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Java InfoQ Trends Report—September 2020

This article provides a summary of how the InfoQ editorial team currently sees the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java space in 2020. We focus on Java the language, as well as related languages like Kotlin and Scala, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and Java-based frameworks and utilities.

Ben Evans Uday Tatiraju Erik Costlow Michael Redlich
on Sep 29, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Fail to Learn

The book Fail to Learn by Scott Provence explores how we can learn from failure and how trainers and course designers can use gamification to foster failure and learning in their educational environments. When playing games it's ok to try out something, lose the game, learn from it, and restart and try something else.

Ben Linders Scott Provence
on Sep 21, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Art of Leadership

In the book The Art of Leadership, Michael Lopp shares stories of leadership habits and practices. Examples include reading the room, getting feedback, delegation, giving compliments, understanding the culture, and being kind. In the book Lopp describes how he practiced and refined these leadership habits over the years and what he has learned from doing so.

Ben Linders Michael Lopp
on Sep 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Untapped Agility

The book Untapped Agility by Jesse Fewell explains what holds organizations back in increasing their agility. It describes barriers that may appear during an agile transformation and provides “rebound” moves for unblocking the transformation and moving forward. This recurring pattern of Boost, then Barrier, then Rebound both encourages and enables frustrated agile champions.

Ben Linders Jesse Fewell
on Sep 10, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Retrospectives for Everyone

The book Retrospectives for Everyone by Madhavi Ledalla explains how metaphors can be used to foster reflection and result in actions in agile retrospectives. The book provides examples of metaphors that can for instance be used to nurture teamwork, manage change, focus on objectives and personal reflection, and also provides recommendations for facilitating retrospectives beyond a single team.

Ben Linders Madhavi Ledalla
on Aug 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Techlash

The book Techlash by Ian Mitroff and Rune Storesund explains why companies need to become socially responsible by considering the potential negative outcomes of technology. It explains how proactive crisis management can help prevent a crisis by the early detection and correction of deviations from expected conditions.

Ben Linders Ian Mitroff Rune Storesund
on Aug 26, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book How to Be an Inclusive Leader

The book How to Be an Inclusive Leader by Jennifer Brown provides a step-by-step guide to becoming an advocate for inclusion. It explains what leaders can do to increase inclusiveness in the workplace, describes the characteristics of inclusive leaders, explores why inclusion matters and how people cover, and provides the inclusive leader continuum.

Jennifer Brown Ben Linders
on Aug 18, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Improv Mindset

The book The Improv Mindset by Bruce and Gail Montgomery provides the framework, activities, case stories, and data to help you apply improv in a business context. They show how you can deal with uncertainty by changing how your brain responds to change, as well as provide methods to systematically improve individual, team, and organization performance by leveraging the core principles of improv.

Ben Linders Bruce Montgomery Gail Montgomery
on Aug 11, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Further, Faster

Businesses that thrive over the long term can focus on just a few things that truly matter to their teams and core customers. The book Further, Faster by Bill Flynn provides ideas for business leaders to build teams, create a strategy to stay close to customers, and manage a company’s growth with cash as the primary metric.

Ben Linders Bill Flynn
on Aug 08, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Unleashed

The book Unleashed - The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss explores how leaders can become more effective in empowering their people. It shows how they can combine trust, love, and belonging to create spaces where people excel.

Ben Linders Frances Frei Anne Morriss
on Jul 27, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Leadership Book Review and Interview

Data Leadership book, authored by Anthony Algmin, covers the data leadership topic and how data leaders should manage and govern the data management programs in their organizations. Data Leadership is how organizations choose to apply their energy and resources toward creating data capabilities to influence their business.

Srini Penchikala Anthony Algmin
on Jul 25, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Think for Yourself

The book Think for Yourself by Vikram Mansharamani provides a balanced approach to working with experts to help us deal with uncertainty. Instead of outsourcing our thinking to experts, we should tap into appropriate expertise when needed. Multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches can be used to see the whole picture and stay on top of things.

Ben Linders Vikram Mansharamani
on Jul 21, 2020