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Agile for Marketing and Communication
Agile Marketing and Communication (MarCom) bridge the IT and communication disciplines. Communication professionals started to apply agile in their projects, which has led to better collaboration and increased productivity and creativity. Professionals take on tasks outside their usual responsibilities and duties, and it's the team that decides how the work is prioritized and done.
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Events, Flows and Long-Running Services: A Modern Approach to Workflow Automation
Recent discussions around the microservice architectural style has promoted the idea that “to effectively decouple your services you have to create an event-driven-architecture”. Although events can decrease coupling, we must avoid the mistakes of traditional SOA: centralised control should to be avoided, and workflow engines must be less painful to use and operate.
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Frugal Innovation: Doing More with Less
Frugal innovation provides ways to do more and better with less. It helps us to solve problems with limited resources in a sustainable way and to address inequality and empower billions of people at the bottom of the pyramid. Agile and frugal support each other; both aim to solve the problem at hand and nothing more, getting products into the hands of the users early and learning from that use.
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Your Top Five Challenges Moving in to the IoT Space
Those who have been involved in IoT projects have come to realize that there is a big gap between what customers need and what these vendors provide. Contributor Mikael Hakansson looks at five critical areas that require focus to ensure IoT success. These include business ownership, team skillsets, device onboarding, ability to handle change, and comprehensive testing.
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Q&A on the Book "Agile People"
Pia-Maria Thorén has written a book titled Agile People, in which she challenges the role of Human Resources in organisations, identifies where the current approaches are not working and why they need to change to support modern organisational thinking.
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Approximate Queries on WSO2 Stream Processor: Use of Approximation Algorithms in an Applied Setting
In this article, we describe an example real world application of API monitoring which benefits from using approximate stream processing. We developed the application on top of WSO2 Stream Processor as Siddhi extension. Siddhi is the complex event processing library which acts as the event processing engine of WSO2 Stream Processor.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2017
The eleventh annual QCon San Francisco was the biggest yet, bringing together over 1,800 team leads, architects, project managers, and engineering directors.
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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.
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Mobile Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin
Xamarin is becoming a popular tool for mobile app development. There are a number of very good reasons for this as well as a few drawbacks that make it unsuitable for certain kinds of apps. This article will dwell upon them as well as weigh up the pros and cons of cross-platform versus native development.
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What Does Company-Wide Agility Imply?
Self-organization, transparency, constant customer focus, and continuous learning: these are the four values that drive company-wide agility. InfoQ interviewed Jutta Eckstein and John Buck about how to apply a combination of Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy to support these agile values, and what benefits this approach can bring.
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What Should Software Engineers Know about GDPR?
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is moving out of the transition period next summer to become enforceable GDPR strongly emphasizes risk-based thinking; you take every step to mitigate privacy risks until the risks become something you can tolerate. As a software developer, this will affect you. This is what you need to know.
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Relearning to Learn
For my 30 plus years in tech, I've been reading and listening to tech mostly wrong. After in depth investigation into learning strategies, I've restructured my knowledge acquisition process. Find out how I've taken control of my learning queue, how I now perform active reading while taking creative notes, and hear how to use reflection and quizzing to lock knowledge in.