Category → Agile Methodologies
May 12th, 2010
Launch Dates – The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Setting a launch date for your new web site is common practice. Even though nobody knows what exactly the site might look like and even less how much effort it will be to launch it, the release date is fixed. This can have positive and negative effects. The Good The positive side of having a [...] Related posts:Static Backlogs, Delivery Dates...May 5th, 2010
What have we done for you today?
I’m a firm believer of release early and often. If there’s more than 10 new commits in our code repository awaiting release, I start to get uncomfortable. Whether it’s extra “inventory sitting on our shelves” instead of in your browser, or the uncertainty of “going live” with a bunch of new stuff and then...By Dan Ackerson • Posted in Agile Methodologies, devops, lean, single piece flow, toyota way • Comments Off
April 17th, 2010
How to guide a team through a crisis
No matter whether your team is self-organizing or not, when the shit hits the fan, they’ll need strict rules and close guiding to manage the crisis. Clear Responsibilities First, everyone has to know exactly what they’re supposed to do. Whether it’s restarting crashed servers, capturing log outputs, or just staying the hell out...March 30th, 2010
Using Kanban For DevOps Projects
This is a guest post by Robert Dempsey, CEO & Founder of Atlantic Dominion Solutions. He helps clients with agile training and builds products like scrum’d. I wish I had known about Kanban when I was a network administrator. It would have helped me immensely in terms of prioritization of work and making everything we [...] Related...March 24th, 2010
DevOps: Why Silos Suck And How To Break Them
Divide and conquer, Caesar’s strategy to break huge problems down into smaller parts, is an outdated model for structuring teams and organizations. Breaking teams apart by area like development, QA, operations, product management, etc, creates silo like divisions of labor. Unfortunately, these divisions create so many “walls of...August 7th, 2009
The 12 principles behind the agile manifesto adapted to web operations
Walking once again through the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto, I realized how tailored they are for software development projects. Yet experience has shown that agile practices are not strictly limited to development projects, but to all areas involved in bringing a software product to the users. Here is my version of the twelve...By Matthias Marschall • Posted in agile, agile manifesto, Agile Methodologies, agile system administration, devops • Comments Off
November 30th, 2008