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Software – Is it "Engineering" Yet?
At the GOTO Amsterdam 2015 conference Mary Shaw talked about progress towards an engineering discipline of software. She explored what it means to have an engineering discipline, how far we have progressed toward having one for software, and what can be the next steps.
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Getting Actions Done to Make Change Happen
Even with best intentions it can be challenging for people to follow up on actions that they agreed to do. They can start to doubt if they can do the actions and become afraid to fail. Several authors have recognized this and came up with suggestions for dealing with it and making change happen.
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Updated Management 3.0 Program
Jurgen Appelo, CEO at Happy Melly and author of the book Management 3.0, shares new updated Management 3.0 Program.
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QCon San Francisco 2015 (Nov 16-20): Track Topics Announced
Track topics for QCon San Francisco 2015 have been finalized and published to the conference website. Registrations for the event - which has been completely sold out for the past four years - are up 200% compared to the same time last year.
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Q&A with New Scrum Alliance CEO
The Scrum Alliance recently appointed a new Chief Executive Officer. Manuel (Manny) Gonzalez was appointed to the role after an extensive global search. InfoQ spoke to Manny about his background and his vision for the Scrum Alliance.
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Introducing The Arrow Kanban Board
Tomas Rybing shared the concept of the customized kanban board named ‘Arrow’. The Arrow is based on the priority pyramids approach. Arrow is a visualization of the backlog combined with the kanban board that visualizes the work process.
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State of Testing 2015 Report is Published
The state of testing 2015 report shares results from this year's testing survey that was organized by Joel Montvelisky from PractiTest and Lalit Bhamare from Tea-Time with Testers. It provides insights in the adoption of test techniques and practices, test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. InfoQ did an interview with the organizers of the survey.
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Challenges When Implementing Microservices and Why Programming Style Matters
Fred George talked about the Challenges in Implementing MicroServices and The Secret Assumption of Agile at the GOTO Amsterdam 2015 conference. InfoQ interviewed him about how make microservices as small as possible, challenges when implementing microservices and how to deal with them, why programming style matters, and what developers can do to develop their code writing skills.
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The Lego Flow Game
Joe Mcgrath, scrum master and coach in his latest blog explained the Lego Flow Game.
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Experiences from DevOps at Nokia HERE
An interview with Ivan Kusalic, Software/DevOps engineer at Nokia HERE in Berlin, about why they decided to apply DevOps, how DevOps has changed their way of working, which benefits they are getting, and the challenges that they had and how they dealt with them when development and operations became one team. Kusalic also gives some advice for applying DevOps with teams.
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Supporting Practices Beyond Scrum to Become Agile at Organizational Level
Scrum is a simple and lightweight methodology therefore, scrum alone is not enough.
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Agile Fluency Workshop at Agile Australia
James Shore presented a workshop at Agile Australia titled “Bringing Fluency to your Agile teams: Coaching for Best-Fit Agile”. The focus of the workshop was the use of the Agile Fluency model, which he and Diana Larsen have developed, as a tool for coaches to use when choosing the approach to working with teams based on their level of fluency with the agile values, principles and practices
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Developments in IT Project Management
The demand for IT project managers is increasing. Agile methodologies support collaboration with distributed teams for creative problem solving. The Internet of Things, cloud, big data, and cyber security will continue to dominate the IT landscape. Project managers have to pioneer IOT initiatives, be prepared for the influx of data and ensure that deliverables from their projects are secure.
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How to Use Agile at Home
Agile is not meant only for software development. People implement Agile practices in their personal lives too. This post talks about implementation of Agile at home.