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    Interview with Michael Azoff from Ovum about How To Create the Agile Enterprise

    Large enterprises face three challenges: to innovate and act as a start-up, to use a budgeting process that keeps the organization’s strategy in touch with changing market conditions, and to transform the whole IT department to agile. Principal analyst Michael Azoff explains Ovum’s view on creating an agile enterprise.

    Ben Linders
    on Apr 10, 2013

  • The Real Question is Why?

    The Agile movement has driven a revolutionary change in the way we build and deliver software solutions. In the past few years Agile frameworks have become mainstream. Agile has solved the problems of the 90's and early 2000's. Now a new kind of problem is emerging that needs an equally elegant solution, how do we build the right solution? Do we know Why we are building it?

    Gordon Weir Russ Miles
    on Apr 08, 2013

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2013

    This article presents the main takeaway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Distributed Systems / REST, The Java Developer Track, The Developer Track, Building for Clouds, Real Startups, Creative Thinking & Visual Problem-solving, Handheld Banking and many more!

    Abel Avram
    on Apr 05, 2013

  • Bridging the Management Gap

    As Agile becomes widely accepted within IT organizations, one roadblock to more significant organizational change is becoming clear - resistance from management. Traditional command & control management no longer suffices in a globalized, knowledge-based economy. When will we reach the tipping point where organizations unshackle themselves from the limitations of command & control?

    Tiago Garcez
    on Apr 01, 2013

  • Capturing Compliance Requirements: A Pattern-Based Approach

    Assuring compliance across an enterprise is critical and necessitates a holistic approach for defining a consistent set of process and system level controls. In this article, authors discuss a new pattern-based framework to capture and manage business process compliance requirements. They also talk about implementation of the framework and two case studies in banking and e-business domains.

    Amal Elgammal Willem-Jan van den Heuvel Oktay Turetken Michael P. Papazoglou
    on Mar 27, 2013

  • Kanban Pioneer: Interview with David J. Anderson

    David J. Anderson, pioneer in Kanban for software development, recently came to Brazil. A group of InfoQ Brasil editors interviewed David about Lean, Agile and Kanban. See the highlights of the interview.

    Anselmo Martelini Rafael Buzon Eric Fer Leonardo Campos
    on Mar 26, 2013

  • Evaluating Agile and Scrum with Other Software Methodologies

    Historical data is a key resource for judging the effectiveness of software process improvement methods and also for calibrating software estimation accuracy. In this article, Capers Jones compares Agile and Scrum with a sample of contemporary software development methods using several standard metrics.

    Capers Jones
    on Mar 20, 2013

  • Queues – the true enemy of flow

    No-one wants IT projects to be late. But when they are, it’s rarely because of how long the actual work takes. Tasks and projects spend more time inactive, sitting in a queue, than being worked on. Despite this, most project management offices measure activity, not queues.This article examines why we should track queues and quantify their cost in order to make meaningful gains in speed of delivery

    Paul Dolman-Darrall
    on Mar 18, 2013

  • Interview and Book Excerpt: Mastering the Requirements Process

    Suzanne and James Robertson have released the 3rd edition of their book Mastering the Requirements Process. This edition includes material focused on the challenges of requirements in modern project environments, including agile and outsourcing relationships.

    Shane Hastie
    on Mar 13, 2013

  • What Scrum Master Are You Hiring?

    Have you looked at some of the ads for Scrum Masters lately? Some ads include the need for PMPs or they say they will give you a bonus if you complete the project at a certain time or to someone’s satisfaction.

    Johanna Rothman
    on Mar 11, 2013

  • Self-Organizing Organizations (For Real)

    This is a true story about a company that operates under principles of self-organization. It is organized according to the free will of each individual in the company, all of them freely choosing to co-operate for achieving some goals. All you’ve ever wanted to know about self-organized companies, without daring actually run one.

    Emmanuel Gaillot
    on Mar 04, 2013

  • Refactoring Legacy Applications: A Case Study

    To refactor legacy code, the ideal is to have a suite of unit tests to prevent regressions. However it's not always that easy. This article describes a methodology to safely refactor legacy code.

    Chen Ping
    on Feb 27, 2013
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