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Shift Left but Get It First-Time Right: An Interview with Shankar Konda[interview] In this interview, Shankar Konda from TCS discusses the long-term viability of the shift-left movement, how to achieve the best returns when abiding by shift-left principles, and how DevOps and continuous integration fit in to the shift-left world. |
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Agile Techniques for the Multitaskers in All of Us[article] Multitasking can sabotage your productivity, but with all our different responsibilities, it's often a necessary evil. However, your work quality and quantity don’t have to suffer. These agile techniques can help you avoid interruptions, organize your to-do list, and regain focus after switching tasks. |
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A Prescription for Your Team’s Agile Transition[article] When teams are transitioning to agile, making so many changes all at once can be hard. But just like with your health, in order to see progress, you have to commit, and when something starts working, you have to keep it up. Following this prescription should cure a team's agile ills and get its program on the road to recovery. |
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Accelerate Testing and Development with Continuous Delivery: An Interview with Naga Jayadev[interview]
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In this interview, Naga Jayadev of CA Technologies digs into continuous delivery, continuous testing, DevOps, and virtualization. He explains what he does at CA Technologies, the trends when it comes to testing, and the value of velocity within your development lifecycle. |
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The Keys to a Successful Software Team: An Interview with Andy Kaufman[interview]
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In this interview, Andy Kaufman, the founder of the Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, explains why team chemistry is often an afterthought, how enthusiasm can often trump skill, and how to deal with conflict. |
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Demystifying DevOps: Capital One’s Journey toward Continuous Delivery[presentation]
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Many companies are either talking about DevOps or already working toward adoption. Books and conferences around DevOps abound, and it seems that everyone is hiring DevOps engineers. What impact does adopting DevOps have on a company and its people? What does DevOps look like from the... |
Adam Auerbach
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Transform Organizational Culture for DevOps Success[presentation]
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An organization’s ability to adopt a DevOps approach for software delivery often hinges on a cultural transformation that may be more difficult than technology issues. The keys to success are change supported from the top down, combined with people on the front line who are willing to... |
Al Wagner
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The Lean Agile Portfolio[presentation]
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Agile practices continue to improve as organizations move forward with adoption and adaption. However, as they move forward, they often run into daunting challenges—coordinating projects with highly complex requirements and interdependencies; navigating highly political environments... |
Jamie Mades
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Agile Requirements—From Breadth to Depth[presentation]
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Requirements elicitation and documentation can be frustrating in an agile process. Some interpret the Agile Manifesto statement “working software over comprehensive documentation” to mean that no requirements documentation is warranted because the code documents the requirements. Others... |
Ken Pugh
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Scaling Agile: Remembering Tolstoy’s Unhappy Family Analogy[presentation]
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While Agile has become mainstream at the team level with much research and practical experience, scaling agile to the enterprise is a topic of increasing interest and practice—with some successes and some spectacular failures. As Tolstoy wrote, “Happy families are all alike; each unhappy... |
Mariya Breyter
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Lead Teams that Deliver the Goods[presentation]
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In software development—and in many life activities—success often depends on how well we collaborate with our team and our stakeholders. Yet getting a group of people to truly work in partnership—let alone self-organize—is a daunting challenge. And we’re often left with lingering... |
Andy Kaufman
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Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Large-Scale Agile Transformation[presentation]
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A few years ago everyone wanted to know how to convince their executives to go agile. Today, executives are asking their teams how they'll make the transformation. We have made significant progress changing the hearts and minds of senior leadership, but executives now demand a greater... |
Mike Cottmeyer
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Removing the Silos: When Agile, Lean, and DevOps Aren’t Enough[presentation]
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Your organization has adopted some combination of agile, lean, and DevOps practices, yet you have a sinking feeling that it’s not working the way everyone hoped it would. You’re wondering if it’s because you work for a very large organization and all this talk about small, cross-functional... |
Betty Zakheim
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Enable Your Workers … You’ll Be Amazed What They Can Do[presentation]
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It’s as true today as it was in 1986 when W. Edwards Deming published Out of the Crisis and wrote, “Remove barriers that rob people … of their right to pride of workmanship.” Companies everywhere implement processes, hire staff, and install tools to help them meet their business objectives. |
Bob Jarvis
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Teamwork Tools: Movement Games for Collaboration and Creativity[presentation]
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Are you looking for new ways to invigorate your teams? Do retrospectives seem stale? Do story breakdown meetings feel flat? On the other hand, maybe your teams are humming and you’re looking for additional variety. The research is clear—movement matters, and play stimulates creativity. |
Andrew Smith
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