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A Roadmap to Agile Documentation

The agile mindset lies on the premise that all the tasks in an application lifecycle create some kind of value to the client. But when it comes to documentation, teams can find it hard to find such value. This article provides an agile approach to the production of different types of documentation, in different phases of an application lifecycle, adapted to the different target audiences.

Ester F. Gonçalves
on Jul 15, 2014
Shift Left Performance Testing - a Different Approach

This article will explain a different approach to traditional Multi User Performance testing; using the same tools but combine them with modern data visualisation techniques to gain early insight into location specific performance and application areas that may have "sleeping" performance issues.

Bernhard Klemm
on Jul 10, 2014
Cynefin 101 – An Introduction

This paper is to introduces the Cynefin model and its practices which can be used to address the uncertainty of the modern world. The practices that are introduced can be used to compliment traditional approaches to project, programme and portfolio management. This provides a more comprehensive approach that reflects the needs of management in an ever more uncertain world.

Greg Brougham
on Jul 09, 2014
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.

Abel Avram
on Jul 08, 2014
Burn-Down or Burn-Out? How to Beat the Red-Sprint Agile Anti-Pattern

There are ways to obtain sustainable pace beyond scrum that can help stem the increasing number of failing scrum projects. Because executing sprints as small projects often does not lead to the desired results, it is more effective to apply a backlog-item-oriented workflow and to treat sprints as iterations.

Sander Hoogendoorn
on Jul 05, 2014
Quantifying the Impact of Agile Software Development Practices

Rally Software and Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) are researching the impact of agile software development practices using data from Rally’s Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. InfoQ interviewed Larry Maccherone and Jim McCurley about their collaboration, measurements from the study, conclusions from the analysis and plans for further research.

Ben Linders
on Jul 03, 2014
How to Ideate? Be a Hunter

Having a hard time choosing an idea for a business? Have no ideas or worried your ideas are no good? You're in good company. Nearly every first idea is bad. It's not about the ideas but about the process. Keep at it. When you miss, learn from it and take another shot. Study your prey. Be an idea hunter.

Jeremy Stanton
on Jun 30, 2014
Making an Impact on 7000 Orphanages

Ahmad presents a set of useful techniques that can be applied in strategic workshop or in an initial product backlog session. He tells the story of how the techniques were used in a strategy workshop held in Cairo for a NGO who seeks to raise the standards for all orphanages across Egypt.

Ahmad Fahmy
on Jun 28, 2014
Book Review: Integration Testing from the Trenches

In this important and thorough treatise “Integration Testing from the Trenches” Nicolas Frankel starts from basic definitions and develops the concepts of integration testing with a casual formalism that's intuitive and fun.

Victor Grazi
on Jun 27, 2014
Agile Architecture Applied

Agile is adaptive. When and how to apply architecture depends on the context. This article first explains why this is the case and then how you can still give proper attention to architecture in an agile setting. Adaptability and conversation are the essentials.

Minze Tolsma Wim Heemskerk
on Jun 23, 2014
Q&A and Book Review of Scrum For The Rest of Us

Can you use Scrum outside software development? Brian Rabon wrote the book Scrum for the rest of us, a distilled guide that describes the essence of Scrum. This book explains Scrum without using information technology jargon which makes it suitable for all kinds of teams that want to use the Scrum method for managing their projects.

Ben Linders
on Jun 20, 2014
Book Review and Q&A of Strength-based Lean Six Sigma

The book Strength-based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement by David Shaked supports applying strength-based change approaches with lean thinking and Six Sigma. InfoQ interviewed David about applying strength-based techniques like appreciative inquiry, solution focused, positive deviance and 5-why's with Lean Six Sigma, and measuring performance in organizations.

Ben Linders
on Jun 16, 2014

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