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Agile Operations – Optimizing the Business One Shell Script at a Time

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Operations,
Agile Techniques,
Agile,
Optimization,
Removing Waste

Dan North and Chris Read discuss techniques for implementing Agile Operations, a combination of Lean thinking and Agile development meant to optimize the business processes in order to reduce waste.

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Individual Yield

Topics
Delivering Quality,
Project Management,
Careers,
Removing Waste

Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt, enumerates some practical points on individual procutivity. This article wonders how well these apply to software development and contrasts his list with that of other lists.

Get Back To Work!

Topics
Leadership,
Agile,
Agile Techniques,
Removing Waste

Hitting a kanban limit introduces slack into an organization by temporarily stopping the work that feeds into a bottleneck. So how can you convince management that introducing a kanban limit (i.e. stopping work) could actually be a good thing?

JRebel 3.0 Release - Hotswap Reloaded

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Java,
Application Servers,
Removing Waste

JRebel 3.0 was released on April 16th. It targets turnaround time in Java development by removing the need for redeployment. Instead it supports advanced class reloading. The article details updating Java classes at runtime and provides an overview of the technologies used in JRebel and especially the improvements of the recently version 3.0.

Experiment Driven Development - The Post-Agile Way

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile Techniques,
Ruby,
Methodologies,
Agile,
Customers & Requirements,
Removing Waste

TDD and BDD are now widely-used software development techniques. However, solely following TDD & BDD may still lead to missed business opportunities, or worse, a negative impact to the business. Two questions which TDD & BDD are unable to answer are: How do you measure the usage of your application? How do you get feedback from your customers? Is Experiment-Driven Development (EDD) the answer?

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Slimmed Down Software - A Lean, Groovy Approach

Topics
Delivering Quality,
Agile Techniques,
Agile,
Java,
Optimization,
Removing Waste

Hamlet D'Arcy explains the Lean principles - Eliminate Waste, Build Quality In, Create Knowledge, Defer Commitment, Deliver Fast, Respect People, Optimize the Whole – in the context of using Groovy as programming language.

Rapid and Reliable Releases

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Operations,
Devops,
Agile,
Build systems,
Reliability,
Collaboration,
Removing Waste

Rolf Russell & Andy Duncan discuss how to have rapid and reliable releases from the perspective of build, release, and devops, considering the relationship between the teams involved, the metrics needed to measure the performance achieved, the required skills, and the need to remove waste and bottlenecks.

Version Control: Blood, Brain & Bones

Topics
Ruby,
Removing Waste

Usain Bolt revealed his nutrition sources: KFC, McDonald's & Chinese Food. If the world's fastest man doesn't eat healthy food, why should programmers? Because programmers know about Version Control!

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Craig Larman on the Challenges of Scaling Scrum to Large Organizations

Topics
Change,
Agile,
Adopting Agile,
learning,
Removing Waste

In this interview, Craig Larman discusses the many challenges you face when scaling scrum to large organizations. These challenges stem from decisions to use component teams over feature teams; adopting out sourcing without careful consideration for the impact of that decision; and over specialization of skills and limited learning which leads to waste, bottlenecks, and poor performance.