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Critical Metrics to Keep Delivering Software Effectively in the "New Normal" World
The health of your software delivery capability is critical in the ‘new normal’ world. This requires the ability to track a hierarchy of metrics. Our top five overall delivery health metrics include: Time to Value; Deployment Frequency; and Team Engagement. Whichever metrics you choose, it is managing to metrics that is critical in the ‘new normal’ world.
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What Do AI and Test Automation Have in Common?
These days AI is a big buzzword. While it rises in popularity, the controversy surrounding it flourishes as well. We will demystify AI, and see how it is already embedded in our everyday life, and then you are going to learn about how we (the folks at Testim.io) utilised this kind of groundbreaking technology to bring test automation to the next level.
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The Value and Purpose of a Test Coach
Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters. In this article we hear from someone living this new role, using Domain Oriented Testing on a daily basis to ensure acceptance tests have full story coverage, and unit tests verify business behavior, not implementation.
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Ideas for Remote Retrospectives that Engage
Retrospectives have been shown to be an important tool for teams to improve their ways of working and increase collaboration. In person, retrospectives are well understood with many approaches and techniques. This article looks at how to carry the practice across when working remotely.
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Q&A on the Book The Science of Organizational Change
In The Science of Organizational Change, Paul Gibbons challenges existing theories and tools of change management and debunks management myths. He explores going from a change management to a change-agility paradigm and provides 21st-century research on behavioral science, that affects topics such as project planning, change strategy, business-agility, and change leadership in a VUCA world.
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Failover Conf Q&A on Building Reliable Systems: People, Process, and Practice
One of the biggest engineering challenges associated with maintaining or increasing the reliability of a system is knowing where to invest time and energy. InfoQ recently sat down with several engineers and technical leaders who are involved with the upcoming Failover Conf virtual event, and asked their opinion on the best practices for building and running reliable systems.
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Data-Driven Decision Making – Optimizing the Product Delivery Organization
The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. Applying Hypotheses, CD Indicators and SRE’s SLIs / SLOs enables a software delivery organization to optimize for effectiveness, efficiency and service reliability.
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Results from the InfoQ Reader Survey 2019
At the end of 2019, InfoQ ran a survey of our readers to find out what tools, techniques, and languages they were using. This is a summary of the results.
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Engaging and Being Engaged as a Professional Coach – Candid Advice for Coaches & Clients
As a coach, what do you need to know to have more success, getting your foot in the door of a client company? What obstacles will you have to overcome? As a company, what do you need to know about a coaching profession, not to brush off an experienced and qualified coach, while opening flood gates for charlatans, cheer-leaders, and 'best-practices" experts - and by doing so, hurting yourself
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Leading through Experimentation in a Distributed Agile Organization
Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. When your teams and organizations are distributed, experimentation becomes the primary tool to aid our change navigation. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation are important for agile coaches and all leaders.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2020
QCon returned to London this past March for its fourteenth year in the city, attracting over 1,600 senior developers, architects, data engineers, team leads, and CTOs. This article provides a summary of the key takeaways.
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Java's Missing Features: Five Years Later
Ben Evans revisits his take on Java's Missing Features from 2015 and compares how the language has evolved compared to his observations at the time.