InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Stephanie Stewart on Organisational Transformation and Joining the Board of the Agile Alliance
At the Agile 2014 conference Stephanie was elected to the board of the Agile Alliabce, in this interview she talks about leading an agile transition in Valpack and shares her vision for the future of the Agile Alliance.
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Jeff Lindsay on Best Practices for Working with Containers and Docker
Jeff Lindsay explains the difference between virtualization and containers, what Docker brings to the table, best practices for using containers and what to avoid, and much more.
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Todd Montgomery on Protocol Design, Security, Formal Verification Tools
Todd Montgomery explains protocol design, the advantages of binary over text protocols, formal verification tools and methods, and much more.
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Heather Hassebroek and Kent McDonald on Positive Politics, Organisational Change, Leadership Engagement and Sharing Experiences through Stories
Heather and Kent present their experiences using positive politics to influence change in organisations undergoing an agile transition, how leadership beliefs can be influenced through upward micromanagement, playing by the rules to influence change and sharing stories to motivate action
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Esther Derby on Coaching Upwards and Still No Silver Bullet
Esther Derby talks about how coaching managers needs a different set of techniques to coaching teams and how every agile adoption should be based on the context of the organization, grounded in in the principles behind the ideas rather than trying to apply a practice or set of practices out-of-the-box.
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Andrew Sorensen on Real Time Programming, Live Coding Music, Memory Management
Andrew Sorensen explains live music coding with Extempore, the challenges of real time programming, garbage collection, static analysis to determine real time code meets its deadlines, hotswapping code, and much more.
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Randy Bias Talks OpenStack, Infrastructure as a Service, DevOps and Developers
Randy Bias of EMC talks to InfoQ about the recently concluded OpenStack summit at Paris and why application developers should care about IaaS and OpenStack. He covers DevOps and how it’s important to break down silos and how OpenStack and cloud computing can help. He also talks about what is needed to supplement OpenStack to make it more relevant for app development.
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Pat Reed on the Agile Alliance Agile Accounting Program
Pat Reed talks about the Agile Accounting program of the Agile Alliance, which provides guidelines for organisations to adapt their financial accounting approaches to accommodate developing products in and agile iterative way. One of the major challenges to large-scale implementation is how treat agile projects from a capitalization perspective and this program provides guidelines on how to do so.
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Chris Richardson Discusses CQRS and Event Sourcing via Docker
Chris discusses the rise of CQRS and Event Sourcing as a solution for all domains. With the advent of Docker, applications that manage complex domains can be built tested and deployed in minutes. Chris talks about the reasons for choosing a CQRS and Event Sourced solution as well as how the addition of Docker can help an organization embrace Continuous Delivery by using existing tools.
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Jerome Louvel on Web APIs with Restlet and APISpark
Jerome Louvel talks about Web APIs, the Restlet framework and his latest venture APISpark
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Kent McDonald & Kupe Kupersmith on "Yes and", Collaborative Conversations, Improv and Beyond Requirements
Kent & Kupe talk about their talk "Get the Liars in the Same Room", using "yes and" to encourage collaborative conversations while managing scope, starting with the end in mind and the forthcoming book Beyond Requirements aimed at business analysts and product owners on agile teams
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Laura M. Powers On Communication Chunking and the Joy of Influence
Laura M. Powers joins us to discuss how communication chunking can help get technical people out of the weeds and help executives get down from the clouds. We also discuss the joy of influence.