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DevOps @ Nokia Entertainment

DevOps@Nokia Entertainment is the first article of the “DevOps War Stories” series. Each month we hear what DevOps brings to a different organisation, we learn what worked and what didn’t, and chart the challenges faced during adoption.

John Clapham
on Jan 31, 2013
Agile Podcasts: A Great Learning Alternative

Reading is a very widespread way of consuming information about Agile practices, but it is not the only way. Listening to podcasts is an alternative way to increase your knowledge.

Kirill Klimov
on Jan 30, 2013
Why Should Agilists Care About Capitalization?

This article examines the impact of accounting rules on Agile projects and provides perspectives and resources to make the accounting argument for agile capitalization, potentially reducing your company’s tax burden, increasing available funds for engineers, and making your auditors happy.

Dan R. Greening
on Jan 29, 2013
Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide

"Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide" is a good starting point for newbies as well as for those facing the challenge of changing organizations with complex release processes.

Manuel Pais
on Jan 26, 2013
Interview and Book Review: A practical approach to large-scale Agile development

A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development tells the story about applying agile and lean principles in a large scale software development program for the HP laserjet futuresmart firmware. An interview with with two of the authors, Gary Gruver and Mike Young, about agile principles, managing change, collaboration between distributed teams, and the benefits of using agile.

Ben Linders
on Jan 25, 2013
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The Role of the Development Manager

A Development Manager has a number of responsibilities, but the primary one is to get a product out the door. Filling this role requires a large skill set and this article discusses what skills are needed, and not needed, to be an effective Development Manager.

Robert McCabe
on Jan 14, 2013
Integrated ALM Tools Are Fundamental to Success

The typical software delivery project captures requirements numerous times, describes tests in multiple places, is indiscriminate of what is in a particular build, and often requires a large amount of analysis to know who is doing what and why. Dave West looks at the problems this causes and argues for holistic, integrated ALM approach.

Dave West
on Jan 09, 2013
Automated Builds: The Key to Consistency

If there's one thing software developers are good at, it's automating things that used to be done manually. Making life easier for everyone by letting computers handle tedious repeatable tasks, allowing people to focus on what matters to them is what we’re here for. However, development teams often neglect the one audience that would benefit the most - themselves.

Joe Enos
on Jan 02, 2013
Interview with Yves Hanoulle on the Agile and Lean Mindset

At the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference, Yves Hanoulle did a session about the agile and lean mindset. InfoQ spoke with him on the mindset, his experiences with pair working, and how he collaborates in the agile community.

Ben Linders
on Dec 28, 2012
Tradeoffs: Giving up Certainty

While organizations operate under an illusion of certainty, tradeoffs are inevitable. Giving up certainty does not mean giving up predictability. This article examines four flow choices for software delivery and presents three choices for IT Delivery: Throughput, Flexibility and all out speed.

Paul Dolman-Darrall
on Dec 20, 2012
Why the Agile Project Manager is the Secret Sauce for Development Projects

The Agile project manager is sometimes referred to as the “secret sauce” for software development projects? Leo Abdala describes a recent development project at a Fortune 50 company where the Agile PM instilled confidence with and produced a value-generating product for the client

Leonardo Abdala
on Dec 18, 2012
Why Agile Methods Work

There is great economic value in looking at software processes from an execution perspective to examine their strengths and weaknesses. Keeping this perspective in mind keeps us at a safe distance from abusing buzzwords like Agile methods without really understanding the underlying principles that make them work.

Yaser Ghanam
on Dec 12, 2012

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