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Data-Driven Decision Making – Product Development with Continuous Delivery Indicators

The Data-Driven Decision Making Series provides an overview of how the three main activities in the software delivery - Product Management, Development and Operations - can be supported by data-driven decision making. In Development, Continuous Delivery Indicators can be used to steer the efficiency of the development process.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Feb 26, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Machine Learning

The book Agile Machine Learning by Eric Carter and Matthew Hurst describes how the guiding principles of the Agile Manifesto have been used by machine learning teams in data projects. It explores how to apply agile practices for dealing with the unknowns of data and inferencing systems, using metrics as the customer.

Ben Linders Matthew Hurst
on Feb 12, 2020
Culture & Methods

Three Key Success Factors for Improving Test Automation Outcomes

Test automation is crucial in the DevOps world and vitally important even if not taking a DevOps approach, and good test automation requires careful thought and design from the architecture onward. Tests need to be fully automated, and that automation needs to be stable; no test cases should fail for reasons other than issues in the system(s) under test.

Hans Buwalda Tuan Truong
on Jan 29, 2020
Culture & Methods

The Evolution of Lean Thinking - Transitioning from Lean Thinking to FLOW Thinking

The Flow System provides a re-imagined system for organizations to understand complexity, embrace teamwork, and autonomous team-based leadership structures. It is a holistic FLOW-based approach to delivering Customer 1st Value. It is built on a foundation of TPS and LEAN, plus a new triple helix structure known as the DNA of Organizations.

Nigel Thurlow
on Dec 02, 2019
Culture & Methods

Using Kanban with Overbård to Manage Development of Red Hat JBoss EAP

As planning the work for Red Hat JBoss EAP became harder and harder, Red Hat decided to adopt Kanban to make their development process more manageable, while maintaining a very high level of quality. They introduced Kanban in their distributed team and developed their own Jira add-on for visualizing the work, and added parallel tasks to their Kanban cards to simplify the workflow.

Ben Linders Dimitris Andreadis
on Nov 27, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Team Topologies

The book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais shows how to arrange teams within an organization to enable effective software delivery. It describes four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns, and dives into the responsibility boundaries of teams and how teams can communicate or interact with other teams.

Ben Linders Manuel Pais Matthew Skelton
on Nov 11, 2019
Architecture & Design

Testing Microservices: Six Case Studies with a Combination of Testing Techniques - Part 3

This article presents six real world use cases of testing microservice-based applications, and demonstrates how a combination of testing techniques can be evaluated, chosen, and implemented.

Wojciech Bulaty Liam Williams
on Nov 06, 2019
Culture & Methods

Velocity and Better Metrics: Q&A with Doc Norton

Velocity is not good for predictions or diagnostics, argued Doc Norton at Experience Agile 2019. It's a lagging indicator of a complex system which is too volatile to know what our future performance will be; it isn’t stable enough to be used reliably. We can use Monte Carlo simulation for forecasting, and cumulative flow diagrams to track work, see changes in scope, and spot bottlenecks.

Ben Linders Doc Norton
on Oct 16, 2019
DevOps

Q&A on the Book Continuous Delivery in Java

The book Continuous Delivery in Java by Daniel Bryant and Abraham Marin-Perez was released nearly ten years after the original Continuous Delivery book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble, and more than 20 years after Java’s first release. Q&A with the authors to better understand from their experience why a book on Continuous Delivery specifically for Java and the JVM ecosystem was needed.

Manuel Pais Daniel Bryant Abraham Marín Pérez
on Sep 15, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Right to Left: The Digital Leader's Guide to Lean and Agile

The book Right to Left: The Digital Leader's Guide to Lean and Agile by Mike Burrows explains why we should focus on the outcomes, and how working backwards from those can help us keep this focus so that the needs of customers are better served. It takes a right-to-left view on existing Agile and Lean methods, bringing a needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to digital delivery.

Ben Linders Mike Burrows
on Aug 19, 2019
Development

Unlocking Continuous Testing: The Four Best Practices Necessary for Success

While the majority of organizations have enthusiastically embraced agile planning and development, most still find themselves unable to effectively implement continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. There are four best practices to help overcome this: focus on test quality, keep your tests short and atomic, test across multiple platforms, and leverage parallelization.

Lubos Parobek
on Jul 31, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Pipeline Driven Organization - Enabling True Continuous Delivery

Many organizations try to implement continuous integration or continuous delivery, but they get stuck in the process; too many human bottlenecks standing between the pipelines. By teaching pipelines to make better decisions and offloading human judgements onto the pipelines we can have the pipelines make decisions all the way up to production to create a true continuous delivery mechanism.

Roy Osherove
on Jul 19, 2019