Hi Folks, Many of us have been heads-down with LSE development (and admittedly a bit behind our planned power curve), so we haven’t communicated as frequently as we would like. But here’s a quick update: We’ve received a lot of feedback about the evolution…
There are several teaming strategies that you can choose to adopt when it comes to getting development professionals and operations professionals to work together. Starting with the least effective and working our way to the most effective, they are: Production…
The following was originally published in Mike Cohn's monthly newsletter. If you like what you're reading, sign up to have this content delivered to your inbox weeks before it's posted on the blog, here. Having a “definition of done” has…
There are several disaster mitigation strategies that IT departments may choose to adopt: Disaster planning. Disciplined organizations will plan for operational disasters. Potential disasters include servers going down, network connectivity going down, power outages, failed solution deployments, failed infrastructure deployments,…
Three months ago I stumbled upon a question which needed an anwer: Could Lego be used for business strategy development? I just had to go to London to find out the answer. With a group of 12 I spent the…
Here is a short article for Zephyr’s guest blog Scrum recommends 3 roles, the Product Owner, Scrum Master and the team. There is no dedicated role as a tester (or QA) if you are following pure Scrum. Agile also recommends…
In addition to the general strategies described in a previous posting, there are several common development practices that support Disciplined DevOps: Canary tests. A canary test is a small experiment where new functionality is deployed to a subset of end users so…
In my ScrumMaster classes I always make the point that Scrum is a general purpose framework that can be applied to projects of all sorts. I’ve seen it applied to building construction, marketing, legal cases, families, restaurant renovations, and, of…
This article is the third in a series on agile ceremonies. Learn how we do sprint planning and sprint retrospectives. In the late afternoon on Fridays you can often hear clapping and cheering throughout the Atlassian office. Here, we work hard, play hard,…
Projects become late one day at a time because small impediments occur and front line workers are not empowered to resolve those impediments on the spot. Those small impediments turn into day long or longer delays. Once that day is…