InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Introducing Agility to Non-Agile Organizations
Jose Casal discusses using Kanban to introduce Agile principles and practices in non-Agile organizations, how Agility can help businesses improve their results and business performance metrics.
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Categories for the Working Programmer
Jeremy Gibbons explains categories, focusing on them as an organizing principle helpful in managing generic libraries.
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The Pursuit of Tappiness – a Case Study in Making Tablet Friendly Websites
Neil Turner discusses how TUI made two websites tablet friendly, what it means to optimize for tablet, how needed improvements were identified and how to ensure that future designs are tablet friendly
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How Can We Use Our Creative Power and Technological Opportunity to Address the Challenges of the 21st Century?
Gyorgyi Galik discusses our urban future and explores new possibilities to create projects and materials that change the environmental effects of art and design practices.
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Epic Estimation - Agile or High Risk Guesswork?
Ian Hawkins discusses the value in epic estimation, how to handle business expectations, what influences epic estimation and what makes it effective.
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Fast Conservative Garbage Collection
Rifat Shahriyar, Steve Blackburn, Kathryn McKinley show that conservative garbage collectors using Immix can be as performant and sometimes even faster than generational GCs.
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Not Just Layers! What Can Pipelines and Events Do for You?
Ian Cooper takes a look at two architectural patterns: pipelines for dealing with streams of data effectively, and events which provide significant advantages for loose coupling.
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Scalability Lessons from eBay, Google, and Real-time Games
Randy Shoup tells war stories from Google and eBay focusing on how to scale code, infrastructure, performance, and operations, along with hard-won lessons learned in scaling them.
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Four Things We Need to Know about Teams
Lachlan Heasman discusses the difference between groups and teams, Poole’s model of team development, the social motivational factors within teams, and the complexity leadership model for teams.
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SQL Strikes Back! Recent Trends in Data Persistence and Analysis
Dean Wampler takes a look at SQL’s resurgence and specific example technologies, including: NewSQL, Hybrid SQL, SQL abstractions on top of file-based data, SQL as a functional programming language.
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Collaborative User Research - Ways to Involve Stakeholders in User Research
Revathi Nathaniel explains the benefits of collaboration during the various stages of conducting user research (from conception to data analysis) and simple methods to involve stakeholders.
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Lean Kanban - Our Journey So Far
Thomas Lant presents how Lean Kanban was introduced into their organization, the challenges met, initial reactions and fears, the outcome.