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The Data Science Mindset: Six Principles to Build Healthy Data-Driven Organizations

In this article, business and technical leaders will learn methods to assess whether their organization is data-driven and benchmark its data science maturity. They will learn how to use the Healthy Data Science Organization Framework to nurture a data science mindset within the organization.

Francesca Lazzeri
on May 01, 2019
Culture & Methods

Measuring Tech Performance: You’re Probably Doing It Wrong

We try our best to measure our performance, and along the way identify just the right OKRs and KPIs and ABCs. There’s no One True Metric That Matters, but there are some useful guidelines and some all-too-commonly made mistakes. Use measures that focus on outcomes, not output, and measures that optimize for global or team outcomes, not local or individual outcomes.

Dr Nicole Forsgren PhD
on Jul 22, 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
Culture & Methods

How to Boost Your Skills to Become a Better Developer

Katas are great for learning new skills or to improve existing ones but don't address the intensity we face at work when there is a raging fire such as a deadline, release date, fixing a bug in huge legacy code, etc. This article covers the skills of good developers and highlights changing your training approach to improve your skills for high-intensity and challenging environments.

Boris Gonnot Houssam Fakih
on Nov 03, 2016
DevOps

Interview series: DevOps Enterprise Adoption

InfoQ ran a series of interviews during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, focusing on the DevOps transformations that many corporations are currently undertaking to improve not only their productivity and time to market, but also to increase engagement and collaboration between people and teams.

Manuel Pais
on Dec 16, 2015
Culture & Methods

Peer Feedback Loops: Why Metrics and Meetings Are Not Enough

This is the first in a series of articles that will show how to build peer feedback loops, an effective means to encourage a culture of continuous improvement. Starting with a problem statement and some background on feedback, followed by explaining why metrics and meetings are not enough, the article describes the first three methods on how to design and facilitate peer feedback sessions.

Siegfried Kaltenecker
on Oct 07, 2015
DevOps

DevOps & Product Teams - Win or Fail?

Peter Neumark found a new world when he moved from a DevOps infrastructure team to a Lean product team.How to experiment frequently while keeping operational performance? Platform teams to the rescue!

Peter Neumark
on Jun 29, 2015
Q&A on Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests

An interview with Gojko Adzic, David Evans and Tom Roden on why they wrote this book, how quantifying quality can support testing, balancing trust levels when testing large and complex systems, why automating manual tests is almost always a bad idea, on using production metrics in testing, how to reduce or prevent duplication in test code, and on upcoming books in the fifty quick ideas series.

Ben Linders
on Jun 23, 2015
Probabilistic Project Planning Using Little’s Law

When working on projects, it is most of the time necessary to forecast the project delivery time up front. Little’s Law can help any team that uses user stories for planning and tracking project execution no matter what development process it uses. We use a project buffer to manage the inherent uncertainty associated with planning and executing a fixed-bid project and protect its delivery date.

Dimitar Bakardzhiev
on Jun 21, 2015
Culture & Methods

How a Flow Manager Helps Teams Deliver, Fast and Smoothly

As agile software delivery practices and management evolve, so, too, do the roles. kanban has introduced the idea of managing flow, one of the method’s core practices. With talented developers, quality advocates and user-experience designers, teams know how to deliver valuable software. But as we improve service delivery using kanban, who manages flow?

Matthew Philip
on Jun 03, 2015
Interview and Book Review: Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners

"Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners" by Ilan Goldstein is a must read book that delivers real world examples on how to effectively implement and embed Agile in your team or organisation.

Craig Smith
on Nov 17, 2014
The Original Sin of Software Metrics

This article argues it is inherently wrong to set up software metrics to try and 'improve' the software development process. Using a fictitious scenario, this article explains the reasons why it is wrong, the damages it may cause, and offers some alternatives for managing software development.

Chen Ping
on Jun 05, 2014