Agile
Agile DevOps Israel 2018
Keynote Speakers Moving Fast At Scale Randy Shoup https://youtu.be/H7cgbdkNt7s IT Leadership in the Age of DevOps Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist @ Amazon Web Services More
Engineering Practices
Amusement Park Methods
Sometimes you stumble upon amusement park methods.
Remember the feeling when first going through the gates of a big amusement park? When you get a first glimpse of how vast it is? you see some rides close by and in the distance, you see the tall roller coasters. That’s the feeling I’m talking about.
You start scrolling through the method. Just to understand what’s before you, you want to see how long it gets. You scroll and scroll and it goes on and on, and you start to go faster but it never ends. As Louis and Clark tried to find a path through the Rockies to get to the Pacific, you are making your way through this monstrous method, this fantastic creation.
Agile Marketing
How to Keep Content Marketing Agile
When I talk to marketing teams, Content is one of the areas with the most desire for achieving agility without losing your sanity. Here is
Kanban
Understanding the Kanban for Scrum Teams Guide
It’s been so exciting to hear so much positive feedback and interest in the new Scrum.org Kanban for Scrum Teams guide and the accompanying Professional Scrum with Kanban class. Creating the class and guide together with Daniel (Vacanti) & Steve (Porter) and then working on getting it to market in a professional way (how else? ) with the Scrum.org staff has been a great experience and a major focus area for me in the last couple of months.
As you might imagine, together with the interest come some questions about some choices we made in the design of the guide and the class. Several are emerging as the frequently asked ones. I wanted to tackle a couple of those in this post.
Where are some of the core Kanban practices?
Feature teams
Team Storming and Compost
A team I am working with is in the storming stage of its development.
Finally.
It’s been some time that they have been forming, carefully learning each other, sometimes from afar. Each person was doing their own stuff, limiting their interaction to consultations. Every person to their own.
DevOps
In Progress vs. Dev, QA
When we build the team’s board for the first time there’s many times the question of how to represent work in progress, how to show what’s going on between “Ready/Committed” (The backlog of the sprint, items ready to be developed) and “Done”.
There are usually two main options.
Engineering Practices
Time To Reorg – An Intro to Refactoring
Organizations reorg all the time. And again. Why do they do that? Setting cynicism aside, organizations reorg to adapt to new realities, to new demands. A team of 5 people that grew to 20 people needs to split to smaller teams. A business group dealing with a fast-growing market needs to come up with a new strategy to cope with the demand. A startup of 20 people will need a different structure than that of a company of 100 people. As business demands change there is a need to adapt the organization’s structure.
Reorg is an expensive venture, yet organizations do it again and again. Because they have to do it – they have no choice.
Agile Testing
Dev and Test, Sitting in a Tree: K-I-S-S-I-N-G
When I was a kid cars didn’t have seat belts in the back seat. We used to fly to and fro all over whenever the
Kanban
Finally – An Email Inbox Focused Personal Kanban Board
The Email Inbox – The real Personal Kanban frontier
I’ve been struggling for years with visualizing my personal work using Kanban.
Using a physical board isn’t that practical since a lot of the time I actually do my work I’m not at my office.
I then tried Kanban tools such as LeanKit, Trello (and even AgileZen…). This worked pretty well for a while, but I kept falling out of it. Something was missing.
Scaled Agile Framework
Becoming a SAFe Program Consultant – Studying for the SPC Exam
TL;DR – Looking for SAFe exam questions? Sorry, move along, nothing for you here… If otoh you’re looking for some tips on how to properly study for the exam that seems to have worked for dozens of my students for the SPC exam and other SAFe exams, hang around….
I’ve recently been teaching quite a bit of Implementing SAFe classes. Students are always interested in some tips and tricks on how to prepare for the SPC certification exam, especially since it’s a non-trivial exam even if you attend a class with trainers that know what they’re doing and if you listen and participate throughout. The vast majority of my students pass the exam, but it doesn’t hurt to know how to study.
