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

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

MARCH 17, 2021

At the QCon London last year, Holly Cummins innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Holly will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 18, 2023

For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn. This article explains how teams can foster such a culture, navigate through the complexities of modern development environments and harness agility to deliver software quickly that fits the needs of users and business sponsors.

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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

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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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps.

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 8, 2023

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 5, 2021

The most significant impact on culture and methods in 2021 is the disruption caused by COVID-19. We see what's needed for good remote and the impact of bad remote bad, how management practices are evolving and the importance of people skills for technologists.

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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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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

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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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves.

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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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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

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

MAY 9, 2023

People and culture teams walk a tightrope balancing workforce demands and culture. This article outlines a vision for Radical Transparency to build strong, sustainable workplace cultures for remote or onsite teams.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Common barriers to transformation value remain people, mindset, and organizational culture, they are so significant that they can halt any transformation from achieving meaningful delivery capabilities. This article explores mechanisms for DNA manipulation to apply the concepts in the organizational environment.

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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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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Governance and culture are inextricably intertwined and creating an environment where people thrive is the most important governance responsibility. Sadly in many organisations governance is perceived as slowing things down and impeding progress, yet effective governance is an enabler that removes blockages and enables flow.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A wave of layoffs hit the software industry and changed the definition of tech culture. This article explores the situation across multiple tech companies, and the diverse choices made to support employees who survived, and those they had to say good-bye to. By Mehnaaz Abidi

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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

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

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

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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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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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?

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Read this article to learn about key challenges, insights and lessons, and get inspired for your own path into experimentation. Have you ever faced a challenge at work that you weren’t sure how to tackle?Experiments Experiments to the rescue! By Lisi Hocke.

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 23, 2022

Here's how companies can create a cultural shift that incorporates micro-app development. While consumer-facing apps have increased, a bigger increase is taking place within enterprises, with so-called “micro-apps” that are used to create customized solutions. By Asim Rahal.

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