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Spreading CMMI Practices among Agile Teams in Big Organizations

Agile methodologies have become mainstream because they provide a better fit to the modern, changing software world. CMMI is a cross-organizational approach which has proven successful in terms of quality assurance and cost when executed properly. Big organizations with self-organized agile teams can achieve technical maturity levels, by using a common metalanguage and a good-practices catalog.

Nicolás Afonso Alonso
on Dec 16, 2013
Agile Walls

BVCs, TOWs and POWs are very important tools in the agile world but what exactly are they? BVCs are Big Visible Charts, TOWs are Things on Walls and POWs are Plain Old Whiteboards – information radiators all. Using the right wallware and the information they provide can make or break an agile team.

Sharon Robson
on Dec 14, 2013
The Perfect Dev/Test Lab: 10 Principles that make it Possible

Software that drives the business typically takes inordinate amounts of time to develop and test. Now with new technologies able to normalize the private and public clouds the ultimate software development lab is not only feasible but cost-effective as well. To achieve hyper-agile software development, here are key principles for building the next-gen dev/test lab of enterprise DevOps’ dreams.

Rami Tamir
on Dec 12, 2013
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.

Abel Avram
on Dec 10, 2013
Applying Lean Thinking to Software Development

Lean’s major concept is about reducing waste, meaning anything in your production cycle that is not adding value to the customer is considered waste and should therefore be removed from the process. Steven Peeters explains how you can apply Lean principles in an IT environment.

Steven Peeters
on Dec 05, 2013
Building Innovative Organizations with Lean Thinking

For a modern IT company, innovation is equally critical to the company, its clients and its staff. Jeff discussed the important ingredients needed to create a culture of innovation in an organization. Drawing on his experiences at Thoughtworks Chengdu he examines the importance of leadership, lean thinking, problem solving mindset and people factors in fostering innovation.

Jeff Xiong
on Dec 03, 2013
Author Q&A and Book Excerpt: Directing the Agile Organisation

Evan Leybourn has written a book titled Governing the Agile Organisation in which he presents ideas about using agile approaches to management and a number of case studies on how the techniques have been applied in a number of disparate organisations.

Shane Hastie
on Nov 29, 2013
Agility, Big Data, and Analytics

How do you bringing agility into big data analytics? Learn what makes analytics uniquely different than application development, and how to adapt agile principles and practices to the nuances of analytics. Examine how the disciplines of data science and software development complement one another, and how these intersect in an agile project environment.

Ken Collier
on Nov 27, 2013
Sell Before You Build

“Before you write any code, make sure you have a failing test.” This was revolutionary when first pitched in the late 90’s. Many successful entrepreneurs have practiced a similar idea: “Before you build a product/service, make sure you have paying customers.” Naresh Jain explains his approach of finding effective MVPs to validate his Educational Product and why Agile Methods simply fail to do so.

Naresh Jain
on Nov 25, 2013
Is Your Application Ready?

We mostly ship software by date, squeezing all development and testing efforts toward that deadline. We prioritize what we think is important, and once our application passes a certain quality level, we’re ready to go live. But even when we do ship, can we tell the readiness status of our application?

Gil Zilberfeld
on Nov 22, 2013
The Best Process Is No Process

Bureaucracy often plagues large product development efforts. Just like technical debt slows down development, process debt slows down your business. Have you ever experienced 12,096,000% savings in time? Clarify strategy. Automate processes. Parallelize work. Collaborate intently. Did you know a hidden MS project default may be causing inflexibility? Eliminate process debt. Get to market faster

Lukasz Szyrmer
on Nov 19, 2013
Learning and Liminality in Agile Adoptions

In this 4th article in the series about Open Agile Adoption Dan Mezick presents an approach to take advantage of the natural stress that come about when making change in organisations to help achieve sustainable agile transitions.

Dan Mezick
on Nov 16, 2013