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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Tech Infrastructure != This is a slightly broader definition of “front-end” that we normally hear from, say, web app developers. I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Value Stream. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Software Cost Accounting

Herding Cats

But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. There are two types of software that are developed for a business: 1) internal-use software, and 2) software developed to be sold, leased or marketed (“software to be sold”). CAPEX and OPEX.

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Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part One

Leading Agile

In the 1960s, it was considered a baseline good practice in software engineering to test your code as you wrote it. The pioneers of software development in that era were proponents of various levels of testing; some advocated “unit” testing and some didn’t, but all recognized the importance of testing code.

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Slack, Flow, and Continuous Improvement

Leading Agile

In Lean terms, what you’re experiencing in those games (and possibly in your real work, too) is a high level of work-in-process or WIP. Controlling WIP is the primary “knob” we can turn to manage flow in a process. Teams using other sorts of process models use some number of days or weeks as the time interval.

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How to Become an IT Project Manager Without Experience

PM Basics

With all infrastructure, it may cost anywhere from $500 million to $1.9 You’ll need to Select and Establish Processes. When you know the benefits of project management, it’s easier to invest time in learning the basics processes, tools, and approaches. Also, it will help you to gain small quick wins in the process.

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Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part Four

Leading Agile

This may be an unfamiliar approach for readers who don’t come from an application development background. It’s one of the development skills that system administrators and infrastructure engineers are picking up from the software engineering world as devops gains ground in the industry.

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Build a CI/CD Pipeline in the Cloud: Part Three

Leading Agile

” This principle applies equally to software development. Now we’re going to do software development work. The specs are executable, and they will “fail” (display error messages) when the application does not behave according to expectations. cd playservice mkdir app. mkdir spec.