Scrum.org, which is dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery, and the DevOps Institute, which is dedicated to fostering a community around emerging practices in Continuous Delivery and DevOps, today announced an alliance that seeks to build a bridge from agile to DevOps. It will include scrum teams, agile practices and DevOps. I think […]
Using DevOps for Non-Code Artifacts
Figure: Linking various aspects for an article that can be connected through the “DevOps way of working” Innovation lies at the intersection of two or more otherwise-non-related areas. A very intriguing such instance I recently read was of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace setting up the foundation of the modern programmable computer by taking the […]
What DevOps Skills are Organizations Looking for?
DevOps is a cultural, philosophical and organic approach toward automating workflow and getting products to market more efficiently and effectively. DevOps engineers are in top demand right now. According to studies by Gartner, 25 percent of top global 2000 organizations will have adopted DevOps as a mainstream strategy by the end of 2016. DevOps is […]
Test-First Development: Processes and Tools for Success
A lot of software development teams are talking about “test-first” methodologies. The practice involves moving testing up into the very earliest stages of development so automated tests can be written before code. Making this seemingly minor shift can result in much higher quality software and greater efficiencies. Integrating development and testing avoids needless late-stage bugs […]
DevOps Chat: Dave West, CEO Scrum.Org
I recently met Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org. While not one of the founders of Scrum.org, West is the CEO and product owner at Scrum.org. Dave and I spoke a bit what is happening with Scrum.org and how it interacts with DevOps. If you are interested in Agile, DevOps and Scrum, this is a good […]
Case Study: Laserfiche Builds Hybrid Cloud for ECM
Laserfiche is a privately owned software development company that creates enterprise content management (ECM), business process automation, workflow, records management, document imaging and webform software. The company provides secure document management, image capture, electronic forms, workflow automation, digital signatures and DoD 5015.2-certified records management, “Automating and streamlining business processes with prepackaged solutions for contract management, […]
Scrum Co-Creators Unveil New Version of the Scrum Guide
Community Input Contributed to Addition of Scrum Values to Official Scrum Body of Knowledge Boston – July 6, 2016 – Scrum.org, the mission-based organization dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, and Scrum Inc., the world’s premier Scrum training and consulting provider, today announced Scrum co-creatorsKen Schwaber and […]
The Forgotten Fourth Question
A very well-written paragraph about DevOps appears in Mike Loukides’ book, “What is DevOps”: … Modern applications, running in the cloud, still need to be resilient and fault tolerant, still need monitoring, still need to adapt to huge swings in load, etc. But those features, formerly provided by the IT/operations infrastructures, now need to be […]
Best Practices to Prevent Scrum Failure
In my years of experience as a scrum master, I’ve encountered numerous situations where scrum has resulted in less-than-ideal outcomes, a Scrum failure if you will—not because the agile framework is flawed, but because the company didn’t understand, or disregarded, how scrum is supposed to work. For example, I was once a scrum master for […]
4 Ways DevOps Teams Create Value.
Sven Malvik – I’ve written thousand of lines of code based on lies, lies I hoped were the truth. The truth is that we make false assumptions. Assumptions that kill our business. I’ve built software that was too expensive, I’ve built software nobody wanted, and I’ve built software that never saw the light. If you […]