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Can People Trust the Automated Decisions Made by Algorithms?

The use of automated decision making is increasing. These algorithms can produce results that are incomprehensible, or socially undesirable. How can we determine the safety of algorithms in devices if we cannot understand them? Public fears about the inability to foresee adverse consequences has impeded technologies such as nuclear energy and genetically modified crops.

Michael Veale Andrew Burt Michael Stiefel Rebecca Wiliams
on Jun 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Cost of Fear in Organisational Change

In this article Juncu explores the factors which cause fear of change in organisations and what it costs, how to challenge the status quo and provides advice on overcoming some of the limiting factors. She explores four common practices which feel like they reduce risk but actually exacerbate the challenges faced by organisations in the dynamic, fast moving world where adapting to change is vital

Oana Juncu
on Jun 11, 2018
Architecture & Design

Ballerina Tutorial: A Programming Language for Integration

Ballerina is a new programming language and platform whose objective is to make it easy to create resilient services that integrate and orchestrate across distributed endpoints. Ballerina’s design principles focus on baking integration concepts into a language, including a network-aware type system, sequence diagrammatic syntax, concurrency workers, being “DevOps ready”, and environment awareness.

Tyler Jewell
on Jun 06, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy

The book Many Voices, One Song - Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez provides a collection of sociocratic tools and principles and stories about applying sociocracy. It can be used as a reference for implementing sociocracy in organizations to establish self-governance.

Jerry Koch-Gonzalez Ted Rau Ben Linders
on Jun 03, 2018
DevOps

Making Work Visible Book Review and Q&A with Dominica DeGrandis

Book review and Q&A with Dominica DeGrandis on her new book "Making Work Visible". What are time thieves and what can we do about them?

Manuel Pais
on May 31, 2018
Architecture & Design

Ballerina Microservices Programming Language: Introducing the Latest Release and "Ballerina Central"

The tutorial demonstrates Ballerina, a new programming language and platform whose objective is to make it easy to create resilient services that integrate and orchestrate across distributed endpoints. Ballerina uses compile time abstractions for distributed system primitives that enable the compiler to generate artifacts like API gateways for deployment to Docker and Kubernetes.

Tyler Jewell
on May 29, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Lost and Founder

The book Lost and Founder contains startup stories from Rand Fishkin. In the book he describes the ups and downs from starting and managing a company, and shares the lessons that he learned. InfoQ interviewed him about being transparent, minimum viable products and pivoting, raising capital and funding a tech startup, and asked him what he would do differently when starting another company.

Ben Linders
on Apr 29, 2018
Culture & Methods

Decision Making in a Company with No Managers

Self-managed companies are emerging as a viable option for the future of work. The transformation from standard hierarchical organisation to a flat structure is definitely beneficial, but obviously a challenging process. This article explores how SoftwareMill, a Polish software house, did it.

Jan Zborowski
on Apr 07, 2018
Culture & Methods

Holacracy for Humans

Snapper, a New Zealand based transport ticketing service provider, wanted to be more like a city, and less like a bureaucratic corporation. In 2016 they introduced Holacracy, which enables people to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of waiting to be told what to do. They use Holacracy across all areas of the business and this way of working applies to everyone.

Sandy Mamoli
on Mar 03, 2018
Culture & Methods

Distributed Agile Leadership

Even with the best of planning for your distributed Agile team, without good leadership in place, all of that planning can come to naught. With that in mind we look at some leadership trends that are relevant to self-organizing distributed Agile teams. Instead of proposing a new “Distributed Agile Leadership Framework”, our goal here is to inform you of important and relevant trends.

John Okoro
on Feb 25, 2018
Culture & Methods

Growing an Innovative Culture

An innovative culture requires strong leaders who realise that changes in the culture start with themselves. To make innovation happen you need to consider the investment portfolio at enterprise level and focus on customers and the core operations.

Ben Linders
on Feb 17, 2018
Culture & Methods

TalentSumerization – The Employee Experience in Agile Enterprises

Talent, knowledge and leadership are today’s currency for competitiveness. HR teams that begin to think about their roles as creating an employment experience will be on the leading edge of modern workplaces. This article explores how Consumerization of Human Resources” – or “TalentSumerization” – can be used to create a social, mobile, and consumer-style employee experience.

Fabiola Eyholzer
on Jan 24, 2018

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