InfoQ Homepage Culture & Methods Content on InfoQ
-
/articles/scrum-trello/en/smallimage/article icon.jpg)
Scrum with Trello
Trello, with more than 10M users worldwide, is fast becoming a popular tool for agile teams of all flavours. In this article we look at some of the emerging good practices and patterns people are adopting when using Trello to manage their Scrum process. From basic board setup, to life without child tasks and the most useful plugins you can use to extend Trello to get the most out of it
-
/articles/agile-productivity-willpower-neuroscience/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Agile Productivity: Willpower and the Neuroscience Approach
Productivity depends on the ability to concentrate and to keep that concentration long enough to advance towards your goals and get results. This article explores three strategies to save willpower energy and increase the ability to concentrate, and shows what pieces of Scrum work for which of the three strategies to increase productivity.
-
/articles/agilenz-analytics-gibson/en/smallimage/unnamed_logo.jpg)
Lana Gibson on Using Analytics to Influence Content Design
Lana Gibson gave a talk at the AgileNZ conference on using analytics data to design website content, based on her experiences as Content Performance Lead working on the GOV.UK whole of government website.
-
/articles/accessibility-inclusive-design/en/smallimage/LOGO.jpg)
A Web for All: Accessibility and Inclusive Design
Accessibility allow everyone to have access to information and services. The goal is to provide those with disabilities the same opportunities as their normative counterparts. This article explores how accessibility does not have to be a painful, after the fact initiative, if products are designed with accessibility at the start using inclusive design.
-
/articles/book-review-lean-IT-field-guide/en/smallimage/logo-agile.jpg)
Q&A on the Lean IT Field Guide
In the book The Lean IT Field Guide Mike Orzen and Tom Paider explain how to initiate, execute, and sustain a Lean IT transformation. InfoQ interviewed them about how lean can be seen as a learning system, why managers should have both technical and social skills, how to assure that changes will sustain, and establishing a culture of engineering excellence and craftsmanship.
-
/articles/agile-approaches-test-planning/en/smallimage/agile-logo.jpg)
Agile Approaches in Test Planning
At Agile Testing Days 2015, Eddy Bruin and Ray Oei explained how to satisfy the needs of stakeholders who ask for test cases, test plans, and other comprehensive test artifacts without writing large test plans. An interview about test plans in agile, how to make stakeholders aware that they can influence quality, and which agile practices they recommend for testing.
-
/articles/book-review-creating-great-teams/en/smallimage/mmteams_xlargecover.jpg)
Q&A on Creating Great Teams
The book “Creating Great Teams - How Self-Selection Lets People Excel” by Sandy Mamoli and David Mole explores the concepts of teams that pick themselves and provides step-by-step instructions on how you can use self-selection to establish teams.
-
/articles/stubbing-mocking-service-virtualization-differences/en/smallimage/HiRes.jpg)
Stubbing, Mocking and Service Virtualization Differences for Test and Development Teams
What are the most important differences between a stub, a mock and a virtual service? When should they be used by both test and development teams? Service virtualization is a technique for decoupling a test suite from environmental dependencies that is growing in popularity. It is part of the broader category of "test doubles" that include mocks and stubs...
-
/articles/Diagnosing-Common-Java-Database-Performance-Hotspots/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Diagnosing Common Database Performance Hotspots in our Java Code
Java performance issues are often attributable to bad database access patterns. In this article a top performance field engineer demonstrates his patterns for diagnosing database related issues.
-
/articles/agilenz-deprogramming-testing/en/smallimage/logo-agile-1.jpg)
Q&A With Mike Talks on Why Agile Testing Needs Deprogramming
Mike Talks, Test Manager at Datacom, gave a talk at the Agile New Zealand 2015 conference on Deprogramming the Cargo Cult of Testing. Afterwards he explained why agile testing needs deprogramming, and how this can be done.
-
/articles/agile-base-patterns/en/smallimage/Order-From-Chaos-Music-Crop.jpg)
The Agile Base Patterns, a Cross-Quadrant Conversation
Lyssa Adkins and Dan Greening had a chance to explore the ideas behind the Agile Base Patterns, looking at the underlying intent and goal of a wide range of agile practices. They discuss the implications of the Solve Systemic Problems pattern in detail and how doing so almost forces people in the ScrumMaster role to move into a coaching stance
-
/articles/book-review-visualization-examples/en/smallimage/book-cover-2.jpg)
Q&A on the book Visualization Examples
The book Toolbox for the Agile Coach - Visualization Examples by Jimmy Janlén can be used by agile software development teams to visualize and improve their collaboration and communication. InfoQ interviewed Janlén about the strengths of visualizations and how teams can use them to track progress, deal with blockers, celebrate successes and improve.