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STEP – A Map for an Agile Journey

Are you finding joy in work and delighting your customers? STEP is simple map for an Agile-inspired journey of continuous improvement. Start by Stopping to visualize your work-flow. Transform your way of work, limiting the amount of work-in-process. Then Expand your improvements, inspire more people to develop the habit of team learning. Finally, keep walking, keep Perfecting your way of work.

Horia Slușanschi
on Aug 14, 2012
Wireframes: A Great Way to Start Development Projects

In this article, Andreas Wulf introduces wireframing as a simple and effective way to kickstart your development projects. Wireframes allow you to present your ideas in a tangible form so that can be shared and debated (without writing any code). By leaving out graphic design details, wireframes are not only quick and easy to create and change, they help us stay focused on the “big picture”.

Andreas Wulf
on Aug 07, 2012
Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams

Continous feedback is important in helping team members course correct and align themselves to the larger goals of an agile team. It fosters a healthy environment of openness and honest feedback among team members which is critical for an Agile team to learn and adapt quickly to perform at their best potential. Building a great feedback culture is key to building successful self organised teams.

Anand Vishwanath
on Jul 31, 2012
The Culture Game - a book by Dan Mezick

The book looks at the foundations of culture, what constitutes organisational culture and discusses ways to encourage and lead cultural transformation. Drawing on his experience with Agile practices the author examines the values that underlie culture, shows how the Agile values engender organisational learning, and how important a learning culture is to success in the modern business environment

Shane Hastie
on Jul 26, 2012
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2012

The first annual QCon New York brought together over 400 team leads, architects and engineering directors. This article summarizes the key takeaways from the event as blogged and tweeted by attendees.

Abel Avram
on Jul 17, 2012
Culture & Methods

My Experience as a QA in Scrum

The QA role in Scrum is much more than just writing test cases and reporting bugs. In this article, Priyanka Hasija shares her experiences and the valuable lessons learned over the past 2 years while serving as a QA analyst on a Scrum team. She explains how QAs not only perform agile tests but also fill many other roles and responsibilities, earning them a place of importance on the team.

Priyanka Hasija
on Jul 17, 2012
Virtual Panel: Code-to-Test Ratios, TDD and BDD

In the last couple of months several online discussions took place about test first or test last, code-to-test ratios or whether BDD is really just TDD. InfoQ asked the opinion of BDD and TDD experts.

Manuel Pais
on Jul 13, 2012
Writing Automated Acceptance Tests with Spec Flow

Acceptance or functional testing is a type of testing where a system is tested to see if the required specifications are met. These tests are a type of black-box testing where the internal implementation is irrelevant. Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali demonstrates how to automate these tests using SpecFlow.

Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali
on Jul 06, 2012
Kanban for Skeptics

As a change agent, you constantly need to reassure people that the path we follow is worthwhile traveling. Kanban raises much harder questions on a management and leadership level. This article summarises the most common arguments raised against Kanban and discusses how to tackle them, with links to a free e-book that Nick wrote.

Nick Oostvogels
on Jul 02, 2012
Lessons From A DevOps Journey

Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development for over six years and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. He recently shared his experiences in a talk at the Agile Development Practices West conference entitled "Lessons From A DevOps Journey". InfoQ caught up with Matt prior to the conference to find out more about his experiences in DevOps.

Craig Smith
on Jun 27, 2012
My 10 things for making your Agile adoption successful

In response to the large percentage of unsuccessful organizational change efforts consultant Allan Kelly offers his advice and guidelines for successful agile adoption in the form of a top-ten list of things managers and teams can do to increase their likelihood of success.

Allan Kelly
on Jun 25, 2012
Culture & Methods

An Interview with Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks CTO

Dr Rebecca Parsons is the Chief Technology Officer for Thoughtworks, and a Director of the Agile Alliance. At the Agile Australia conference in Melbourne she discussed the trends in database technology around NoSQL databases, the linking of continuous design with continuous delivery and the impact of the mainstream adoption of agile practices on the Agile Alliance.

Shane Hastie
on Jun 19, 2012