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Are You the Barrier to Innovation?
You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends.
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Agile Transformation at Ericsson
Applying complex systems thinking, growing the agile mindset through storytelling, and visualizing the interplay; these are some of the things that drove the agile transformation at Ericsson. Having a leadership team that fully embraced agility, an independent group of agile coaches, and doing frequent retrospectives in the leadership team ensured that the transformation stayed on track.
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Using Checklists to Organize Software Development Processes
A checklist as a process organization tool has already made a good showing in aviation and healthcare. In this article, Zakhar Yung explains how Agile teams take advantage of checklists at different stages of software development processes including sprint planning, software testing, deployment and debugging, and discover their benefits for your own project.
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Adopting Continuous Delivery at teamplay, Siemens Healthineers
Continuous Delivery is about working in a way that keeps the system in a releasable state throughout its development. This article describes how a large software development organization at Siemens Healthineers started the transformation towards Continuous Delivery. It describes the strategy and tactics used to gradually and safely change the development process in a regulated medical domain.
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Four Ways to Take Charge in Your First Agile Project
Dudharejia dives into the details of Agile, as well as the Scrum process. The overarching lesson throughout this post is how newbies can take charge in an Agile project. The post discusses the importance of meetings, identifying strengths and weaknesses, using your team to the fullest extent, and how to avoid micromanaging.
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DDD With TLC
At the 2017 Explore DDD conference, Julie Lerman, a self-described Serial DDD Advocate, spoke about how to approach Domain-Driven Design with Tender Loving Care. InfoQ sat down with Lerman to ask about how she introduces DDD to new clients, and helps them be successful.
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Q&A on the Book Adaptive Space
The book Adaptive Space by Michael Arena explores what enables organizations to positively disrupt themselves and transform into responsive agile organizations. It describes four sets of connections, and five core principles, that support organizations increasing their agility.
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The Future-Ready Organization: An Interview with Agile Manifesto Co-Author Arie Van Bennekum
Co-Author of the Agile Manifesto and Thought Leader, Arie van Bennekum is probably one of the rare co-authors of the Agile Manifesto who never lost touch with the essence of agile. To become agile, people and organizations must shift to a totally different paradigm. Arie designed an Integrated Agile Transformation Model, a proven approach to transforming organizations to new agile paradigms.
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Microservices from a Startup Perspective
When starting a journey to microservices, knowing what to consider might be overwhelming. No golden rule that is easily applicable exists. Every journey is different, since every organization is facing different circumstances. In this article I am sharing some lessons learned and challenges from a startup perspective, and what I would do differently the next time introducing microservices.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems
The book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker explains how agile principles and practices can be used to build quality in from the start to develop medical and other safety-critical systems.
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How to Achieve Collaboration as a Key Driver for Continuous Testing
Far too often the dream of a successful digital transformation shatters against a limited, team-centric continuous testing strategy. This article describes how testing must be applied to fit not only agile teams but also the whole enterprise, why collaboration is the key enabler and how different testing techniques work together for overall success.
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The Cloud Native QA
The advent and widespread adoption of the cloud ecosystem presents a new challenge to the modern-day QA. What does it mean to be QA in a Cloud Native software business?