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Improving Speed and Stability of Software Delivery Simultaneously at Siemens Healthineers

In this article, we focus on the software delivery process at Siemens Healthineers Digital Health. The process is subject to strict regulations valid in the medical industry. We show our journey of transforming the process towards speed and stability. Both measures improved at the same time during the transformation, confirming research from the “Accelerate” book.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Aug 24, 2021
Culture & Methods

A Journey in Test Engineering Leadership: Applying Session-Based Test Management

This article shows how modifying Session-based Test Management to our context helped us gain more visibility into our testing. Having a structured yet flexible approach to test management allowed us to make better, more timely decisions about the testing, and gave us more opportunities to influence quality decisions earlier in the process.

Djuka Selendic
on Aug 02, 2021
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Infinite Gamification

The book Infinite Gamification by Toby Beresford explains how to create sustainable gamification programs that motivate teams and individuals for continuous improvement, using prime directives, scores, measurements, and badges. Using gamification you can design staff scorecards that drive behavior.

Ben Linders Toby Beresford
on Oct 07, 2020
Culture & Methods

Critical Metrics to Keep Delivering Software Effectively in the "New Normal" World

The health of your software delivery capability is critical in the ‘new normal’ world. This requires the ability to track a hierarchy of metrics. Our top five overall delivery health metrics include: Time to Value; Deployment Frequency; and Team Engagement. Whichever metrics you choose, it is managing to metrics that is critical in the ‘new normal’ world.

Charlie Ponsonby
on May 05, 2020
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making – Optimizing the Product Delivery Organization

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. Applying Hypotheses, CD Indicators and SRE’s SLIs / SLOs enables a software delivery organization to optimize for effectiveness, efficiency and service reliability.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Apr 20, 2020
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making – Product Operations with Site Reliability Engineering

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Operations, SRE’s SLIs and SLOs can be used to steer the reliability of services in production.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Mar 25, 2020 2
Culture & Methods

Article Series: Data-Driven Decision Making

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Mar 06, 2020
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making – Product Development with Continuous Delivery Indicators

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Development, Continuous Delivery Indicators can be used to steer the efficiency of the development process.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Feb 26, 2020
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making – Product Management with Hypotheses

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Product Management, hypotheses can be used to steer the effectiveness of product decisions about feature prioritization.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Feb 02, 2020 3
Culture & Methods

Using OKRs to Build Autonomous Impact Teams

To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams.

Ben Linders Christopher Parola Nicolas Baron
on Jan 31, 2020
Culture & Methods

Velocity and Better Metrics: Q&A with Doc Norton

Velocity is not good for predictions or diagnostics, argued Doc Norton at Experience Agile 2019. It's a lagging indicator of a complex system which is too volatile to know what our future performance will be; it isn’t stable enough to be used reliably. We can use Monte Carlo simulation for forecasting, and cumulative flow diagrams to track work, see changes in scope, and spot bottlenecks.

Ben Linders Doc Norton
on Oct 16, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Managing Technical Debt

The book Managing Technical Debt by Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, and Ipek Ozkaya provides principles and practices that help you gain control of technical debt throughout the software development process and life of the software product.

Ben Linders Philippe Kruchten Robert Nord Ipek Ozkaya
on Sep 30, 2019