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InfoQ’s 2018, and What We Expect to See in 2019
We take a look back at what we say on infoQ in 2018, and think about what the next year might bring.
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The Current State of Blockchain - Panel Discussion (Part 2)
The final two panelists introduce themselves and share their views of the current state of the Blockchain world. We're joined by Richard Brown, CTO at R3 and David Gerard, journalist and author of "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain"
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How to Make Cross-Functional Operations a Team Effort
Increase transparency, facilitate the flow of communication, and increase productivity across your organization by cultivating the right approach and best practices in team building. Cross-functional collaboration lets you leverage the power of individual capabilities as well as teamwork to accelerate and improve operational effectiveness.
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The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part Two
As part of our core values of sharing knowledge, the InfoQ editors were keen to capture and share our book and article recommendations for 2018, so that others can benefit from this too. In this second part we are sharing the final batch of recommendations
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Author Q&A on the Book Project to Product by Mik Kersten
Mik Kersten has published a book, Project to Product, in which he describes a framework for delivering products in the age of software. Drawing on research and experience with many organisations across a wide range of industries, he presents the Flow Framework™ as a way for organisations to adapt their product delivery to the speed of the market.
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What Machine Learning Can Learn from DevOps
The fact that machine learning development focuses on hyperparameter tuning and data pipelines does not mean that we need to reinvent the wheel or look for a completely new way. According to Thiago de Faria, DevOps lays a strong foundation: culture change to support experimentation, continuous evaluation, sharing, abstraction layers, observability, and working in products and services.
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The Current State of Blockchain - Panel Discussion (Part 1)
The first two panelists introduce themselves and give their view of the current state of blockchain. John Davies, CTO and co-founder of Velo Payments, and Conor Svensson, author of the web3j library for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain, give their view on the current state of blockchain.
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Applying Agile for Developing Industrial Machinery
This is the story of a company developing industrial machinery products that became an organization with cross-functional teams using agile. Most important to their success are the people, from the new roles of product owner and scrum master, adapted to the industrial context, to the development teams that are learning self-organization, and the stakeholders involved in supporting the teams.
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CA Technologies' Agile Transformation: A Firsthand Perspective
Agile may not be capable of solving every last problem, but it can go a long way in preparing businesses for disruption and delivering a host of agile-based competitive advantages. Since CA began practicing agile at scale and business agility, we’ve made it easier for leaders, lines of business and teams to work together – and with our customers – on a global scale.
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Q&A on the Book Driving Digital Strategy
The book Driving Digital Strategy by Sunil Gupta provides guidelines and advice for executing fundamental digital transformations in companies, based on lessons from digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. To be successful you have to fundamentally change the core of your business and ensure that your digital strategy touches all aspects of your organization, argued Gupta.
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From Warfare to Outsourced Software Development
There are parallels between outsource software development and military engagements which can shed light on some tactics that may help delivering software products. Medhat explores three ideas from military strategy which project management can use to improve the likelihood of success in outsource software development projects.
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Three Keys to a Successful “Pre-Mortem”
Talking about what might go wrong acknowledges that many things are out of our control, and that we might mess up the things which are within our control. To have this conversation safely involves a structured activity called a pre-mortem. If held with some regularity, and always with creative problem solving time at the end, it can build a safe space for adaptation in the face of adversity.