InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Continuous Delivery and the Four Principles of Low-Risk Software Releases
More than a year since his book Contiuous Delivery came out, author Jez Humble talks about changes in CD, and its relationships with Cloud development, ALM. He also shares his Four Principles Of Low-Risk Software Releases. Other topics include TDD, feedback at different stages of the pipeline, and his involvement with Devops.
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Erik Meijer discusses programming language design, effects and some web programming problems
Erik Meijer distinguishes between two kinds of programming languages, pure functional and all the others. He emphasizes some issues regarding mixing higher order programming with effects. Erik then talks about the nature of Javascript, and true problems we need to solve in web programming.
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Vickie Gray - The Core Protocols
Vickie Gray, author of the book Creating Time, shares her insights on the Core Protocols and how they can be used to solve many of the common problems that plague teams. The Core Protocols provide a common API on which the team can operate when performing Agile processes like Scrum or Kanban, and according to Vickie, we need this common API because humans are much more complicated than code.
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Eric Steven Raymond on the Hacking Culture and Agile
Eric Steven Raymond, in an interview at the Agile Culture Conference, talks about the hacking culture and some of the lessons the Agile community could learn from open source development.
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Hendrik Esser on Leadership in a Large Scale Agile Transition
Hendrik Esser discusses the leadership challenges and changes in Ericsson's large scale Agile transition. He describes how trust and transparency have been achieved across all levels of the organization, and the cultural changes that have resulted.
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Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun
Adam Weisbart discusses making Agile fun, through the use of resources he has developed such as "Build Your Own Scrum", "Retrospective Cookies", "Update The Card Wall" and "Agile Antipatterns", all of which can be found at http://weisbart.com/.
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Stefan Tilkov on REST and Hypermedia, ROCA, WebSockets vs. HTTP
Stefan Tilkov explains the importance of Hypermedia in REST and how to use it, ROCA (Resource oriented client architecture), WebSockets vs polling or server sent events, and much more.
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The Core Protocols
In this interview, Jim and Michele McCarthy, co-founders of McCarthy Technologies, Inc. and authors of the book Software for Your Head, share their insights on the Core Protocols and the Core Commitments on which they’re based. These tools provide a set of structured interactions between people on a team, and when coupled with safety, freedom, and radical democracy, can lead a team to greatness.
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Mike Cottmyer on Enterprise Level Agile Transformation
Mike Cottmyer talks about the three aspects needed for enterprise-wide agile adoption: structure, practice & culture and how they need to be incrementally changed to ensure agile transformation sticks. He discusses the importance of program and portfolio level changes and how organisational transformation needs a "guitar mummy" approach to embed the new ways of working.
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How to Design an Effective Culture
Jim & Michele discuss designing culture and making really true teams that have collaborative intimacy and solving really hard problems with great teams. Building on their 16 years research, experiments and working with teams they talk about how their approach can build environments of hyper-productivity and joy in work.
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Laurent Sansonetti on Writing Ruby Apps for iOS with RubyMotion
Laurent Sansonetti explains using Ruby for iOS development with RubyMotion, how Garbage Collection works in RubyMotion, the library ecosystem, the state of debugging and profiling, and much more.
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Liz Keogh Discusses Behaviour Driven Development and Cynefin
Independent Lean and Agile Coach Liz Keogh talks to InfoQ about how Behaviour Driven Development isn't really about testing and how knowing where you are in the Cynefin framework can help you choose more appropriate practices for your project.
