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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
The Agile Organisation: Are You Ready for Revolution?

In recent years there have been many attempts to offer the benefits of Agile to the whole organisation – not just development teams. Here, Helen Walton argues that becoming an Agile Organisation requires a radical revolution. The benefits are considerable, but few companies are truly prepared to take the plunge and instead focus on products and processes that ultimately disappoint.

Helen Walton
on Jun 14, 2014
Video Lesson Introducing Scrum and Agile

The video lesson Scrum fundamentals by Tommy Norman is a downloadable training which gives an introduction to agile software development using Scrum. InfoQ interviewed Tommy about why he made this introduction training, the roles, artifacts and events of Scrum, User Stories and collaboration in teams, and on-line resources where people can learn more about agile.

Ben Linders
on Jun 09, 2014
The Original Sin of Software Metrics

This article argues it is inherently wrong to set up software metrics to try and 'improve' the software development process. Using a fictitious scenario, this article explains the reasons why it is wrong, the damages it may cause, and offers some alternatives for managing software development.

Chen Ping
on Jun 05, 2014
Using SEMAT in Agile Adoption

The article Agile and SEMAT-Perfect Partners describes what the Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) initiative adds to agile and how SEMAT can be used when organizations adopt agile. InfoQ interviewed Ivan Jacobson and Ian Spence about what SEMAT is and how agile teams can use it, and on combining Essence from SEMAT with other software engineering frameworks like SAFe, CMMI, etc.

Ben Linders
on Jun 03, 2014
Taking Back Agile

Tim Ottinger's blog post I want Agile back earlier this year led to discussions in the agile community about the way that organizations are adopting agile and the services that the industry provides to supports them. Together with Ruud Wijnands he started "take back agile" which focuses on technical practices and craftsmanship in agile.

Ben Linders
on May 29, 2014
An interview with Matt Winn on JP Morgan’s Agile Transformation

Matt Winn, from J.P. Morgan’s securities group, Singapore describes his own perspective of using Large-Scale Scrum to create significant change within a tier-one financial services firm.

Stuart Turner
on May 27, 2014

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