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Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility

The book Enterprise Agility by Sunil Mundra aims to make you think about organizations as living systems that thrive on fast paced change. It’s intended for leaders, managers, and coaches, who want to improve the agility of their organization and develop the personal traits that enable change.

Ben Linders Sunil Mundra
on Aug 07, 2018
Architecture & Design

Agile: Reflective Practice and Application

We explore how successful software development is based on the following three intertwining thought processes: Systems Thinking, Community Context and Reflective Practices. A majority of unsuccessful transformations result from a failure by members of the team to grasp that they are contributing to a larger system, or an unwillingness to learn how to improve, or that software is a team sport.

John Yorke
on Aug 04, 2018
Architecture & Design

Q&A on the Book "Microservices, a Practical Guide, Principles, Concepts, and Recipes"

The book “Microservices, a Practical Guide, Principles, Concepts and Recipes” by Eberhard Wolff explores technology stacks for microservices-based architectures that can be used on the implementation decisions at the overall system level. Targeted to architects, developers and operations, it provides a set of recipes along with executable samples that can be used to address different needs.

Eberhard Wolff Rui Miguel Ferreira
on Aug 03, 2018
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2018

This year, at the seventh annual QCon New York, we had in total 143 speakers across the 117 sessions, workshops, AMAs, Open Spaces and mini-workshops. Topics included containers and orchestration, machine learning, ethics, modern user interfaces, microservices, blockchain, empowered teams, modern Java, DevEX, Serverless, chaos and resilience, Go, Rust, Elixir, and security.

Abel Avram
on Aug 01, 2018
Cloud

How Contract Tests Improve the Quality of Your Distributed Systems

Catching bugs at the end of a development cycle is costly, but how do you incrementally test complex distributed systems? In this article, Marcin Grzejszczak looks at an integration testing approach for communication between components. He reviews contract testing, and Spring Cloud Contract, as one solution.

Marcin Grzejszczak
on Jul 29, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agnostic Agile: The Key to a Successful Lean Agile Transformation

Agnostic Agile principles facilitate and accelerate both the organization’s transformation as well as its Lean Agile evolution. Internalizing the Lean Agile Values and Principles are key to a successful Lean Agile transformation. Organizational complexity demands a multi-framework approach. A dogmatic, prescriptive approach to Agile is not only dangerous but is not Agile at all.

Tim Guay
on Jul 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Coaching Technical Practices

In the past 4-5 years I have been working as a software development coach, helping organizations around London improve their technical practices. I focus on XP practices, specifically TDD, Pair Programming, Refactoring and Simple Design. In this article I share my experiences organizing coaching sessions, including subject selection and sequencing, exercises for each subject and session formats.

Pedro Santos
on Jul 23, 2018
Culture & Methods

Measuring Tech Performance: You’re Probably Doing It Wrong

We try our best to measure our performance, and along the way identify just the right OKRs and KPIs and ABCs. There’s no One True Metric That Matters, but there are some useful guidelines and some all-too-commonly made mistakes. Use measures that focus on outcomes, not output, and measures that optimize for global or team outcomes, not local or individual outcomes.

Dr Nicole Forsgren PhD
on Jul 22, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Testing in the Digital Age

The Book Testing in the Digital Age by Tom van de Ven, Rik Marselis, and Humayun Shaukat, explains the impact that developments like robotics, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and big data are having in testing. It explores the challenges and possibilities that the digital age brings us when it comes to testing software systems.

Tom van de Ven Ben Linders
on Jul 19, 2018
Culture & Methods

Peer Reviews Either Sandbag or Propel Agile Development

Agile teams are hungry for feedback, but are they getting it fast enough? If your peer review process isn’t structured right, it could be dragging down your development. This article explains how your team can unlock the full potential of code and document reviews by employing a structured, but flexible process that accelerates development and fosters a culture of collaboration

Patrick Londa
on Jul 12, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Fluid

The book Book Fluid: How Culture, Hidden Opportunities, and Flatter Structures Lead to Profitable Innovation explores how to create a culture of change in companies. Najeeb Khan shows how fluid companies can act with higher speed and experiment to innovate, and how to transform towards a flat structure that allows everyone to test and validate ideas.

Najeeb Khan Ben Linders
on Jul 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Professional Product Owner

The book The Professional Product Owner explains what Product Owners can do to become real entrepreneurs who initiate and drive products, and what teams can do to release frequently. It provides ideas and personal anecdotes for effectively applying the Scrum Product Owner role and activities.

Ralph Jocham Ben Linders Don McGreal
on Jul 05, 2018

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