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Frugal Innovation: Doing More with Less

Frugal innovation provides ways to do more and better with less. It helps us to solve problems with limited resources in a sustainable way and to address inequality and empower billions of people at the bottom of the pyramid. Agile and frugal support each other; both aim to solve the problem at hand and nothing more, getting products into the hands of the users early and learning from that use.

Ben Linders
on Dec 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Agile People"

Pia-Maria Thorén has written a book titled Agile People, in which she challenges the role of Human Resources in organisations, identifies where the current approaches are not working and why they need to change to support modern organisational thinking.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 17, 2017
Development

Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2017

The eleventh annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,800 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors.

Abel Avram
on Dec 14, 2017
DevOps

Q&A with Eberhard Wolff On the Book “A Practical Guide to Continuous Delivery”

Eberhard Wolff speaks with InfoQ about his work "Continuous Delivery: A Practical Guide", where we detail some of the major concepts behind successful CD adoption and the ripple-effect it can have on developer productivity and quality of service.

Dylan Raithel
on Dec 14, 2017
Culture & Methods

What Does Company-Wide Agility Imply?

Self-organization, transparency, constant customer focus, and continuous learning: these are the four values that drive company-wide agility. InfoQ interviewed Jutta Eckstein and John Buck about how to apply a combination of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy to support these agile values, and what benefits this approach can bring.

Ben Linders
on Dec 11, 2017
Architecture & Design

What Should Software Engineers Know about GDPR?

EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is moving out of the transition period next summer to become enforceable GDPR strongly emphasizes risk-based thinking; you take every step to mitigate privacy risks until the risks become something you can tolerate. As a software developer, this will affect you. This is what you need to know.

Arto Santala
on Dec 10, 2017
Culture & Methods

Relearning to Learn

For my 30 plus years in tech, I've been reading and listening to tech mostly wrong. After in depth investigation into learning strategies, I've restructured my knowledge acquisition process. Find out how I've taken control of my learning queue, how I now perform active reading while taking creative notes, and hear how to use reflection and quizzing to lock knowledge in.

Don Denoncourt
on Dec 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Soft Skill Patterns for Software Developers: The “Learning from Unintended Failures” Pattern

Soft Skill Patterns describe human behaviours that effectively solve recurring problems. The "Learning from Unintended Failures" pattern helps us improve the resilience of a system after a failure. The pattern follows 4 steps: identify a failure, quickly resolve any immediate impact, analyse root cause and system behaviour during the failure, and finally generate and implement improvement ideas.

Kevin Jackson
on Dec 05, 2017
Culture & Methods

Customize Your Agile Approach: What Kinds of Leadership Does Your Project Need?

This is the fourth in a series of articles that will help you think about how you might want to customize your agile approach for your context. This article is about the kind of leadership your project might need and who might provide it. Teams new to agile or new to an organization need facilitation so they can create their own agile approach that works.

Johanna Rothman
on Dec 02, 2017
Mobile

Cryptocurrency and Online Multiplayer Games

The era of cryptocurrency opens new possibilities for game publishers and developers. However, it is not yet a fully-developed market and there are many things that should be taken into account before entering it. This article reviews the main pros and cons of entering this new and highly volatile field.

Anton Telitsyn
on Nov 30, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "A Seat at the Table"

In the book A Seat at the Table Mark Schwartz explains how the traditional role of the CIO conflicts with an agile approach for software development. He explores what IT leadership looks like in an agile environment, advising CIOs to set a vision for IT and take accountability for business outcomes.

Ben Linders
on Nov 29, 2017
Culture & Methods

Scaling Agile - Master Planning Together

The first article in the series about making scaled agile work shared a true scaling agile story; the second article described the importance and the how-to’s of slicing your requirements into potential releasable epics. So now we’re ready to build on top of those slices and that common understanding; we’re ready to do the master planning together.

Ole Jepsen
on Nov 26, 2017

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