BT

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ
Register Sign in

Unlock the full InfoQ experience

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources.

Log In
or

Don't have an InfoQ account?

Register
News Articles Presentations Podcasts Guides

Topics

Choose your language

InfoQ Architect Certification - image
InfoQ Architect Certification

Join Luca Mezzalira for this 5-week online cohort. Master socio-technical architecture leadership.

Register Interest.

 QCon London - image
QCon London 2026

Learn what works in AI, architecture, data, security & FinTech.

Early Bird ends Feb 10.

 QCon AI Boston - image
QCon AI Boston

Learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production—reliably, securely, and at scale.

Early Bird ends Feb 10.

InfoQ Homepage Culture & Methods Content on InfoQ

Articles

RSS Feed
Newer Older

  • Book Review: ATDD By Example

    “ATDD By Example” value proposition was to be an introductory hands-on guide to implementing and successfully applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) from zero. Despite doing a reasonable job of summarizing and/or pointing to several test-related practices required for any successful agile tester, the book ends up trying and failing to be all things to all readers.

    Manuel Pais
    on Dec 21, 2012

  • Tradeoffs: Giving up Certainty

    While organizations operate under an illusion of certainty, tradeoffs are inevitable. Giving up certainty does not mean giving up predictability. This article examines four flow choices for software delivery and presents three choices for IT Delivery: Throughput, Flexibility and all out speed.

    Paul Dolman-Darrall
    on Dec 20, 2012

  • Why the Agile Project Manager is the Secret Sauce for Development Projects

    The Agile project manager is sometimes referred to as the “secret sauce” for software development projects? Leo Abdala describes a recent development project at a Fortune 50 company where the Agile PM instilled confidence with and produced a value-generating product for the client

    Leonardo Abdala
    on Dec 18, 2012

  • A Proposal to Enhance the UML Notation

    Raul Rugiero proposes an enhancement to the UML notation whereby requirements and test cases, in particular acceptance tests, are strictly related. Agile methodologies highlight this aspect basing themselves on test driven approaches. The notation of UML use cases may be enhanced in order to allow enhanced UML tools to properly handle links between use cases and tests.

    Raul Rugiero
    on Dec 13, 2012

  • Why Agile Methods Work

    There is great economic value in looking at software processes from an execution perspective to examine their strengths and weaknesses. Keeping this perspective in mind keeps us at a safe distance from abusing buzzwords like Agile methods without really understanding the underlying principles that make them work.

    Yaser Ghanam
    on Dec 12, 2012

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2012

    This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Tutorials, Keynotes, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Big Data and Analytics, Continuous Delivery,Cross Platform Mobile, Dynamic Languages, Java Renaissance, Loose Concurrency & CAP Theorem Today, Mechanical Sympathy, NoSQL and many more!

    Abel Avram
    on Dec 12, 2012

  • Visualizing the Big Picture of your Agile Project

    Agile is all about the whole team experience. We plan together, code together, test together, and retrospect together so that everyone in the team is all on the same page. However, once your project grows bigger, teams start to get lost in pile of user stories and it gets harder for everyone to see that same big picture. This article discusses various ideas to visualize this big picture.

    Kulawat Wongsaroj
    on Dec 05, 2012

  • Interview and Book Review: Essential Scrum

    Essential Scrum by Kenny Rubin is a book about getting more out of Scrum. It’s an introduction to Scrum and its values, principles and practices, and a source of inspiration on how to apply it.

    Ben Linders
    on Dec 04, 2012

  • PaaS Is The Word

    This article presents a transition path to Platform-as-a-Service for IT. An exploration of the steps from pre-virtualization or virtualization through selecting and operating a PaaS.

    JP Morgenthal
    on Nov 29, 2012

  • Book Review: The Scrum Field Guide

    Mitch Lacey has written the book The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year in which he presents advice on how to implement many of the Scrum and XP practices. Shane Hastie from InfoQ reviewed the book and asked the author some questions about the approach. The publishers have made a sample chapter available for InfoQ readers.

    Shane Hastie
    on Nov 26, 2012

  • Making Architecture Matter

    In this article, authors describe how they used the corporate management system to communicate architecture requirements to all the architecture stakeholders in a large organization and how this transformation helped them achieve benefits like application and infrastructure stability.

    Harald Wesenberg Einar Landre
    on Nov 22, 2012

  • The Prioritization Divide: With Numbers or Without?

    While there are many methods that use stories as a means for prioritizing development, there's a basic divide that asks whether it should be done with numbers or without. There are arguments on both sides, but instead of examining these, people tend to fall into one side naturally. Once there, they can become quickly entrenched in the belief that the other camp is foolishly mistaken.

    Alex Adamopoulos Paul Dolman-Darrall
    on Nov 19, 2012
Newer Articles
Older Articles
BT