Have you ever attended a 1-hour Daily Scrum before? If so, I have a feeling you wish to avoid those types of meetings if at all possible! Many teams that are new to Scrum begin their Scrum journey by meeting daily, which is a fine place to start. However, most…
As most Agile practitioners are aware, the Scrum framework has been around since the 1950s. Expressed in various forms and concepts, Scrum was formally documented and published in 2001 as the Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Since 2004, I have been a student of Scrum, and continue…
As you travel down the DevOps path, one of the most avoided topics is often security. Security is usually a touchy point because, more than likely, it will add work somewhere that someone didn’t want to do. But this doesn’t have to be the case. As we grow our systems…
Recently, one of the teams that I began to work with was struggling to deliver a working product in a consistent manner. The Scrum Master had consulted me on a number of occasions in effort to resolve this issue that had been going on for months. According to the Scrum…
Applications are no longer simple two-tier architectures. Back then, application monitoring was easy compared with today. But as the shift to the cloud happened, applications became more efficient and effective. Application architectures now include many tiers across multiple locations and sometimes in multiple clouds.
Have you ever been asked one of the following questions?
- What’s the value of adopting Agile?
- What’s the ROI for Agile?
- Why should we bother with Agile if it can’t save us money?
How do you typically respond to these tough questions? …
PWC estimates that about 28% of agile projects are more successful than traditional ones. Agile budgeting could be the difference for your organization to stay ahead of the competition or even lose relevance in the ever-changing modern business world.
The change to a flexible budgeting method allows an organization to…
As more organizations move from on-prem to cloud infrastructure, IT teams are finding that traditional monitoring solutions just aren’t getting the job done. Many monitoring vendors have moved beyond monitoring to observability. Sadly, some are doing nothing more than putting a good spin on the same old monitoring solution.
In November 2020, the creators of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, announced the release of the updated Scrum Guide which was the first update since 2017. I don’t know how everyone feels about this update, but personally, I felt that this refreshed version was long overdue, and I definitely…
