InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Jeff Patton on learning the ‘game’ of Agility and building the right thing
In this interview Jeff Patton contemplates ‘building the right thing’ while emphasising the importance of truly understanding the core elements of Agile. He explores differentiating between learning practices, best practices, rules and strategies and highlights how utilising ‘game space thinking’ encourages a more effective skills-based team approach to agility.
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Elisabeth Hendrickson on Building Quality In
Elisabeth Hendrickson discusses her move from consulting to take on the role of Director of Quality Engineering for Pivotal Labs, how important engineering technical practices are to building quality in from the ground up and how scaling agile across many teams requires a structure that supports self-organization within organizational constraints.
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Lynne Cazaly on Visual Agility and Thought Leadership
Lynne Cazaly joins us to discuss how adding visuals to your facilitation toolbox can help your listening and how thought leadership can help you stand out in a crowd.
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Simon Bennett discusses Contracts, Scaling and Agility
Simon Bennett emphasizes the primary differences in approach between ‘Contracting for Agile’ and ‘Agile Contracting’, expanding the discussion into what he sees as the key distinctions of ‘Agile at Scale’ and ‘Scaling Agile’ by using examples that highlight the importance of working with ‘now’
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Bjarte Bogsnes on Beyond Budgeting at Agile 2014
Bjarte Bogsnes discusses Beyond Budgeting and why those in the Agile community should be paying attention to it.
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Carol McEwan on the State of the Scrum Alliance
Carol talks about the growth of the Scrum Alliance to over 325000 members, the role of the Scrum Master, Scrum Gatherings around the world and taking Scrum beyond Software Development.
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Nico Bevacqua on Writing Modular JavaScript
In this interview, Nicolas Bevacqua talks about how he initially got into programming professionally as a DotNet developer and how he eventually made the transition to focusing primarily on Node.js development. He discusses his passion for writing open source projects for the JavaScript developer community and some of the projects that he is most passionate about.
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Roy Rapoport on Canary Analysis at Netflix
Roy Rapoport explains the concept of canary analysis and how Netflix uses it to deploy software to its internal systems.
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Mark Levison on the Magic and Science of Teams
Mark talks about what it takes to enable high-performing teams, the importance of stable teams, the value of cohesiveness, how the placement of water coolers and layout of lunch tables make a difference to team performance and how to overcome obstacles imposed by distance.
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Ashley Puls on the How and Why of Java Bytecode Manipulation
Ashley Puls explains Java bytecode manipulation: reasons for manipulating bytecode, libraries that help, how NewRelic is using it, and more.
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Karl Scotland introduces the Kanban Canvas
Karl Scotland introduces the Kanban Canvas – a sheet he has designed to be printed on A0 paper and used to collaboratively explore a kanban system. The canvas is built around the heuristics and related questions, with the goal being to co-create a system design by exploring and answering the questions. The Kanban Canvas can be downloaded here
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Gil Broza on the Human Side of Agile Management
At Agile 2014 Gil Broza spoke about what servant leadership really means, getting past the buzzwords to practical advice for managers and leaders on how to empower teams and individuals. He also previewed his upcoming book on the Agile Mindset.
