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The Future-Ready Organization: An Interview with Agile Manifesto Co-Author Arie Van Bennekum
Co-Author of the Agile Manifesto and Thought Leader, Arie van Bennekum is probably one of the rare co-authors of the Agile Manifesto who never lost touch with the essence of agile. To become agile, people and organizations must shift to a totally different paradigm. Arie designed an Integrated Agile Transformation Model, a proven approach to transforming organizations to new agile paradigms.
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The State of DevOps in Banking – Report from DOES London 2018
At the 2018 DevOps Enterprise Summit in London, a number of banks presented talks that shared their experience and learning around the principles and practice of embracing DevOps: CapitalOne, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, Key Bank, Standard Bank, ABN Amro, UBS and RBS. Here, we summarise the key points of their talks and identify the correlations and crossovers in the messages.
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Testing Programmable Infrastructure - a Year On
Programmable infrastructure is becoming widespread. There are very specific domain issues that make testing it tricky. This article looks at the evolution of tooling and approaches used to address it.
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Microservices from a Startup Perspective
When starting a journey to microservices, knowing what to consider might be overwhelming. No golden rule that is easily applicable exists. Every journey is different, since every organization is facing different circumstances. In this article I am sharing some lessons learned and challenges from a startup perspective, and what I would do differently the next time introducing microservices.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems
The book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker explains how agile principles and practices can be used to build quality in from the start to develop medical and other safety-critical systems.
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How to Achieve Collaboration as a Key Driver for Continuous Testing
Far too often the dream of a successful digital transformation shatters against a limited, team-centric continuous testing strategy. This article describes how testing must be applied to fit not only agile teams but also the whole enterprise, why collaboration is the key enabler and how different testing techniques work together for overall success.
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The Cloud Native QA
The advent and widespread adoption of the cloud ecosystem presents a new challenge to the modern-day QA. What does it mean to be QA in a Cloud Native software business?
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Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility
The book Enterprise Agility by Sunil Mundra aims to make you think about organizations as living systems that thrive on fast paced change. It’s intended for leaders, managers, and coaches, who want to improve the agility of their organization and develop the personal traits that enable change.
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Evaluating Hyperledger Composer
Hyperledger Composer is a new open source project which makes it easy for developers to write chaincode for Hyperledger Fabric and the decentralized applications (DApps) that can call them. This article summarizes a technical evaluation of the performance characteristics of using Composer in a test application.
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Agile: Reflective Practice and Application
We explore how successful software development is based on the following three intertwining thought processes: Systems Thinking, Community Context and Reflective Practices. A majority of unsuccessful transformations result from a failure by members of the team to grasp that they are contributing to a larger system, or an unwillingness to learn how to improve, or that software is a team sport.
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Agnostic Agile: The Key to a Successful Lean Agile Transformation
Agnostic Agile principles facilitate and accelerate both the organization’s transformation as well as its Lean Agile evolution. Internalizing the Lean Agile Values and Principles are key to a successful Lean Agile transformation. Organizational complexity demands a multi-framework approach. A dogmatic, prescriptive approach to Agile is not only dangerous but is not Agile at all.
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Coaching Technical Practices
In the past 4-5 years I have been working as a software development coach, helping organizations around London improve their technical practices. I focus on XP practices, specifically TDD, Pair Programming, Refactoring and Simple Design. In this article I share my experiences organizing coaching sessions, including subject selection and sequencing, exercises for each subject and session formats.