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Q&A on the Book Agile Engagement

In the book Agile Engagement, Santiago Jaramillo and Todd Richardson explore the reasons why employees can be disengaged and provide solutions for measuring and driving engagement in organizations. InfoQ interviewed them about the factors that influence the performance of teams and how to measure agile engagement to create an engaging workplace culture.

Ben Linders
on Mar 10, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Triangle of Self Organization

Self-organization is a modern management tool that replaces command & control as a method of creating teams and guiding them to deliver desired outcomes. The Triangle of Self Organization identifies three essential components needed to guide this process – goal, rules & tension - and shows how to choose them consciously to successfully use self-organization as a management tool.

Andy Brandt
on Mar 06, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Great ScrumMaster

In The Great ScrumMaster Zuzana Šochová explores the ScrumMaster role and provides solutions for dealing with everyday and difficult situations. She describes the #ScrumMasterWay, a concept which defines three levels of operation of ScrumMasters.

Ben Linders
on Feb 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

Inclusive Collaboration and the Silence Experiment

With highly collaborative approaches becoming the norm in the software industry, it is time to re-consider collaboration and provide workplaces and practices that embrace all kinds of thinkers. This article introduces Inclusive Collaboration and describes the Silence Experiment to help teams consider different aspects of collaboration and work more effectively with all types of minds.

Sallyann Freudenberg
on Nov 14, 2016
Architecture & Design

Agile Sailors - A Journey from a Monolithic Approach to Microservices

Over the last couple of years eSailors IT solutions has implemented big technological and organisational changes: from functional silos to cross-functional teams, from a work flow that looked like an assembly line to dynamic loops, from a monolithic platform to microservices, from hierarchical command-and-control to leadership as a team sport. This article provides a summary of their journey.

Hans Gruber Michael Gruczel Sigi Kaltenecker
on Nov 11, 2016
Culture & Methods

Internal Tech Conferences - How and Why

Software engineering today is every bit as much about the people as it is about technology - empowered teams don’t appear overnight. We need to oil the wheels of collaboration so they roll smoothly. Here, Matthew Skelton and Victoria Morgan-Smith discuss how to use internal conferences to boost your organisation’s social capital, the currency by which relationships flourish and businesses thrive.

Matthew Skelton Victoria Morgan-Smith
on Oct 10, 2016
Culture & Methods

Communities of Practice: The Missing Piece of Your Agile Organisation

Communities of practice bring together people who share areas of interest or concerns. They have specific applications in agile organisations: scaling agile development and allowing individuals to connect with others who share similar concerns. Communities of practice bring people together to regain the benefits of regular contact while keeping the value of multidisciplinary agile teams.

Emily Webber
on Sep 14, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A and Book Review on Liftoff, Second Edition

The book Liftoff, Second Edition by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies, provides practices and insights for chartering teams by understanding their needs, building trust, and defining how they will interact in the team and align with other parts of the organization. It's a book for Agile coaches, Scrum masters or agile product and project managers to help teams to understand the why behind the work.

Ben Linders
on Sep 10, 2016
Culture & Methods

Why Agile Is Critical for Attracting Millennial Engineers

More and more companies are realizing that having an Agile organization is critical to attracting and retaining the latest generation of millennial engineers. Millennials demand the context, flat organization/decentralized power and emphasis on collaboration that Agile offers – and companies of all sizes and verticals are responding.

Zubin Irani
on Aug 30, 2016
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Christine Doig on Data Science as a Team Discipline

Christine Doig spoke at this year's OSCON Conference about data science as a team discipline and how to navigate the data science Python ecosystem. InfoQ spoke with Christine about challenges data science teams need to address to be more effective.

Srini Penchikala
on Aug 26, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Jurgen Appelo on Managing for Happiness

The book Managing for Happiness by Jurgen Appelo provides practices, games and tools to manage organizations and make work fun. It contains tips and suggestions for applying the practices to achieve organizational greatness and maximize learning in organizations.

Ben Linders
on Jul 20, 2016
DevOps

The Things I Learnt about DevOps When My Car Was Engulfed by Flames

Framed in the story of the author's car catching fire, this article describes five ways of thinking to help understand DevOps culture, and behaviours necessary to create an effective DevOps team. A central theme is that DevOps challenges us to think differently about our approach to collaboration and learning, in ways often contrary to our instincts and how we’ve been encouraged to behave before.

John Clapham
on Jul 07, 2016