Q&A with Joe Campbell: On DevOps
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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
We are Speaking: Lean and Agile – A Mindset – Not Just A Methodology
We are happy to announce that Brian will be speaking at the PMI-Delaware Valley Chapter on Thursday, August 26, 2015. You can learn about Agile and earn 2 PDU's!
admin
Enterprise DevOps Accelerates Release Orientation Adoption
As we discussed in the previous blog, lean release management processes are the foundation block for release orientation. In order to amplify the value delivery across multiple synchronized value ...
Naeem Hussain
Enterprise Release Management Orchestration
The first step is to get the organization aligned on a agile delivery cadence that is most appropriate depending on the type of business – more importantly the expectation from your end users. For ...
Naeem Hussain
SAFe for Small Value Streams – The Portfolio Level and Wrapping It Up
At the Portfolio Level, there are really no significant impacts for SVS pattern organizations. We still use Kanban systems to manage the business epic and architecture epic pipelines that flow into ...
Brian
We’re speaking at Scrum Gathering New Orleans 2014!
We are happy to announce that Naeem and Brian will be speaking at the Global Scrum Gathering New Orleans 2014. Our session is called "Hop Onto the Release Orientation Trolley" (in the New Orleans ...