InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Neal Ford on Giving Technical Presentations
Neal Ford shares tips and techniques he's learned from his experience on how to become a better presenter. He offers a number of strategies that can help you give good technical presentations and develop better slide decks.
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Andrew Betts on Developing for Mobile with HTML5
Andrew Betts, founder of FT labs, discusses emerging trends in mobile development using web technologies, the benefits of developing for the web over building native, the difficulties of dealing with browsers and tooling.
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Pollyanna Pixton on Collaborative Leadership
Pollyanna is collaborating with two others to write a book on Collaborative Leadership. In this interview she gives an overview of how leadership needs to promote ownership, build a culture of trust and a focus on value for both customers and the organization to enable the formation of high-performing teams.
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Gabrielle Benefield on Flexible Contracts
Gabby Benefield has spent much of the last three years working on a contracting model that is outcomes focused and allows customers and suppliers to overcome the barriers inherent in most contracts. The most common contracting models in use today (fixed scope or time-and-materials) actually increase risk in software development. She has worked with IT lawyer Susan Atkinson to develop an alternate
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Laurent Bossavit on Creating an Archive of Agile Knowledge and the Art of Being Wrong
Laurent is the Archivist for the Agile Alliance, creating a repository of conference sessions and other knowledge the Alliance collects. He also examines the value of being wrong (and being able to admit it) which he has written and spoken about extensively.
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Joshua Kerievsky on Anzen and Safety in Software
Joshua Kerievsky tells us about Anzen and his experience in taking the concept of safety from the manufacturing world and tailoring it to software development teams and organizations. By having ONE core value - safety - teams and organizations can keep from falling into the common pattern of practicing a superficial form of Agile and/or Lean development without getting any of the results.
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Tom Dale on Ember and JavaScript Frameworks
Tom Dale, co-creator of the Ember JavaScript MVC framework, discusses the past, present and future of the framework. He also addresses the proliferation of JavaScript frameworks and libraries and how he deals with critics in the JavaScript community.
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Ola Ellnestam on The Mikado Method, Win-Win Conversations and Agile in Northern Europe
Ola Ellnestam talks about the Mikado Method for large scale refactoring of legacy systems, his talk at the Agile 2013 conference on Win-Win Conversations and the Agile community in Northern Europe
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Diana Larsen on Retrospectives, Liftoff and Agile Fluency
Diana Larsen discusses her Agile works including Agile Retrospectives, Liftoff, the Agile Fluency model as well as the future of Agile and the Agile Alliance.
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Daniel Mezick on Creating Communitas Using Open Space Events
In this third segment Dan Mezick talks about how creating a pulse around Open Space events helps organisations create a sense of community, deal with uncertainty and create an environment which sustains their agile adoption for the long term.
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Demystifying Protocols and Serialization Performance with Todd Montgomery
Todd Montgomery talks about improving serialization times and throughput can by understanding how your computer processes and stores data. With this new understanding, architects and developers can build their own protocols to efficiently transmit data. Todd's advice sheds new light on why software developers choose their current serialization and marshaling techniques and how they can improve.
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Steve Adolph on Effective Communication and Healthy Backlogs
Steve Adolph discusses his PhD research on communications in organisations, the importance of boundary spanners and how a large backlog becomes an impediment to product development flow. He talks about he importance of the ScrumMaster role, problems with Product Owners and where Business Analysis can add value.
