato. His book Devops in Practice: Reliable and automated software delivery provides a hands-on approach for implementing continuous delivery and DevOps practices.

Ben Linders
on Jul 10, 2015
Business, Design, and Engineering: Developing Collaboration-Culture

The collaboration of a company and its multidisciplinary units has never been more crucial than now. Everything we make today depends upon our ability to stay current, move nimbly, innovate, engage and delight. Those things are too difficult to achieve without cross-team collaboration.

Jaimee Newberry
on Jul 09, 2015
Implementing Agile Delivery for Non-Software IT Projects

Most organizations avoid using Agile for IT projects that do not involve software delivery (e.g. roadmap planning and architecture development). These projects deliver high value, but are often the most risky of all projects - and high risk demands Agile delivery. This paper discusses how Agile can be successfully adopted to deliver these projects by going back to the basics of Agile philosophy.

Dipanjan Munshi
on Jul 08, 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
Article Series: Design and Technology: Joining Forces for a Truly Competitive Advantage

This article series offers readers tactical approaches to building software that your customers love. Break down existing silos and create an environment for cross-collaborative teams: placing technology, business and user experience design at the core.

Sarah Howe
on Jul 06, 2015
Q&A with Ron Jeffries on The Nature of Software Development.

The book "the nature of software development" intents to help people to organize their thoughts about value and find ways to deliver value in software development. It's a book of questions, not of answers, says author Ron Jeffries, for readers to discover the natural way to develop software, the simple way, inside themselves.

Ben Linders
on Jul 05, 2015
Business, Design and Technology: Joining Forces for a Truly Competitive Advantage

The list of industries being disrupted by digital technologies is growing. To embrace this new digital world, companies need to change their practices and the way they use technology.

Ben Melbourne
on Jul 04, 2015
User Story Driven Docs

At OutSystems we stopped trying to document the UI and started doing user story driven documentation. In this article I'll tell you why you should avoid document the UI, and how to check if you're already doing it. I'll also tell you how focusing on user stories changed our team's culture, and the process we're currently using to create documentation for OutSystems Platform.

Joao Fernandes
on Jul 03, 2015
From a Project to a Product Approach Using LeSS at Agfa Healthcare

By changing the inner workings from a project perspective to a product perspective Agfa Healthcare established a less complicated process using a single backlog for the entire organisation. Main advice is to try to avoid setting up silos where they do not belong. When applying LeSS it is important to stick to its basic rules even though they are, in most organisations, very disruptive.

Jurgen De Smet
on Jul 01, 2015
An Agile Input Management Process Framework - The Agile IMP

Agile methods and processes such as Scrum give us conceptual tools to implement our innovative ideas. But that toolset seems to miss a crucial part: A well-structured ideas development process. The Agile IMP (Input Management Process) proposes a conceptual framework for managing input from multiple sources, for maturing input and for basing product decisions on soundly evaluated propositions.

Ina El-Kadhi
on Jun 30, 2015
The Pitfalls that You Should Always Avoid when Implementing Agile

Moving from traditional project management to agile is a paradigm shift. From push to pull systems from a control-and-command culture to a trust culture where authority is delegated. A good structure with some control mechanisms will most likely help you get the wanted results quicker. This article discusses the role that management plays in organizations that have decided to adopt agile.

Annette Vendelbo
on Jun 27, 2015
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Why You Should Definitely Migrate Existing Apps to the Cloud

In this article we’ll explore various benefits of migrating your existing apps to the cloud in detail so that you can make an informed decision.

Basant Singh
on Jun 24, 2015

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