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Dialling in: Atkins and the Communication Challenge, Runners up to the 2017 Spark Award

The benefits of collaboration and knowledge sharing are well-known, yet any large organisation understands how challenging it is to keep employees feeling connected. The runners up to this year’s Spark Award, sponsored by HotelBeds, are Atkins, a design, engineering and project delivery organisation of over 18,000 people who have been experimenting with a mix of communication methods.

Helen Walton
on Apr 10, 2017
Development

Untangling an API-First Transformation at Scale. Lessons Learnt at PayPal – Part 3

This is the third in a three-part series that explores how PayPal has adopted a more API-first approach to building platform services. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the program aspects and some of the execution and operational challenges that had to be overcome.

Deepak Nadig Erik Hogan
on Mar 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

Tailoring Your DevOps Transformation to Organizational Culture

To build a high performance organization via DevOps, one often needs to change the organizational culture. Culture is a cornerstone which either amplifies or dooms strategic initiatives in your company. This case study shows how you can apply the competing values framework for culture change, supported by tools to measure and visualize culture.

Tomek Pająk
on Feb 22, 2017
DevOps

Virtual Panel on Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT has been supported by many and criticized by many. InfoQ reached out to enterprise experts to dig deeper into the pros and cons of this strategy and how/when/if is it applicable.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 31, 2016
DevOps

Respect Your Organisational Monoliths

There is a lot of information about DevOps, the technology, the culture, the behaviour. There is not a lot of information about tackling DevOps in large enterprises and there is certainly very little about tackling DevOps in large financial organisations. This article presents lessons learnt rolling out DevOps in a large insurance organisation.

Margo Cronin
on Aug 18, 2016
DevOps

DevOps Lessons Learned at Microsoft Engineering

Thiago Almeida from Microsoft shares how adopting DevOps practices resulted in better engineering and happier teams, and the lessons learned in that journey.

Thiago Almeida
on May 22, 2016 1
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Shawn Callahan on Putting Stories to Work

The book Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Callahan provides a process with a practical approach to master business storytelling; a leadership skill that helps to achieve results. It contains many stories that can help you to use storytelling for business communication and culture change.

Ben Linders
on May 10, 2016
Culture & Methods

Meaning it: What’s the Real Purpose of Corporate Social Responsibility?

A restaurant to give homeless people apprenticeships? A centre to foster social enterprise? A ‘round the nation’ bike ride? Helen Walton, chair of the Spark Award judging panel, talks to PwC about the range of their charitable activities in the UK, and why they’re about business, not image.

Helen Walton
on Apr 02, 2016 1
DevOps

Designing Delivery Book Review and Interview

Book review and interview with Jeff Sussna, author of "Designing Delivery", on cybernetics, service exchange, customer-centric brands and a new definition of quality in a service-oriented world.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 30, 2016
DevOps

DevOps Enterprise Adoption at Hearst Business Media with Pauly Comtois

Following our series of live interviews on DevOps Enterprise adoption, InfoQ has reached out to other technical leaders in large organizations to ask them about their DevOps initiatives. What challenges have they faced? Which improvements have they seen? What lies ahead? On this occasion we're talking with Pauly Comtois, Vice President of DevOps at Hearst Business Media.

Manuel Pais
on Mar 28, 2016
Culture & Methods

Living Values: A Company Imbued with Spirit

Helen Walton interviews Places for People, this year’s winner of the Spark Award. By putting people at the heart of how the company operates, Places for People creates a highly innovative culture with an inspirational purpose that delivers outstanding business results.

Helen Walton
on Mar 17, 2016 1
DevOps

Faster, Smarter DevOps

Moving your release cadence from months to weeks is not just about learning Agile practices and getting some automation tools. It involves people, tooling and a transition plan. Derek Weeks discusses some of the benefits and approaches to getting there.

Derek Weeks
on Feb 18, 2016 2