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Agile Operations in the Enterprise

We've been hearing about agile operations quite a bit lately. There have been some good talks, articles and a few lively debates. It has even been called the "secret sauce for startups". What about those of us who aren't in a startup or a Web 2.0 company? Is agile operations something that can really work inside a large, established enterprise?

Michael Nygard
on May 21, 2010
SOA Strategy and Spline Tactics

In this article, Michael Poulin discusses agility-to-market changes that IT can gain using a strategy oriented onto the services. Using concepts of service-orientation as the major construct of the technical product portfolio, accompanied by a techniques he calls Spline Tactics, he examines how businesses can achieve strategic agility.

Michael Poulin
on Mar 02, 2010
Agile – A Way of Life and Pragmatic Use of Authority

Vinay Aggarwal shares many instances in life where authority is needed and lack of authority allows for extremely costly mistakes. He then explicitly suggests where authority could and should be used in Agile environments.

Vinay Aggarwal
on Feb 08, 2010
The Meme Lifecycle

Julian Everett and Chris Matts describe an IT business case as a meme - one that is competing in the complex ecosystem that constitutes a market sector and show its implications. By taking this view of a business then an organization's short and long term strategies change and we get a completely different view of how and why current development practices exist and persist.

Julian Everett Chris Matts
on Jan 22, 2010
Scrum And Strategy

If Scrum is all about short term, how then do the strategy folks work in such an ecosystem? More importantly, how does it help business leaders make and live up to important commitments? Good questions, but there aren’t easy enough answers. Doesn’t all this make strategy and Scrum look like the two poles of a magnet, or even further – the two extremes of the planet?

Mukund Srinivasan
on Dec 15, 2009
"Flirting" With Your Customers

All over the world, there are classes that teach people how to flirt. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. Flirting means connecting with others, and connecting is the key to good communication. That is what the first principal of the Agile Manifesto is all about.

Jenni (Dow) Jepsen
on Nov 20, 2009
Overcoming Technical Challenges for Adopting Agile Methods in the Enterprise

This article touches upon challenges to adopting agile methods within the enterprise and provided strategies for addressing them. Set up development environments in a consistent fashion using automated scripts and checklists, facilitate automated testing and continuous integration by using standard tooling and test data transparency, and ensure a stricter criteria for the done definition.

Vijay Narayanan
on Nov 09, 2009
Creating and Extending Apache Wicket Web Applications

Apache Wicket is a powerful, light-weight component-based web application framework with strong separation of presentation and business logic. It enables you to create quality Web 2.0 applications which are easy to test, debug and support.

Krzysztof Śmigielski
on Nov 02, 2009
Agile Japan 2009

Agile Japan 2009 was held in Tokyo on 22 April 2009. The event drew over 200 participants under the slogan of “developing the next-generation software development leaders.” This was the first full-scale event on Agile held in Japan with support from Agile Alliance.

Yasuo Maeda Takafumi Noguchi Kenji Hiranabe
on Oct 28, 2009
Improving the Performance of Automatic Configuration Management Processes by Encouraging Human Intervention

In this case study, the pattern of automatic processes interlaced with human intervention provided bwin with an instrument to raise process efficiency in CM drastically. Furthermore, successes of the incorporation of human factors into change management was an increased visibility and appreciation of the context and importance of change amongst team members and stakeholders across the company.

Robert Schwegler
on Oct 13, 2009
Burndown Analysis for Managing Productivity & Schedules

Managing the productivity and the schedules on a project is always a big challenge due to the complexities involved in taking the decisions fast. We attempt to use the “Burndown” information to address this issue. We show how a burndown chart comes in handy when a Project team is faced with the tough questions on the issues pertaining to Schedule, Resource Management and Productivity.

Ramanathan Sathianarayanan Bharadwaj Velamakanni
on Sep 15, 2009
The Role of Project Managers in Agile

Agile, as per books does not talk of role of manager but talks of a coach/facilitator. This article first explains the role of project manager in general in any industry and then tries to map it with the role of coach/facilitator in Agile. During this discussion, the article also tries to widen the scope of being a coach/facilitator.

Vinay Aggarwal
on Sep 02, 2009