Posts about Agile (3)

Agile (3)

4 Essential Skills for a QA Engineer in an Agile Environment - Modernized Technology & Testing

Teams are an intricate balance of skills, cooperation, leadership and willingness to go the extra mile to make a quality product. Each grouping has individuals with specific roles and ...

Sanjay Zalavadia

How to Make Your Scrum Master Happy Using JIRA Integrations

Have you ever had your scrum master ask you, "what is going on with that story?" As somebody that has assumed virtually every role possible on an Agile team over the course of my career, I can assure ...

Paul Friedman

How does an organization foster a Culture of Commitment?

Now that you are hopefully convinced that you want your organization to be steeped in a Culture of Commitment, how do you infuse the CofC in your company’s DNA? The “Culture of Commitment enabling” ...

BrianB

Q&A with Joe Campbell: On DevOps Part 2:New Tools, Metrics, and Lessons of Continuous Delivery

Welcome to Interview Series! In this Series, we ask questions that you submit through our social media channels to our consulting practice leaders.

CarmenB

Why is a Culture of Commitment so impactful in an organization?

Having played senior leadership roles in many solutions delivery organizations, we have witnessed both the presence and absence of a Culture of Commitment.

BrianB

Q&A with Joe Campbell: On DevOps

Welcome to our Interview Series! In this Series, we ask questions that you submit through our social media channels to our consulting practice leaders.

CarmenB

Being lean doesn’t mean being mean

Being lean doesn’t mean being mean.

PaulG

What does a Culture of Commitment feel like in an organization?

More often, organizations pervert the notion of the Sprint “commitment” with crushing delivery pressure or a lack of a support structure that allows a real commitment culture to take hold. For these ...

BrianB

Is Your Test Automation Portfolio Ready For Acceleration? Or Will It Slow You Down?

We have all heard of the test pyramid, and the importance of a well-formed base of unit tests, a highly flexible set of integration tests and UI test automation that supports multi-browser validation ...

admin

Commitment is Not a 4-Letter Word in Sprint Planning

The Scrum Guide has entirely moved away from using the word “commit” in relation to the Sprint Planning ceremony and favors having the Development Team “forecast the functionality that will be ...

BrianB