InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Camille Fournier on the Software and Data Science Behind Rent the Runway
Camille Fournier explains how Rent the Runway uses software and data science to handle a massive shipping and warehouse operation, modelling inventory life cycles, optimising shipping and much more.
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Interview with John Arthorne on the Orion Project
Recorded at EclipseCon NA 2015, John Arthorne talks to Alex Blewitt about the Orion project, and how it can be used to create JavaScript based code as well as commit it to Git entirely within a web browser, as well as how Orion fits in with the newly created top level Cloud project.
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Enyo Kumahor on Bringing Frugal Innovation Out of Africa
Enyo Kumahor talks about how Cobat Partners helps companies in Africa to leverage technology, applying the ideas of frugal innovation and pragmatism to delivering products which make a difference to the daily lives of people in Africa, despite the constraints they must work within. She discusses how these ideas apply beyond Africa, and how IT professionals around the world can help.
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Portia Tung on Hope as the Driver for Change and Improvement
Portia Tung works as an agile coach and shares some experience on making teams out of individuals and motivating those teams to follow a vision or reach a goal. One technique to reach a goal is to use hope as the combination of will-power and way-power. How much power do I have to follow my goals and how much creativity do I have to overcome any obstacles on my way?
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Matthias Sohn on the State of the Eclipse Git Tooling
Recorded at EclipseCon NA 2015, Matthias Sohn talks to Alex Blewitt on the state of the Eclipse Git tooling as well as new enhancements and the work that has been done to make it faster for Eclipse Mars, such as the migration to Java 7 and the additional hooks and interactive rebase support.
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Helen Walton and Pete Burden on Creating the Culture You Want
At QCon London Helen Walton and Pete Burden discussed what it takes to design a collaborative, agile supporting culture in an organisation, if it is possible for large organisations to actually change and what is needed to enable that change. The spoke about the Spark the Change conference and how it is a showcase of organisations that are actually working in new ways.
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Paul Fremantle on Security in Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is becoming a part of our lives right now - we are measuring health, we are connecting to our cars, we can open our front door while being half-way around the globe. And while we can benefit from all the sensors and actors around us, there is also a big risk of losing control and data. Paul Fremantle shares some knowledge on potential threads and what we can do about them.
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Interview with Doug Schaefer on the State of the CDT
Recorded at EclipseCon NA 2015, Doug Schaefer talks to Alex Blewitt about the state of the CDT, including recent advancements into multicore debugging and visualisation as well as programming the Arduino directly. Doug also describes the work done on Wascana to make CDT development on Windows easier as well as the launch bar in Eclipse Mars to help run applications quickly.
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Jenni Jepsen on the Neuroscience Behind Why Agile Works
Jenni explores the neuroscience which shows why agile works, how it links to the factors that motivate people (using the SCARF model) and how leadership at every level and shows how empowering people is necessary for organisational success.
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The Role of Developer Relations in the Enterprise
Adam Seligman, VP of Developer Relations at Salesforce talks to Rags Srinivas about how the success of a platform is tied to a strong Developer Relations program. He also talks about the essential ingredients of a strong program, how to adapt, how to nurture it and how it's a two way conversation.
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Frank Tino Talks About His Experience Adopting OpenSpace Agility
Frank Tino is an executive at a large software company who brought Agile to his organization using an invitational approach, instead of imposing practices on teams. He used a method called OpenSpace Agility to bring an entire enterprise into the process of experimenting with Agile principles and practices, in service to getting a rapid and lasting Agile adoption at scale.
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Ben Linders on Retrospectives and Helping Teams Improve
Ben talks about the value of retrospectives as a technique for teams to improve their processes and achieve better outcomes through continuous improvement and ongoing learning. He says that management support is needed to enable change to be effective. He emphasizes the importance of technical as well as social practices for delivery of valuable software.
