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Author Q&A with Belinda Waldock on Being Agile in Business
Belinda Waldock is an agile business coach and a professionally qualified Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) coach and mentor. She has drawn on her experience coaching and mentoring organisations in the implementation of agile approaches inside and outside of information technology and written the book “Being Agile in Business”. She spoke to InfoQ about the book
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Toward Agile Architecture: Insights from 15 Years of ATAM Data
The authors have concluded after analyzing 15 years of Architecture Trade-Off Analysis Method (ATAM) data across 31 projects that modifiability, performance, availability, interoperability, and deployability are key quality attributes for Agile practitioners.
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Q&A with Bas Vodde on the LeSS Framework: Principles, Practices and Core Concepts
Bas Vodde and Craig Larman framed and introduced Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), the scaling model. Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is Scrum applied to many teams working together on one product. InfoQ interviewed Bas Vodde to discuss more about LeSS framework.
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Q&A with Larry Maccherone on joining AgileCraft, Large Data Sets and Monte Carlo Forecasting
Larry Maccherone is a researcher who has focused on collecting and presenting real metrics for agile teams and using analytics to help teams get better at forecasting in uncertain environments. He recently joined AgileCraft as their Director of Analytics - he discussed the move, how AgileCraft is designed to gather data from many ALM tools and how analytics can be used effectively.
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Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals - Part 5
In the fifth article in the Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals series Michał Bartyzel explores nonviolent communication and important building and maintaining rapport is for effective communication.
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Q&A and Book Review of Software Development Metrics
The book Software Development Metrics by Dave Nicolette explores how to use metrics to track and guide software development. It explains how different development approaches and process models, like traditional waterfall-based or iterative agile software development, affect the choice and usage of metrics. It describes metrics that can be used for steering work and for managing improvement.
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Agile Open Conferences within Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive has a lot of Agile teams across its 20+ brands and companies. In recent years, it became clear that they needed to bring together Agilists from across the enterprise to connect, share and learn. So they decided to organize their own, company-internal Agile Open conferences. Now approaching their 3rd year, these events have been quite successful and really brought people together.
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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.
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Standish Group 2015 Chaos Report - Q&A with Jennifer Lynch
The 2015 Standish Group Chaos Report has been released which shows some improvement and lots of opportunity for improvement in the software development industry. Jennifer Lynch spoke to InfoQ about the findings and their implications for software development. A significant change in the survey approach this year is the expansion of the definition of success to explore outcomes.
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Q&A with Tom Roden and Ben Williams on Improving Retrospectives
InfoQ interviewed the authors of fifty quick ideas to improve your retrospectives about why they wrote the book and how ideas are described, when you can do retrospectives, what facilitators can do to establish safety, why facilitators should not be the ones who solve problems, celebrating successes, good practices for getting actions done, and the value that teams get from doing retrospectives.
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Build Quality In Book Review and Interview
Book review and interview with Steve Smith and Matthew Skelton, authors of "Build Quality In", a collection of experience reports (including their own) on Continuous Delivery and DevOps initiatives, by authors ranging from in-house technical and process leaders to external consultants implementing technical and organizational improvements.
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Innovation at Telefónica with Lean Startup
Creating digital products is different from building traditional telco products: the uncertainty is much higher, the way of creating value for the customer is totally different and lifecycle is much faster says Susana Jurado Apruzzese. Telefónica adapted Lean Startup to their processes, culture and organization to make it work.