Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. But what if we told you there’s a whole class of DevOps considerations that no one is talking about that’s secretly killing your ability to unleash the potential of Agile? We’ll also discuss the lack of automation.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. What is an Agile transformation?

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

It would be easy (and wrong) to classify all construction projects as candidates for traditional approaches, and all IT projects as needing an agile approach. Designing something is typically a consensus-gathering and problem-solving exercise. The custom software development was easy to plan (but not easy to do).

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Leading Agile

JUNE 5, 2018

In Part 1, we summarized the goals of the exercise: To develop a microservice and set up a CI/CD pipeline in the cloud without using any locally-installed development tools. Now, your friendly neighborhood Agile Coach has probably hammered home the point that every piece of work the team carries out must deliver customer value.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

Preparing test data to exercise applications prior to deployment. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. It’s not okay, for instance, for an individual to perform both the programming and the testing of a software feature.

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