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Scrum Alone is Not Enough – An Interview with Mark Levison

Mark Levison recently wrote a blog on “Scrum Alone is Not Enough”, which is the first blog of a series to uncover various Agile patterns. Till now he has published blogs on Kanban Portfolio View and Portfolio Management in the series.

Savita Pahuja
on Jul 26, 2015
The Hierarchy of Needs

What may be valuable to customers whom you do not even know in an unstructured and completely individualized market? This article suggests prioritizing your backlog using an enhanced quality model based on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs. Search for most valuable features using the Need-Feature-Capability matrix and give those features highest priority in your backlog.

Manfred Rätzmann
on Jul 24, 2015
Culture & Methods

A Case for Diversity in Our Workspaces

Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg makes a case for supporting neurodiveristy in our workplaces.

Sallyann Freudenberg
on Jul 23, 2015
Increasing your Agility: An interview with Dave Thomas

At the GOTO Amsterdam 2015 conference Dave Thomas gave a keynote presentation titled "agile is dead". While the "Agile" industry is busy debasing the meaning of the word, the underlying values are still strong. Dave Thomas suggests to stop using the word agile and switch to agility: repeatedly taking small steps towards where you want to be and evaluate what happened.

Ben Linders
on Jul 21, 2015
7 Habits of Highly Effective Monitoring Infrastructures

There is a right way and a wrong way to engineer effective telemetry systems and there is a finite combination of practices which — whatever your choice of individual tools — are predictive of success. If you are building or designing your next monitoring system, take a look at this short list of habits exhibited by the most successful monitoring systems in the world today.

Dave Josephsen
on Jul 20, 2015
The Practice and Future of Release Engineering

This article features highlights from interviews with release engineers on the state of the practice and challenges in release engineering space. The interview questions cover topics like release engineering metrics, continuous delivery's benefits and limitations.

Tamara Marshall-Keim Christian Bird Foutse Khomh Bram Adams Kim Moir Stephany Bellomo
on Jul 19, 2015
Book Review and Q&A on Agile IT Organization Design

Sriram Narayan’s book – Agile IT Organization Design, provides a basis for reviewing and reshaping the IT organization to equip it better for the digital age. The book covers how structural, political, operational, and cultural facets of the organization design influence overall IT agility.

Savita Pahuja
on Jul 17, 2015
Developing a High Capacity Network Gateway with LeSS

This report summarizes how the Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework was used in developing a high capacity network gateway and how to grow R&D from 2 co-located teams to 20+ teams. It also describes how LeSS and agile development practices significantly accelerated the time to market and gave us the flexibility that traditional development practices never offered.

Ran Nyman
on Jul 15, 2015
The Most Common Reasons Why Software Projects Fail

Knowing the basics of software development can greatly improve the project outcome; however, that alone is not enough to prevent project failures. Projects can be categorized as failures because of cost overruns, late deliveries or poor quality, but the right estimation processes can increase the likelihood of project success.

Doug Putnam Taylor Putnam-Majarian
on Jul 13, 2015
The World is One Family - Why That Matters for Software Corporations and Professionals

Rev. C. L. Gulati of Sant Nirankari Mission presented the opening keynote on the conference theme – Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – The World is one family, at the Regional Scrum Gathering South Asia 2015. Kamlesh Ravlani, one of the volunteer event organizers, spoke with him about this philosophy, its implications for global organizations and why the software community should care about it.

Kamlesh Ravlani
on Jul 12, 2015
Practices for DevOps and Continuous Delivery

DevOps is an attempt to break the barrier between development and operations teams, who are both required for the successful delivery of software says Danilo Sato. His book Devops in Practice: Reliable and automated software delivery provides a hands-on approach for implementing continuous delivery and DevOps practices.

Ben Linders
on Jul 10, 2015
Business, Design, and Engineering: Developing Collaboration-Culture

The collaboration of a company and its multidisciplinary units has never been more crucial than now. Everything we make today depends upon our ability to stay current, move nimbly, innovate, engage and delight. Those things are too difficult to achieve without cross-team collaboration.

Jaimee Newberry
on Jul 09, 2015

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