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Shifting Modes: Creating a Program to Support Sustained Resilience

The second article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores how organizations can shift to a Learn & Adapt safety mode and compares the traits of an organization that is well poised for successfully persisting this mode shift. This shift will not only make them safer but will also give them a competitive advantage.

Alex Elman
on Jan 11, 2021
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Rise of the Agile Leader

The book The Rise of the Agile Leader by Chuck Mollor is a blueprint for leaders navigating change in the pursuit of success. Mollor shares his story of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-development, while demonstrating a leadership paradigm, a roadmap of what makes a great leader, and what organizations can do to develop great leaders.

Ben Linders Chuck Mollor
on Jan 07, 2021
Web Development

Writing Firebase Apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux Using Electron

Electron-Firebase provides a quickstart framework for building cloud-connected applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux. By integrating Electron and Firebase, just a few configuration settings allow you to include a complete authentication workflow into your app using email/password, phone number, Google, Facebook, or many other identity providers.

David Asher
on Jan 06, 2021
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Responsive Agile Coaching

Niall McShane has written the book Responsive Agile Coaching, aimed at people who are coaching individuals, teams and organisations in new ways of working to help guide others in adapting to changing circumstances and responding to new demands. He presents a model for coaching based on knowing when to tell clients the answer versus when to guide them to find the answer for themselves.

Niall McShane Shane Hastie
on Jan 04, 2021
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Building an SQL Database Audit System Using Kafka, MongoDB and Maxwell's Daemon

In this article, the author discusses the importance of a database audit logging system outside of traditional built-in data replication, using technologies like Kafka, MongoDB, and Maxwell's Daemon.

Vishal Sinha
on Jan 01, 2021
Culture & Methods

Meeting the Challenges of Disrupted Operations: Sustained Adaptability for Organizational Resilience

The first article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience starts by laying a foundation for thinking about organizational resilience. It looks at what organizations can do structurally during surprising and disruptive events to establish conditions that help engineering teams adapt in practice and in real time as disruptive events occur.

Laura Maguire
on Dec 31, 2020
Development

Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future in Conversation with Steve Francia

Go was started more than a decade ago in the Engineering department at Google. It was designed with the purpose of providing an easy-to-learn programming language that would allow to develop Google's systems at the next level. In the past decade, the language became more and more stable, currently being used for implementing some of the most popular tools on the web (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.).

Olimpiu Pop Steve Francia
on Dec 30, 2020
Culture & Methods

Key Sprint Metrics to Increase Team Dependability

What are the questions you should be asking and what behaviours should you be measuring within your Scrum teams in order to improve overall dependability and delivery efficiency? We explore how you can transform your Sprints into the building blocks for success and ensure you can continue to meet (and even surpass) long-term user and business expectations.

Will Lytle
on Dec 30, 2020
Development

InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year

As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.

Leandro Guimarães Arthur Casals Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Johan Janssen Manuel Pais Renato Losio Shane Hastie Steef-Jan Wiggers Thomas Betts
on Dec 28, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Retrospectives Antipatterns

Using the familiar “patterns” approach, the book Retrospectives Antipatterns by Aino Vonge Corry describes unfortunate situations that can sometimes happen in retrospectives. For each situation, described as an antipattern, it also provides solutions for dealing with the situation; this can be a way to solve the problem directly or avoid similar problems in future retrospectives.

Ben Linders Aino Vonge Corry
on Dec 25, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Overcoming Data Scarcity and Privacy Challenges with Synthetic Data

In this article, the author discusses the importance of using synthetic data in data analytics projects, especially in financial institutions, to solve the problems of data scarcity and more importantly data privacy.

Dawn Li
on Dec 25, 2020
Culture & Methods

Changes in the 2020 Scrum Guide: Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

The Scrum Guide has been updated to make it less prescriptive, using simpler language to address a wider audience. These changes have been done to make Scrum a “lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems”. An interview with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about the changes to the guide.

Ben Linders Ken Schwaber Jeff Sutherland
on Dec 24, 2020