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

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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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Adopting agile methodologies for flexibility and adaptation The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously stated, “Change is the only constant.” In today’s business environment, agile methodologies have become indispensable for maintaining alignment between IT and business strategies.

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In a recent article on five IT risks CIOs should be paranoid about , I highlighted several IT team culture issues, including team burnout, mounting technical debt, and continuous crisis management cycles. Worse, issues that undermine IT culture may not appear in these KPIs or employee satisfaction surveys for months.

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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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The Crazy Programmer

APRIL 10, 2019

According to a survey taken of the Scrum Alliance, approximately 70 percent of all groups handling Agile software development believe there are issues present between various internal departments within the company. The fact is, Agile groups work at a much faster pace. Improper Training of the Agile Team.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This article explores this shift signaling a new era for leadership — one where those who understand both the business landscape and the technical ecosystem are best positioned to lead. Decisions made in isolation lead to inefficiencies, slower responses to market changes, and a lack of agility that stifles innovation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article delves into the six steps of delivering a successful IT strategy. By staying ahead of market trends, the organization remains agile, adaptable, and ready to outperform rivals. This process includes establishing core principles such as agility, scalability, security, and customer centricity.

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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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CIO

APRIL 23, 2025

I believe that the fundamental design principles behind these systems, being siloed, batch-focused, schema-rigid and often proprietary, are inherently misaligned with the demands of our modern, agile, data-centric and AI-enabled insurance industry. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

As enterprises scale their digital transformation journeys, they face the dual challenge of managing vast, complex datasets while maintaining agility and security. This article dives into five key data management trends that are set to define 2025.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2025

However, IT must now shift from a support function to a strategic driver of growth, aligning priorities and goals with the broader organizational strategy according to an article published in Exclaimer. IQ ensures preparedness; EQ enables agility. Visionary leaders understand the need for agility, creativity and resilience.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers.

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Agile Alliance

MARCH 30, 2021

We started this article series asking this question: How much Lean is in today’s Agile? Agile” has become an umbrella term that is used for many things that are useful and helpful. However, “Agile” is also a term that is widely associated with cargo cult behaviour. (This is Part 5 in a 5-part series.)

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Agile42

MARCH 20, 2025

At the same time, I’m considering how the intelligent and agile working approaches, which I wholeheartedly believe in, stand on these issues. I wanted to share with you the article I compiled in the context of these topics.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Struggling with your "agile transformation?" In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users. Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for?

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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

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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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI has become a crucial partner for DevOps teams that aim for agility and strength in a rapidly changing cloud world. In this article, we will look closely at how Generative AI is transforming DevOps. We will talk about the challenges and opportunities it brings.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

To keep pace with the growing complexity of software development, organizations have spent years working to implement agile practices into their developer experience. But many organizations are still struggling to achieve agility and state that progress is still slow and projects are stalled.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 28, 2022

In her illustrations, animations, and articles for The Guardian and publications like FiveThirtyEight and The New York Times, she explores data sets from the timely (affirmative action, voting trends, race, politics) to the offbeat (popular dog names in New York … Continued.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Pivoting is positive, says Shevelenko: “The most important thing with agility is actually being able to gracefully admit you’re wrong, or that you’ve learned new information and are adapting.”. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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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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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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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

There are trade-offs of consistency and maintainability versus agility that need to be carefully decided upon. Automation: Maximizing tools and practices in the delivery environments like IAC, CICD, DevOps, SecOps and Test Automation aligned with the technology and cloud provider stacks and enable sustainable agile delivery.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This article shows why we must design, implement and operate our delivery pipelines (the means of turning ideas into products in the hands of users) as we would any other product or service: by adding a “product mindset’.

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 6, 2024

Even skilled and motivated agile teams sometimes fail to achieve their own software quality goals. In this article, we present a practice we use to assist agile teams in reaching their quality goals and share our experience. The practice is about paying constant attention to specific metrics.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Those who manage it strategically, however, can turn data gravity into a competitive advantage, using it to enhance performance, security and agility across a distributed cloud infrastructure. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum. The lesson? Adaptability is key.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The latter option had emerged as a compelling solution, offering the promise of enhanced agility, reduced operational costs, and seamless scalability. To make sure we are comparing apples to apples we used Agile story point to identify comparable features. Time to market. Developer productivity.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 12, 2023

Agile product management is a flexible and adaptable technique that emphasizes the incremental and iterative delivery of software. Agile planning, which is done at various levels to make sure the product remains on track and provides value to the client, is one of the fundamental elements of Agile.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 20, 2021

This article discusses how these emerging technologies need some new approaches, and changes to existing approaches to software testing. The introduction of next-gen technologies like AI, Big Data, Robotics and IoT have quickly redefined the way the world looks at software technology. By Kanika Vatsyayan.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 16, 2021

This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. Mind map-driven testing can enable testers to focus on test idea generation, it exposes you to your thinking and enables you to brainstorm and organize your ideas effectively.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The reason is an agile network creates the foundation for every area of the business to innovate, from IT to R&D and logistics. With an agile network, the infrastructure is always ready to integrate, support, secure, and fund any new technological developments that might help the business to move the needle on its goals.

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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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