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Agile and Late! End-to-End Delivery Metrics to Improve Your Predictability

Agile teams may need to deliver milestones expected at a certain time, so will need to forecast or risk being accused of being “Agile and late”. There are metrics that relate to the “Logical Six” potential sources of delay which are key to improve forecasting accuracy. The metrics can used to create a Root Cause RAG Progress Report – to share a more accurate forecast and clear mitigations.

Charlie Ponsonby
on Nov 01, 2019
Java

Java Feature Spotlight: Local Variable Type Inference

In Java Futures at QCon New York, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz took us on a whirlwind tour of some recent and future features in the Java Language. In this article, he dives into Local Variable Type Inference.

Brian Goetz
on Nov 01, 2019
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud as Catalysts for Business Performance

The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps presents the capabilities and practices that contribute to software development and organizational performance. This year, DevOps has crossed the chiasm, while a well-implemented cloud computing strategy helps deliver superior results contributing to speed, stability, and availability.

Shaaron A Alvares Nicole Forsgren
on Oct 30, 2019
.NET

Angular & ASP.NET Core 3.0 - Deep Dive

While there are many advantages to using Angular for building SPAs, some parts including trivial, static content such as Contact As, Licensing, etc. don’t need the extra complexity. In this article Evgueni Tsygankov shows how to build reusable Angular components that can be hosted in ASP.NET Core pages, allowing you to choose the right tool for each page.

Evgueni Tsygankov
on Oct 29, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Thinking Remote

The book Thinking Remote - inspiration for leaders and distributed teams by Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss provides lots of ideas for managers and leaders who are working with remote or distributed teams. It can be used as a handbook for leaders of virtual teams, helping them to deal with the leadership challenges and making the transition to remote working.

Ben Linders Pilar Orti Maya Middlemiss
on Oct 28, 2019
Culture & Methods

Categorise Unsolved Problems in Agile Development: Premature & Foreseeable

Productivity decline and technical debt, as often seen in agile development, can be prevented by separating unsolved problems into premature and foreseeable. It shifts the discussion about unsolved problems from importance to likelihood. With small but essential adjustments, agile can be kept sustainable. With this insight, developer-architect differences and team psychology gaps can be bridged.

Bas Groot
on Oct 25, 2019
DevOps

Containers in 2019: They're Calling it a [Hypervisor] Comeback

The 2019 news cycle within the "cloud native" corner of the world has been abuzz with a word previously thought outmoded by the rapid rise of containers: “hypervisor.” This article explores the motivations behind this, focusing on security, user experience, and isolation flexibility, and concludes by speculating on the future direction of development within the cloud and container industry.

Phil Estes
on Oct 24, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book: The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era

The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era by Jens P. Flanding, Genevieve M. Grabman, and Sheila Q. Cox explains how organizations can achieve competitive advantage through their speed and flexibility in adopting technology. It prescribes a change management approach for adapting workplace behaviors to market-dominating technology to maximize its benefits.

Ben Linders Jens Flanding Genevieve Grabman Sheila Cox
on Oct 23, 2019
Cloud

Using Docker Application Packages to Deliver Apps across Teams

In this article, we will look at how the CNAB packaging format provides application providers and developers with a way of installing a multi-component application into a distributed computing environment, supporting many executable units, and makes it easy to deliver apps across teams, organizations and marketplaces.

Karthikeyan Shanmugam
on Oct 22, 2019
Culture & Methods

The Current and Future State of Testing: a Conversation with Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin talks about the current and future state of testing, how testing works in agile environments, the value testers bring to DevOps, testing machine learning and where testing is headed. Testing is a communication activity and communication skills are vital to successfully leveraging testing skills and knowledge in modern software development.

Xiaoqian Geng Lisa Crispin
on Oct 21, 2019
DevOps

SLOs Are the API for Your Engineering Team

SLOs provide a simple common language for evaluating risk in terms of error budgets. SLOs save everyone involved both time and energy, which you can redirect toward more important things, like keeping your customers happy.

Charity Majors
on Oct 19, 2019
Culture & Methods

Psychological Safety: Models and Experiences

This paper discusses psychological safety that refers to a climate in which people are comfortable being (and expressing) themselves. A proposed model (called S.A.F.E.T.Y.) is discussed briefly, and the article proposes a path to how we can use this model in agile adoptions related to teams and organizations.

Fabio Armani Giulia Armani
on Oct 18, 2019