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Q&A on the Book Agile Management

The book Agile Management by Mike Hoogveld explores how the agile principles and values can be implemented in an agile way to improve the flexibility and entrepreneurship within organizations. It shows how the “voice of the customer” should be the starting point for designing the products, services, channels and processes you offer to your customers.

Ben Linders
on Apr 14, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agile Development & Remote Teams - Six Powerful Productivity Hacks You Should Know

With organizations around the globe trying to go lean, there is a definite rise in distributed and agile work environments today. This article provides advice on overcoming the inherent challenges of this combination. An approach that, rather than fueling another set of conflicts, helps remote teams sort out their priorities and be more productive.

Tanya Kumari
on Apr 11, 2018
Architecture & Design

Polyglot Persistence Powering Microservices

At Netflix, the cloud database engineering team is responsible for providing several flavors of data persistence as a service to microservice development teams. Roopa Tangirala explained how her team has created self-service tools that help developers easily implement the appropriate data store for each project's needs.

Thomas Betts Roopa Tangirala
on Apr 10, 2018
Culture & Methods

Architecturally Aligned Testing

Testing microservices should not be done in a separate test phase, by a dedicated test team, but instead collaboratively by cross-functional teams. There is a shift left in testing to ensure that teams stay autonomous and a shift right in testing towards exploration and experimentation. Continuous Testing and a culture of experimentation are enablers to release microservices fast and reliably.

Stefan Friese
on Apr 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

Decision Making in a Company with No Managers

Self-managed companies are emerging as a viable option for the future of work. The transformation from standard hierarchical organisation to a flat structure is definitely beneficial, but obviously a challenging process. This article explores how SoftwareMill, a Polish software house, did it.

Jan Zborowski
on Apr 07, 2018
Culture & Methods

Understanding the Nuances of Servant Leadership

Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. In an organization every team and every individual should answer the questions: Why am I doing what I am doing? What is the added value my role contributes in this space? Alignment around purpose enables better outcome.

Vikram Raghuram
on Apr 06, 2018
Development

Patterns for Microservice Developer Workflows and Deployment: Q&A with Rafael Schloming

Drawing on his experience with developing a microservices application at Datawire in 2013, Rafael Schloming argues that one of the most important — although often ignored — questions a development lead should ask is "How do I break up my monolithic process?" as the development process is critical to establishing and maintaining velocity.

Daniel Bryant
on Apr 05, 2018
Development

Mastering Blockchain: Book Review and Author Q&A

Blockchain was invented in 2008 for Bitcoin to solve the main issue with digital currencies, i.e., the possibility that a token be spent more than once by duplicating it. Packt Publishing Mastering Blockchain by Imran Bashir aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Blockchain, a technology that is claimed to be able to revolutionise our society and impact every industry.

Sergio De Simone
on Apr 03, 2018
DevOps

Six Tips for Running Scalable Workloads on Kubernetes

Tips to ensure Kubernetes knows what is happening with your deployment: where best to schedule it, when is it ready to serve requests and ensuring work is spread across as many nodes as possible.

Joel Speed
on Mar 30, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy

In the book Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy, Jutta Eckstein and John Buck combined and integrated principles and practices from general streams of development and created a multi-disciplinary approach for company-wide agile adoption.

Ben Linders
on Mar 29, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Age of Agile

The book The Age of Agile by Steve Denning defines the goals, values, principles, and techniques for Agile management together with stories about how large organizations are applying this to deliver value on a large scale.

Ben Linders
on Mar 26, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Power of Doubt in Software Testing

Being skeptical of ourselves and of what the majority believes keeps us on our toes and forces our mind to work harder. Doubting our own - and other people's - feelings of certainty is a healthy practice that helps us solve problems and avoid bigger problems in the longer run, and it can make us better testers.

Ben Linders
on Mar 25, 2018