Tags: Agile, Planning, Process Improvement
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
A Survivor’s Guide to Cloud Outages
When it comes to hosting cloud services, there is one ever-present worry. Will the cloud go down? It’s bound to happen at some point although it should be a very rare occurrence. In the current high tech world of service uptime agreements that range from 99.9% uptime all the way up to 99.999% uptime, reaction to cloud outages is critical. The way you react can mean the difference between a graceful recovery or highly upset customers. There is no way to positively say that an outage will never occur. So let’s discuss how the situation could be handled so that
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
-
-
-
-
/ 0 Comments