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Challenges When Implementing Microservices and Why Programming Style Matters
Fred George talked about the Challenges in Implementing MicroServices and The Secret Assumption of Agile at the GOTO Amsterdam 2015 conference. InfoQ interviewed him about how make microservices as small as possible, challenges when implementing microservices and how to deal with them, why programming style matters, and what developers can do to develop their code writing skills.
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The Lego Flow Game
Joe Mcgrath, scrum master and coach in his latest blog explained the Lego Flow Game.
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Experiences from DevOps at Nokia HERE
An interview with Ivan Kusalic, Software/DevOps engineer at Nokia HERE in Berlin, about why they decided to apply DevOps, how DevOps has changed their way of working, which benefits they are getting, and the challenges that they had and how they dealt with them when development and operations became one team. Kusalic also gives some advice for applying DevOps with teams.
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Supporting Practices Beyond Scrum to Become Agile at Organizational Level
Scrum is a simple and lightweight methodology therefore, scrum alone is not enough.
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Agile Fluency Workshop at Agile Australia
James Shore presented a workshop at Agile Australia titled “Bringing Fluency to your Agile teams: Coaching for Best-Fit Agile”. The focus of the workshop was the use of the Agile Fluency model, which he and Diana Larsen have developed, as a tool for coaches to use when choosing the approach to working with teams based on their level of fluency with the agile values, principles and practices
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Adrian Cockcroft on the Challenges of Managing Microservices
Adrian Cockcroft's devopsdays Amsterdam 2015 keynote addressed how CIOs' key goals - align IT with business, develop products faster, avoid security breaches - are attained through the adoption of DevOps practices and Continuous Delivery with containerized microservices. But managing microservices poses new challenges. Cockcroft proposes simulation as a solution to some of those challenges.
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Developments in IT Project Management
The demand for IT project managers is increasing. Agile methodologies support collaboration with distributed teams for creative problem solving. The Internet of Things, cloud, big data, and cyber security will continue to dominate the IT landscape. Project managers have to pioneer IOT initiatives, be prepared for the influx of data and ensure that deliverables from their projects are secure.
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How to Use Agile at Home
Agile is not meant only for software development. People implement Agile practices in their personal lives too. This post talks about implementation of Agile at home.
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Steve Smith Describes at Devoxx UK how Atlassian Does Continuous Delivery
Steve Smith presented at Devoxx UK 2015 how Continuous Delivery is performed within Atlassian. After the talk, we had the chance to discuss further details of his presentation and ask him a few questions.
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Holacracy Approach for an Agile Organization.
Brian Robertson talks about Holacracy approach for an Agile organization.
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Agile Executive Forum Introduction
The Agile Executive Forum runs in August this year, overlapping with the first day of the Agile 2015 conference in Washington DC. InfoQ spoke to the conference co-chair Sanjiv Augustine about the event.
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Scaling Agile at bol.com
InfoQ did an interview with Menno Vis, IT director of bol.com, about the benefits of increasing agility, how bol.com deploys Scrum, using roadmaps with agile, the challenges that have been faced when scaling agile, the main focus area's at bol.com for agile scaling, establishing loosely coupled teams, and the things that bol.com does for their people to have fun while doing their work.
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Why Scrum is Not Enough
When developing large complex systems and dealing with legacy code, organizations need to have systems in place to support integration and delivery. Modularization can help when agile is scaled with multiple teams that are working in parallel. It's not the framework or method that will do the job, but how your people will make it work to solve your problems says Hans Dekkers.
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Deploying Scrum and SAFe at Philips Lighting
InfoQ interviewed Frank Penning, PMO manager from Philips Lighting, about the main challenges that Philips Lighting is facing in product development, why Scrum is not enough, how they apply SAFe, and the benefits that they have gained from deploying agile methods for product development.
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Scrum Masters with the Imposter Syndrome
Geoff Watts, talks about the Imposter Syndrome of Scrum Masters. Impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments.