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Improving Developer Experience in Non-Technical Organisations with BMK
BMK has recently written about the challenges and DevEx compromises faced by engineers within traditionally non-technical enterprises. McKinsey Digital also recently published a report which asserts that every company is a software company. We report on BMK and McKinsey's recommendations for non-technical firms to improve their delivery by adopting safer software cultures.
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Highlights from SEACON:UK 2019 - Enterprise Measurement, Enterprise Structuring for Outcomes
This is a summary of the key topics and presentations from the SEACON:UK Study of Enterprise Agility conference held in London 12th November 2019. Key messages from the conference were about: measuring success at enterprise level; structuring your organisation for agility; the importance of culture in agility at scale; and the use of cloud services in the enterprise. All are available on YouTube.
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Gartner Updates Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools
In 2017, Gartner replaced their study on “Application Development Lifecycle Management” with new research on “Enterprise Agile Planning Tools”. According to the analysts, by leveraging customer centric and business outcome driven practices with continual feedback, Enterprise Agile Planning (EAP) tools help organizations establish agile practices at scale
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Co-Author of Agile Manifesto and Creator of Enterprise Scrum Mike Beedle Passed Away
Mike Beedle, co-author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and the creator of Enterprise Scrum, has passed away at the age of 55. He leaves his wife and six children behind.
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Inaugural Business Agility Conference Considered Successful
The inaugural Business Agility conference was recently held in New York. Over 330 people attended the sold-out event, and the response from participants and speakers emphasizes the importance of culture and mindset in adopting agile thinking across the whole organisation, and how important business agility is for success in today's volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment.
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Survey Finds IT Still Not Aligned with Customer and Business Needs
The results of a survey, run by Tasktop using the Forrester Modern Application Assessment Tool, indicate that, despite the ongoing adoption of agile, lean, DevOps and other "modern" approaches, there is still a large gap between IT development priorities and the needs of customers and business people in many organisations.
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CA Technologies CEO Says "Built To Change is the New Paradigm"
CA Technologies CEO Mike Gregoire opened the recent CA World conference predicting that successful companies of the future will be “Built To Change” by putting software at the center of everything they do, and that they need to be "built to change" from the ground up with software as the primary enabler of competitive advantage. He gave examples of the impact of this disruption.
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Don't Copy the Spotify Model
The Spotify model can help you to understand how things are done at Spotify, but you shouldn’t copy it in your own organization. It changes all the time as people at Spotify learn and discover new things. There is no one way in which software is developed at Spotify.
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Agile Executive Forum 2016 Summary
The Agile Alliance hosted a one-day Executive Forum in San Jose, CA on September 19. The event attracted participants from around the world and a range of senior speakers from large organisations, and focused on how adopting agile development impacts companies and what executives need to do to help ensure successful cultural transformation, which is what agile adoption at scale is about.
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Agile 2016: The Executives Step-By-Step Guide to Leading Large-Scale Agile Transformation
During his presentation at the Agile 2016 conference, Mike Cottmeyer focused on leading large-scale agile transformations. He specifically discussed how to talk to executives about this transformation and ensure that the transformation is measured and set up in the mindset in which executives will respond.
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Scott Staples on Why Agile is Still Relevant
Recently InfoQ spoke to Scott Staples of IT services firm Mindtree on why he feels agile development is still relevant while the brand "agile" may not be, the underlying cause of many agile adoption failures and what is on the horizon "beyond agile"
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Stop Failing Fast in Innovation
In innovation the mantra "fail fast" is often used to explain that people should quickly try out ideas and then learn from the things that fail to develop new products and services. Some people challenged the need for failure and have come up with alternative approaches for effective innovation.
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Atlassian Launches JIRA 7 Platform with Three Standalone JIRA Editions
Development and collaboration software vendor Atlassian released version 7 of its project tracking application JIRA as three new standalone products: JIRA Core, JIRA Software and JIRA Service Desk. All three products are build atop a common platform to better serve non-technical business teams, development teams as well as IT and other service teams with an edition tailored to each team’s needs.
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Atlassian's Stash Data Center Offers High Availability and Scalability for Git
Atlassian recently released Stash Data Center, a highly available and horizontally scalable deployment option for its on-premises source code and Git repository management solution Stash. New nodes can be added without downtime to provide active-active clustering and instant scalability.
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Q&A with Scott Ambler on the Disciplined Agile Enterprise
“An agile enterprise is able to anticipate and respond swiftly to changes in the marketplace” says Scott Ambler. InfQ interviewed Scott about the reasons why agile projects are failing, how to increase budgets for building new systems, disciplined DevOps, harmonizing agile and lean, and on coaching for enterprise agility.