My Team Said Goodbye to Tasks Forever

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My Team Said Goodbye to Tasks Forever

My Team Said Goodbye to Tasks Forever

As I mentioned in a previous blog about how to effectively implement agile, the success of an agile process directly depends on how easy it is to integrate into a daily work routine. I spent some time reviewing my own team’s agile practices looking for ways to make our process even more effective. After analyzing the pain points, I adjusted how we plan and track iterations by removing tasks entirely. Here are some of my observations and how we updated our processes to make them more natural.   Previously, our team had used a traditional approach to agile where we

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Implement Agile Effectively!

Implement Agile Effectively!

Don’t have process for the sake of process!  Make your process work for you! Agile methodologies have been around for quite a while.  Even after all these years, armed with multiple past experiences, it can still be difficult to transition a development group to use proper agile practices.  Whether you are interested in making your current agile practices better, or you are starting to implement them from scratch, here are a couple suggestions that will make your life simpler. First and most importantly, make sure the agile process you define works for you.  If the process that you try to

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Agile Cloud Apps Create Rapid Deployment

Agile Cloud Apps Create Rapid Deployment

Software Engineers Now Design For The Cloud Whenever cloud is mentioned, usually it is discussed in terms of the consumer’s benefits. Cloud applications allow end users access their data anywhere, collaborate more effectively, and so on. However, the cloud is seldom promoted for what it can do for an engineering organization. Gone are the troublesome, old days of trying to figure out what features are going to fit into a release. No more worrying about slipping a date and not shipping valuable features that clients want and need because of one unrelated bug. Once software engineering organizations embrace the cloud,

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