InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Interview with Erin Schnabel on the Liberty Profile
Erin Schnabel, developer lead of the WebSphere Liberty Profile, spoke to Alex Blewitt at QCon New York about the modular architecture behind the Liberty Profile, and what benefits this has brought both to end users and the developer team. She also highlighted how the the transition from monolithic to modular started with the configuration and broke down dependencies between services.
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Ardita Karaj on Helping Product Owners and Teams See the Value
Ardita Karaj joins us at the Agile 2014 conference to discuss how Product Owners and Teams can work together to use value to prioritize the work they do.
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Larry Maccherone on Cognitive Bias, Decision Making and Metrics
In this interview Larry Maccherone explores the various ways in which we can use metrics to overcome cognitive bias and make good decisions by explaining how they can be used to support exploration of alternatives, facilitate effective communication with management and give confidence of direction that is much more in line with our values
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Phil Brock & Rebecca Parsons on the State of the Agile Alliance
Rebecca Parsons and Phil Brock talk about the growth of the Agile Alliance, internationalization and the collection of valuable content on the Agile Alliance website
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Aish Fenton on Machine Learning at Netflix
Aish Fenton explains how machine learning is used at Netflix for recommendations but also for many more applications.
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Dianne Marsh on Engineering Velocity at Netflix
Dianne Marsh explains Netflix' approach to managing development teams, how to avoid over-managing them, fostering responsibility and engineering velocity.
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Jeff Patton on learning the ‘game’ of Agility and building the right thing
In this interview Jeff Patton contemplates ‘building the right thing’ while emphasising the importance of truly understanding the core elements of Agile. He explores differentiating between learning practices, best practices, rules and strategies and highlights how utilising ‘game space thinking’ encourages a more effective skills-based team approach to agility.
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Elisabeth Hendrickson on Building Quality In
Elisabeth Hendrickson discusses her move from consulting to take on the role of Director of Quality Engineering for Pivotal Labs, how important engineering technical practices are to building quality in from the ground up and how scaling agile across many teams requires a structure that supports self-organization within organizational constraints.
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Lynne Cazaly on Visual Agility and Thought Leadership
Lynne Cazaly joins us to discuss how adding visuals to your facilitation toolbox can help your listening and how thought leadership can help you stand out in a crowd.
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Simon Bennett discusses Contracts, Scaling and Agility
Simon Bennett emphasizes the primary differences in approach between ‘Contracting for Agile’ and ‘Agile Contracting’, expanding the discussion into what he sees as the key distinctions of ‘Agile at Scale’ and ‘Scaling Agile’ by using examples that highlight the importance of working with ‘now’
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Bjarte Bogsnes on Beyond Budgeting at Agile 2014
Bjarte Bogsnes discusses Beyond Budgeting and why those in the Agile community should be paying attention to it.
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Carol McEwan on the State of the Scrum Alliance
Carol talks about the growth of the Scrum Alliance to over 325000 members, the role of the Scrum Master, Scrum Gatherings around the world and taking Scrum beyond Software Development.
