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Does Continuous Improvement and Delivery Make You Agile?

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I try not to get involved in arguments – but when a debate started in the Dev Interrupted Discord about if exceptional continuous improvement (CI) or continuous delivery CD) makes a group agile or not, I had to jump in. I’ve helped build many high-performing teams with agility, and I know that neither CI/CD nor Scrum makes an organization Agile.

It’s Not What You Do, It’s How You Respond

Probably my favorite way I’ve ever heard someone describe agility was that it’s about moving away from believing we can predict and plan everything to sensing reality and responding to it instead.

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How to Game Dev Metrics

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What leads teams to game metrics within their organization?

On a recent episode of Dev Interrupted, I talked with agile expert Ray Elenteny, Principal Owner at Solutech Consulting, about how people game dev metrics and the underlying issues in culture & leadership that lead to it.

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Definition of Done: Best Practice to Succeed in Software Projects

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Dear editor, I would like to suspend publishing this my article for 3 weeks as it has a dependency on my article on another resource. Thank you for the understanding.

How do we know when a user story is « done? » Can we say that the user story is done when it is coded and all acceptance tests for it are passed? Business representatives may say yes, but they do not know all the peculiarities of software development. So, such criteria as quality are not fully visible to them. 

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Top 10 Project Managers to Follow on Twitter in 2018

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As a project manager, credible sources of information hold significant value in terms of knowledge acquisition. Aside from all the books and certifications, social media platforms are equally beneficial. One such platform to gain fantastic insights is Twitter. We’ve hunted down some of the top project managers that you need to follow on Twitter.

We’re all well aware of Twitter as a popular medium of gaining and sharing information. As we’re speaking, there are around 335 million active users utilizing the platform for exchanging information according to their interests.

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What if We Do the Daily Scrum Over Slack?

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I’ve been practicing Agile methodologies for some time now. The most common ceremony that I’ve seen Agile teams do is stand-up also known as daily Scrum meeting.

I’ll not go into what a stand up or daily Scrum is and the value it brings. I appreciate the value it brings and would encourage teams to follow this ceremony religiously.

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Agile Delivery in Large Teams

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Over the past year, I had the chance to be quite close to a significant project in terms of scope and team size. All in all, over 100 people were involved, with more than 60 working full time on the project.

Out of those 60 people, over 40 were involved in engineering, while the others worked as the Technical & Solution Architects, Business Analysis, User Experience Engineers, and Project Managers. Out of the 40 engineers, over 60% of the team was involved in mobile and frontend implementations while the rest were focused on backend and QA automation.

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Agile: My Experience

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Agile brings a lot of benefits, provided it is used in the right way. I thought I’d share my experiences. Feel free to comment with your thoughts and experiences!

Why Agile

Agility (the ability to move quickly and easily) helps in making software development lightweight, easy, simple, minimizing the process and overheads, allowing you to meet and beat the market.

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