InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 25, 2021

An agile maturity assessment can help teams come to a common understanding of what agile maturity looks like and what steps they can take to get there.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article presents "self-management" as a possibility to natively support agility to plant seeds and let both institutions and people thrive and benefit from it.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 26, 2021

In this article in a series on how ‘debt’ can be used to guide an agile journey, we will provide two examples of smells that are related to organizational debt, explain the symptoms, the impact on the business and in our organization, outline the experiments (countermeasures) that we have introduced in an effort to try to remove the smell, and provide (..)

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this article, we will present our approach for analysing agile systems as networks of queues and how we have used it to analyse 926 projects in the Public Jira Dataset. We explain how you can measure the Stability Metric (SM) for your queues. Finally, we will present our planned next phase of research.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 7, 2021

To promote DevOps and Agile process improvement a meaningful set of metrics should be tracked. In this article we will discuss which metrics are appropriate based on the stage of the culture change.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 31, 2021

Inspecting and adapting are fundamentals in agile practices. In this article, we invite you to dip your toe into the deep waters of the internal inspect & adapt mechanisms. This article can be summarised in four words: Think. Yet, there are wide interpretations of how either is done well.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This article puts the usage of Agile Games into a broader business context and introduces the steps needed to make any game a verifiable contribution to a given business objective. As “business” is a wide area of topics to be addressed, the article focuses on accessing Agile Games as a tool used within transformation and change.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 10, 2021

Corporate agile often represents an improvement over what went before but falls short on delivering the high performance management want and quality engineering environment developers dream of. Could OKRs - objectives and key results - reawaken the radical side of agile? The backlog becomes tyranny.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Companies look at agile coaches as agile experts to guide teams through agile working. Perhaps they should be engaging agile guides instead. Calling out Agile Guide as a distinct role when moving into uncharted territory can be especially effective and allows true coaches to maximise their effectiveness too.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 5, 2022

In the DACH region, a community of transformation leaders from about 30 companies started “DACH30” sessions where they share experiences and insights from their efforts to help their companies become more agile. By Hendrik Esser, Andrea Maier.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2023

It is time to consider how it affects working in an agile tech environment. Its implications are so profound they radiate far beyond the field of psychology. Topics such as trauma-informed law, volleyball coaching, legal counseling, education, and social activism have arisen. By Anton Skornyakov

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 21, 2021

This article gives you a sneak peek into the adoption of Agile methodology at Red Hat. It shows how they have split the existing large subsystem team into smaller durable Scrum teams. Small teams scale well.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 26, 2019

Agility as way of being for teams and organizations is crossing a critical juncture. In a very unique state of affairs, Agile is being adopted by organizations in various domains whilst many Agilists are expressing concerns that Agile has field.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 17, 2020

To be agile is to adapt to today's market. To mix the power of the data and the importance of people to offer business intelligence is a key point nowadays. The result is not only the most imporant thing, the way you do it more important. By Alejandro Ruiz.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 18, 2021

advice for you to be inspired.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Agility can become part of a scientific theory of adaptation. This article describes the ingredients of an agile theory of adaptation and provides examples for how to do tactical planning in order to execute agility. By Adam Timlett.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The adoption of Agile methods has been steadily growing in medical product companies over the past ten years. The question is no longer whether, but how Agile can work in medical product development - for our mix of technical, market, and regulatory constraints.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 9, 2020

Most “agile” initiatives fail to meet their value, time and budget goals despite spending ½ their time and 1?3 3 of their budget designing and planning upfront.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 7, 2022

Organizational change doesn’t happen overnight, but that doesn’t mean improving agility is impossible. Regardless of the agile approach, by creating an island of agility, we can set a course to agility while the rest of the organization catches up.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 28, 2021

The book Agile Transformation - Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently by Michael Spayd and Michele Madore provides an integral approach to agile transformations.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 11, 2022

In this article we will be sharing our experience learned from 12 months of adopting certain management and organisational insights from the book Team Topologies. It explores how we identified areas of responsibility and assigned those into mostly customer facing domains which could be given to our teams.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This article explores four key areas that can help a change consultant succeed when dealing with toxic people. Psychopathic or narcissistic toxic employees can slow down the adoption of change in the company. Many of the techniques or practices you use with healthy people do not work well with psychopaths or narcissists. By Erich Bühler.

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APRIL 9, 2019

JAVAPRO , the independent magazine for professional developers, has just published an article by Marion Eickmann on the Agile Strategy Map and how it can support organizations working a highly complex and competitive market environment. You can download a copy of the original article in German here , or an English translation here.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Having worked as a software developer, the agile community has been a great source of inspiration to me to find better ways of working.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 23, 2021

The book The Agile Leader by Zuzana Šochová explains the need for agile leaders and explores what agile leadership looks like. It describes the skills of agile leaders, practices that they use, and provides exercises and assessments that can be used to become an agile leader. By Ben Linders, Zuzana Šochová.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 9, 2021

Fortunately, there are many ways in which introducing agile processes can help organisations deliver innovation projects in quick succession for increased long-term value and customer satisfaction By Alex Chenery-Howes. When we assign measurable criteria to innovation, we can pinpoint which industries are falling behind the curve.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Doing so, repeatedly, frequently, and with the smallest investment to achieve the greatest amount of feedback, is the essence of organizational agility. Customers seek solutions that improve their outcomes, and organizations don’t know what will achieve this until they deliver something to them, measure the results, and adapt accordingly.

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Agile Alliance

JUNE 21, 2021

In this article we look at how Sinek’s ideas can be applied to Agile and Scrum and look at how we, as Agile leaders, can become more inspirational. The post Be an Inspirational Agile Leader first appeared on Agile Alliance. Simon Sinek is well-known as a writer and commentator on Inspirational Leadership.

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Agile Alliance

JUNE 17, 2022

The global pump manufacturer Grundfos is experimenting with implementing Agile techniques for the development of hardware and software components. This article describes how the authors guided and supported the professional development of the Scrum Masters role and competencies, with an emphasis on challenges encountered and lessons learned.

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JUNE 6, 2018

The article includes discussions with business leaders, CEOs, consulting experts, and an interview with Marion Eickmann, who explains how an agile transformation begins and progresses, and the role of leadership in changing organizational culture to achieve greater resilience.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The demand for IT professionals is far higher than the offer. Nowadays the challenge is not just to attract and acquire, but to retain the best professionals in the sector.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s hard to believe that the agile software development methodology officially turned 20 years old last year. What once was an outlying practice for startups collaborating in colocated spaces with stickies and whiteboards is now a sophisticated, scalable, and widely used set of agile software development processes and tools.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 30, 2021

Agile is built on many ideas (Kaizan, Lean, Kanban, etc.), This article explores some of these ideas and highlights how it is very easy to adopt Agile but miss out on these motivational factors I often ask organisations why they want … Continued. but one of the most important is a body of research into human motivation.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 16, 2021

You may need to reorient your team culture to adopt agile-friendly security processes. Is the rapid pace of continuous rollouts making it too easy for your organization to cut corners when it comes to ensuring product source code is secure? By Asim Rahal.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 14, 2020

The book Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick explores how productive conversations can change the way organizations develop software. By Ben Linders, Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick.

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