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Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams

Continous feedback is important in helping team members course correct and align themselves to the larger goals of an agile team. It fosters a healthy environment of openness and honest feedback among team members which is critical for an Agile team to learn and adapt quickly to perform at their best potential. Building a great feedback culture is key to building successful self organised teams.

Anand Vishwanath
on Jul 31, 2012
Culture & Methods

My Experience as a QA in Scrum

The QA role in Scrum is much more than just writing test cases and reporting bugs. In this article, Priyanka Hasija shares her experiences and the valuable lessons learned over the past 2 years while serving as a QA analyst on a Scrum team. She explains how QAs not only perform agile tests but also fill many other roles and responsibilities, earning them a place of importance on the team.

Priyanka Hasija
on Jul 17, 2012
Virtual Panel: Code-to-Test Ratios, TDD and BDD

In the last couple of months several online discussions took place about test first or test last, code-to-test ratios or whether BDD is really just TDD. InfoQ asked the opinion of BDD and TDD experts.

Manuel Pais
on Jul 13, 2012
Kanban for Skeptics

As a change agent, you constantly need to reassure people that the path we follow is worthwhile traveling. Kanban raises much harder questions on a management and leadership level. This article summarises the most common arguments raised against Kanban and discusses how to tackle them, with links to a free e-book that Nick wrote.

Nick Oostvogels
on Jul 02, 2012
Lessons From A DevOps Journey

Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development for over six years and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. He recently shared his experiences in a talk at the Agile Development Practices West conference entitled "Lessons From A DevOps Journey". InfoQ caught up with Matt prior to the conference to find out more about his experiences in DevOps.

Craig Smith
on Jun 27, 2012
Culture & Methods

An Interview with Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks CTO

Dr Rebecca Parsons is the Chief Technology Officer for Thoughtworks, and a Director of the Agile Alliance. At the Agile Australia conference in Melbourne she discussed the trends in database technology around NoSQL databases, the linking of continuous design with continuous delivery and the impact of the mainstream adoption of agile practices on the Agile Alliance.

Shane Hastie
on Jun 19, 2012
Managing Security Requirements in Agile Projects

Managing security requirements from early phases of software development is critical. Most security requirements fall under the scope of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs). In this article, author Rohit Sethi discusses how to map NFRs to feature-driven user stories and also how to make security requirements more visible to the stakeholders.

Rohit Sethi
on Jun 04, 2012
Interview with Simon Baker, Author of No Bull

InfoQ has interviewed Simon Baker, cofounder of Energized Work and the 2009 recipient of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award, author of the "No bull" publication on the past 12 years of Agile.

Marta Jasinska
on May 28, 2012
Swarming Across Distance

"Swarming" is a technique whereby many members of a team work together to deliver a User Story, taking advantage of the skills of many team members working together at the same time. It is recognised as a powerful approach to delivering high quality stories quickly. Johanna addresses how to achieve the same results when your team is geographically distributed?

Johanna Rothman
on May 16, 2012
Net-Map - A Toolkit to Understand and Visualise Stakeholder Influence

Net-Map is a tool developed by Eva Schiffer that allows you through interviews to visualise and analyse how different people and groups influence a particular situation. It is of interest to Agile teams as it can help you understand who your stakeholders are, how they are connected and the level of influence they have. InfoQ recently caught up with Eva and asked her a few questions.

Craig Smith
on May 01, 2012
Thoughts on Test Automation in Agile

Rajneesh Namta shares the lessons he’s learned while automating software tests on a recent Agile project. The techniques he recommends illustrate how the Agile principles we follow when building software apply equally as well to building an automated regression test suite: start small, build iteratively and incrementally, prioritize, focus on value, work transparently, respond quickly to change.

Rajneesh Namta
on Feb 21, 2012
Your Brain on Scrum

Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness are wired into the human brain. Michael de la Maza how the latest neuroscience findings support agile software development and that there are good brain-based reasons why agile is so effective.

Michael de la Maza
on Feb 02, 2012