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Q&A on the Book The Professional Product Owner

The book The Professional Product Owner explains what Product Owners can do to become real entrepreneurs who initiate and drive products, and what teams can do to release frequently. It provides ideas and personal anecdotes for effectively applying the Scrum Product Owner role and activities.

Ben Linders Ralph Jocham Don McGreal
on Jul 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Agile Developer's Handbook

The book The Agile Developer’s Handbook by Paul Flewelling provides the fundamentals of agile and explores intermediate and advanced topics like metrics for delivery, technical practices, delivering value, team dynamics, building quality in, and becoming an agile organization.

Ben Linders Paul Flewelling Rafiq Gemmail
on Jun 08, 2018
DevOps

Q&A on the Book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performance Technology Organizations

The book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performance Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, explores the factors that impact software delivery performance and describes capabilities and practices that help to achieve higher levels of throughput, stability, and quality.

Ben Linders Jez Humble Dr. Nicole Forsgren
on Jun 07, 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

Kanban Step-by-Step Guide: from 3-Columns to Flexible Board Design

Implementing Kanban seems rather simple, but making the most of the method is possible only for those willing to experiment with their workflow and walk the extra mile of reflecting the test results into the actual steps. See the most common stages of Kanban implementation and learn how to advance your workflow visualization and control as you increase your proficiency with the method.

Alex Novkov
on May 16, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Kanban Maturity Model: Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations

The book Kanban Maturity Model by David Anderson and Teodora Bozheva provides a model that organizations can use to assess their maturity and define a roadmap to improve business agility using Kanban practices and values. It's a body of knowledge for coaches and organizations on sustainable change, cultures of continuous improvement, unity around a shared purpose, and improved business outcome.

Ben Linders
on Apr 26, 2018
DevOps

Why and How Database Changes Should Be Included in the Deployment Pipeline

Eduardo Piairo on why databases and applications should coexist in the same deployment pipeline and different scenarios and steps to achieve it.

Eduardo Piairo
on Jan 30, 2018
DevOps

How to be Confident That Your Microservices Can Still Communicate in Production with Pact and Docker

Consumer-driven contracts enable our teams at Rightmove to work independently, and be confident that their changes won’t break other services when deploying their own. It also improves communication between teams, and helps to get developers thinking about API design early on.

Harry Winser
on Dec 29, 2017
DevOps

Q&A with Eberhard Wolff On the Book “A Practical Guide to Continuous Delivery”

Eberhard Wolff speaks with InfoQ about his work "Continuous Delivery: A Practical Guide", where we detail some of the major concepts behind successful CD adoption and the ripple-effect it can have on developer productivity and quality of service.

Dylan Raithel
on Dec 14, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban

The book Practical Kanban provides solutions for typical problems that continually occur within Kanban implementations. It explains how you can create a Kanban system for the entire value creation chain to coordinate the work of teams.

Ben Linders Klaus Leopold
on Nov 11, 2017
Culture & Methods

Customize Your Agile Approach: Select Your Agile Approach That Fits Your Context

This is the first in a series of articles that will help you think about how you might want to customize your agile approach for your context. This article explores how to make agile approaches work for you: your work, your team, and your organization. It's about understanding the difference between iteration, flow, and cadence and when you might consider each to customize your agile approach.

Johanna Rothman
on Oct 22, 2017
DevOps

A 4-Step Guide to Building Continuous Security into Container Deployment

Containers face security risks at every stage, from building to shipping to the run-time production phases. Securing them requires a layered strategy throughout the stack and the deployment process.

Fei Huang
on Sep 30, 2017