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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
Culture & Methods

Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report - January 2018

At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics we see as being important to the community at the beginning of 2018. Some new topics have appeared since 2017 and there have been some significant shifts in what matters to individuals, teams and organisations over the last year.

Craig Smith Ben Linders Charles Humble Susan McIntosh Rafiq Gemmail Shane Hastie Rui Miguel Ferreira
on Jan 23, 2018
Culture & Methods

Telenor’s Stars to Space Stations: An Example of Gate Systems Applied to Product Development

When Telenor needed to establish a clearer understanding of how to measure progress for early stage product development, they created a different set of KPIs for early stage products based around learning instead of financials. They studied the product phase gate process used by companies such as Microsoft and IBM to develop one that worked for Telenor to make relevant investments.

Lisa Long
on Jan 19, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Corporate Startup

The book The Corporate Startup by Tendayi Viki, Dan Toma and Esther Gons explores what existing large corporations can do to establish an innovation ecosystem able to continually create new growth avenues. Instead of striving to be a startup, they should find their own way of innovating, use their assets, and learn how to create and use business models that support innovation.

Ben Linders
on Dec 27, 2017
Architecture & Design

Events, Flows and Long-Running Services: A Modern Approach to Workflow Automation

Recent discussions around the microservice architectural style has promoted the idea that “to effectively decouple your services you have to create an event-driven-architecture”. Although events can decrease coupling, we must avoid the mistakes of traditional SOA: centralised control should to be avoided, and workflow engines must be less painful to use and operate.

Bernd Ruecker Martin Schimak
on Dec 21, 2017
Culture & Methods

What Does Company-Wide Agility Imply?

Self-organization, transparency, constant customer focus, and continuous learning: these are the four values that drive company-wide agility. InfoQ interviewed Jutta Eckstein and John Buck about how to apply a combination of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy to support these agile values, and what benefits this approach can bring.

Ben Linders
on Dec 11, 2017
Architecture & Design

What Should Software Engineers Know about GDPR?

EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is moving out of the transition period next summer to become enforceable GDPR strongly emphasizes risk-based thinking; you take every step to mitigate privacy risks until the risks become something you can tolerate. As a software developer, this will affect you. This is what you need to know.

Arto Santala
on Dec 10, 2017