"agile" entries
Top Stories: March 26-30, 2012
Designing data products, five tough health care lessons, lean startup for publishers.
This week on O'Reilly: We looked at a four-step approach for designing great data products, Andy Oram shared the lessons he's learned about health care, and we learned about a competitive advantage that publishers aren't seizing.
Agile for real-world publishing
The first in a series looking at the major themes of this year's TOC conference.
Several overriding themes permeated this year's Tools of Change for Publishing conference. The first in a series reviewing five major themes, here we look at agile publishing, in terms of workflow, work environment and practical publishing applications.
There's Plan A, and then there's the plan that will become your business
"Running Lean" author Ash Maurya on startup adaptation and the gift of obscurity.
Drawing from the Lean Startup and other methods, "Running Lean" helps entrepreneurs transform flawed Plan A ideas into viable companies. "Running Lean" author Ash Maurya explains the basics in this interview.
How agile methodologies can help publishers
Bookigee's Kristen McLean says agile techniques from the software world also apply to publishing.
Bookigee founder Kristen McLean explains how lightweight development, flexible teams and other agile methods can help publishers with content development and workflows.
The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade
It was the best of decades, it was the worst of decades...
With only a few weeks left until we close out the ‘naughts and move into the teens, it’s almost obligatory to take a look back at the best and not-so-best of the last decade. With that in mind, I polled the O’Reilly editors, authors, Friends, and a number of industry movers and shakers to gather nominations. I then tossed them in the trash and made up my own compiled them together and looked for trends and common threads. So here then, in no particular order, are the best and the worst that the decade had to offer.
David Hoover’s Top 5 Tips for Apprentices
Finding a Good Mentor is Key
If you’re a senior developer with years of experience under your belt, it may be hard to remember what it was like coming out of college with a newly minted CS degree, and entering the workplace. But as David Hoover argues, helping these newcomers to the workforce to succeed can be the difference between effective, motivated developers and confused, discouraged ones. Hoover is the author of the new O’Reilly book Apprenticeship Patterns, and he says that people coming right out of college may, in fact, be less motivated than someone who has been working for a while.
David Hoover's Top 5 Tips for Apprentices
Finding a Good Mentor is Key
If you’re a senior developer with years of experience under your belt, it may be hard to remember what it was like coming out of college with a newly minted CS degree, and entering the workplace. But as David Hoover argues, helping these newcomers to the workforce to succeed can be the difference between effective, motivated developers and confused, discouraged ones. Hoover is the author of the new O’Reilly book Apprenticeship Patterns, and he says that people coming right out of college may, in fact, be less motivated than someone who has been working for a while.
Welcoming Eric Ries to the Radar Team
The Radar blog is a community of thinkers organized around the O’Reilly mission to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Some of the folks with posting privileges on Radar are O’Reilly employees, others work part-time with us, and others are interesting people we have met along the journey. They are people who’ve stimulated our thinking and helped us reflect on areas we want to learn about. In each case the goal is the same – talk about “Stuff That Matters” and generate meaningful conversation. With that in mind, I wanted to welcome Eric Ries to the Radar community.
Release Early, Release Often: Agile Software Development in Publishing
Agile software development has transformed online product development. Can it do the same in publishing?