InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Adam Weisbart on Improv, Magic and Fun on Agile Teams
Adam Weisbart talks about using improv and magic to make Agile more fun and shares a bunch of practical tools and resources that should be of interest to anybody leading or coaching an Agile team.
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Dan Greening on Chaos Theory and Agile Base Patterns
Dan Greening talks about agile teams as complex adaptive systems and identifies five "base patterns" which are necessary for sustainable agility in an organization. Three of these are team-level patterns, the other two are organization-level.
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Manny Gonzalez on Joining the Scrum Alliance and Future Directions
MAnny Gonzalez was recently appointed as the CEO of the Scrum Alliance. He discusses the current state of the Scrum Alliance and presents his vision for the organisation in the future, changing the worl of work for the better. He talks about some of the initiatives the Scrum Alliance is undertaking and what they mean for the members of the organisation.
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Jeff Patton on User Story Mapping and Product Management
Jeff Patton talks about his book "User Story Mapping" and the background and approaches to the story mapping process as well as upcoming trends in relation to product management.
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Dominica DeGrandis on Dealing with a World of Uncertainty (Especially in Ops)
Dominica DeGrandis talks about bringing visibility to the workflow, reducing cycle time, setting priorities right, what is real firefighting, and how Kanban and DevOps are the perfect marriage.
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Linda Rising on Visiting Menlo Innovations and Constant Learning
Linda Rising talks about her experiences visiting Menlo Innovations, exploring the reasons why the Joy, Inc culture works and what is special about the environment. She describes the way they do and do not apply practices from agile software development and how they have created a culture of continuous learning.
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Chris Richardson on Functional Programming in Scala and Java, Event Sourcing
Chris Richardson explains the appeal of Scala, functional programming in Java and other languages, the basics of Event Sourcing, and his perspective on the state of the Java ecosystem.
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Michael Bryzek on Handling Microservices in the Real World
Microservices have been a trending topic for some time now and while we talked a lot about concepts in the past there are more and more real-life experiences to draw on now. In this interview, Michael Bryzek, co-founder and former CTO of Gilt, shares some of his experience working with microservices including how we should design our architectures and APIs to avoid ending up in a dependency hell.
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Sally Elatta on the Agility Health Check Tool
Sally Elatta talks about the Agility Health Check tool, with examples of where it has been used, the way teams and organisations can use the information collected and how the tool itself is evolving in response to market demand
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Dana Pylayeva on Agile, Scrum, Lego and Chocolate
Dana Pylayeva talks about the Agile game she designed combining Scrum, Lego and Chocolate. The game helps participants (in particular non-technical types) understand the difficulties and bottlenecks in application delivery and how DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices can help.
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Ahmed Sidky and Shannon Ewan on Designing the ICAgile Pathways
Ahmed Sidky and Shannon Ewan talk about the goals of ICAgile and the design of the learning pathways and the difference between knowledge-based and competency based certification programs. They explore the goal of helping people deepen their Agile knowledge and pursue sustainable agility by scaling people not just processes and structures and discuss how the expert pathways were developed.
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Sanjiv Augustine on Scaling Agile, No-Management and Agile 2015 Executive Forum
Sanjiv Augustine talks about his new book "Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart", reinventing organizations, the implementation of no-management at LitheSpeed and the Agile 2015 Executive Forum.
