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Lessons From A DevOps Journey

Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development for over six years and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. He recently shared his experiences in a talk at the Agile Development Practices West conference entitled "Lessons From A DevOps Journey". InfoQ caught up with Matt prior to the conference to find out more about his experiences in DevOps.

Craig Smith
on Jun 27, 2012
Interview with Simon Baker, Author of No Bull

InfoQ has interviewed Simon Baker, cofounder of Energized Work and the 2009 recipient of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award, author of the "No bull" publication on the past 12 years of Agile.

Marta Jasinska
on May 28, 2012
The Day I Became Unnecessary - Part 2

In the second of two articles Claudio Kerber talks about his experiences in team formation and collaboration and explains the process whereby he "became unnecessary" as the team he was working with built trust and cohesion through trust, shared knowledge and shared experiences. He examines the theoretical underpinnings and discusses ways in which servant leadership emerges.

Claudio Kerber
on Apr 09, 2012
The Day I Became Unnecessary - Part 1

In the first of two articles Claudio Kerber talks about his experiences in team formation and collaboration and how empowerment, refinement and facilitation enable the free flow of knowledge and value across team members and how cohesion emerges in collaborative teams.

Claudio Kerber
on Mar 27, 2012
Your Brain on Scrum

Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness are wired into the human brain. Michael de la Maza how the latest neuroscience findings support agile software development and that there are good brain-based reasons why agile is so effective.

Michael de la Maza
on Feb 02, 2012
Agile Adoption – Vital Behaviours and Influence Strategies

Steve is interested in uncovering better ways to deliver successful projects regardless of whether or not those ways are ‘agile’. After reading "Influencer, the Power to Change Anything" he found a set of behaviours and influence strategies that are helpful for giving projects the best chance for success and also for helping teams transition to agile.

Steve Rogalsky
on Dec 01, 2011
Virtual Panel: Specification by Example, Executable Specifications, Scenarios and Feature Injection

In the last couple of years terms like Specification by Example, Executable Specifications and Feature Injection have showed up quite frequently in the community, often in relation to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow. InfoQ have talked to some of the leading experts in this domain about what these practices are and how they relate to BDD.

Jon Arild Tørresdal
on Nov 10, 2011
Design For Hybrid Agile Adoption

Offshore Development is a critical success factor for many organizations as is adopting Agile methodologies. However, these two techniques have never worked well together. Overcoming this challenge, “Design for Hybrid Agile Adoption (DH2A)”, is a methodology defined to successfully execute Agile projects in a distributed and out-sourced environment. This article provides an overview of DH2A.

Upadrista Venkatesh
on Sep 01, 2011
Laurent Bossavit: Agile Ten Years On

Laurent Bossavit discusses the importance of learning from history and reflects on the historical influences that have contributed to emergence of agile practices and techniques. He examines the impact agile approaches are having and the emergence of the new discipline of agile software development, and calls for formulation of a new generation of more inclusive Agile institutions.

Shane Hastie
on Jul 28, 2011
New book - Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide

Ken Howard and Barry Rogers have written a book that focuses on the first value from the Agile Manifesto. They provide advice, tools and techniques to help teams and individuals improve their communications and interpersonal interactions. The book presents a set of tools that work together more effectively. They provide guidelines for a workshop to put the techniques into practice.

Shane Hastie
on Jul 18, 2011
Git, Gerrit Review and Jenkins or Hudson CI Servers

Together, Gerrit and Jenkins/Hudson allow you to propose changes and have those proposals automatically compiled/tested/verified before a human review even starts. This article shows how to install and configure Gerrit and how to hook it up to Jenkins/Hudson to build all proposed changes.

Alex Blewitt
on Jun 10, 2011
Interview: William E. Perry - Author iTeams – Putting the “I” Back Into Team

In his book, iTeams – Putting the “I” Back Into Team, author William E. Perry demolishes the cliché - "There is no ‘I’ in team." As Perry explains, the phrase is nonsense because it is the individual differences in team members that make teams great. In this interview, Ben Linders explores with the author the motivations for writing the book as well as some of the key thoughts.

Ben Linders
on May 23, 2011

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