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

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

MAY 27, 2022

Most organizations adopt a dual approach to agility, with some parts of the organization working in an agile way that delivers value in increments, measures the response and adapts accordingly, while the “traditional” organization continues to work as it always has in a relatively top-down way.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 4, 2022

Making Agile work in the age of hybrid and remote teams requires extra effort to stay aligned and collaborative. This article explores how development teams can stay agile, even when face-to-face collaboration isn’t an option by using visual collaboration to build context and alignment, and adopting new practices for engaging meetings.

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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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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 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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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Agile Alliance blog is a popular destination for our community of practitioners. It contains the latest and greatest articles in the Agile space. The post Top 10 Agile Alliance Blog Posts of 2020 first appeared on Agile Alliance. A wide array of topics were popular in 2020. … Continued.

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Xebia

APRIL 12, 2023

Management summary Why agile? How agile vanishes hidden costs. Agile has a kind of haze around it. Many embarked on an agile transformation. This article elaborates on how Agile strengthens your bottom line. This article elaborates on how Agile strengthens your bottom line.

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Martin Fowler

APRIL 27, 2022

Martin Fowler is the author of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code , the seminal book about refactoring, as well as many other books and articles about software development. The Art of Agile Development Book Club takes place Fridays from 8:00 – 8:45am Pacific. Reading: ?? Refactoring. About the Book Club.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Learning agility — the skill of learning from experiences so you can succeed in new situations — is a much sought-after skill to create a flexible, mobile, and resilient workforce. For example, a leader with learning agility can successfully transfer their talents across different parts of an organization.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

An Agile Transformation does not need to be hard, if you know where to start and what to do you will increase your chances of success as a leader. The Agile Transformation Roadmap Do you want to do an Agile Transformation but you do not know where to start? This roadmap will help you!

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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

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

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

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 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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Xebia

AUGUST 2, 2023

Agile is a rapidly growing field, and there is a wealth of knowledge and experience out there to be shared. But how do you find other agile practitioners who share your interests? In this blog post, I will share some tips on how to build a global community of practice for agility. To share your knowledge.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

One of the pillars of the ADAPT Methodology™ is the Agility part, that`s why talking about Agile Transformation Mistakes is very important! In this blog post, we make you aware of 14 common Agile Transformation Mistakes that you must avoid at any cost! Agile Transformation Mistakes 1. This roadmap will help you!

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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

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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Martin Fowler

MARCH 6, 2018

Several years ago, Diana Larsen and James Shore came up with their Agile Fluency model. This categorizes agile usage into four zones, where later zones produce more benefit, but also require greater investment. I've found this model a useful way to understand how different groups of people use agile ideas in varying ways.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We’re excited to introduce you to two illuminating articles recently featured on CMSWire.com, “The Heart of Composable Architecture,” and “Navigating the Long Tail of Composable in the Martech Landscape” Both articles were penned by Perficient’s own David San Filippo, Sitecore Principal and Sitecore Technology MVP.

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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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Henrik Warne

APRIL 26, 2020

In the October issue of IEEE Computer magazine, there was an article by Kent Beck called “Embracing change with extreme programming” In it, he outlined Extreme Programming (XP), which includes much of what we now refer to as agile development. Reading the article was a real eye-opener. Conclusion.

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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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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

When starting an Agile Implementation good agile consulting firms are mandatory, this article explains to you what you should look for when hiring one so that you do not run into troubles. Ask for content If you’ve found agile consulting firms you want to hire, check out their website first. Content really is king.

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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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Data Virtualization

MARCH 20, 2024

The post Navigating Disruptions with Operational Agility and Resilience appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information. These disruptions have propelled businesses into initiating or accelerating.

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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

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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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

When companies transform towards an agile and DevOps way of working, they sometimes ask how to proceed with architects. A core problem we see is that those responsible for the transformation have little experience dealing with architecture in an agile way. The scrum masters are concerned with the agile process on a team level.

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