December 2009

Tailoring Your Munin Installation

by Matthias Marschall on December 21, 2009 · 0 comments

After following Dan’s tutorial on installing munin on your servers, you already get the benefits of munin’s default plugins. You have graphs showing your CPU, RAM, I/O, as well as MySQL, Exim, and quite some other stats. But most of the time you run some additional software which you also want to montior.

Sub-optimization Kills Customer Value

by Matthias Marschall on December 15, 2009 · 0 comments

When we start optimizing our processes, it happens quite often that we only optimize our area of influence instead of addressing the whole process of creating customer value. When we’re responsible for a software development or an operations team, we tend to optimize the process of our team. We adapt agile practices and our teams [...]

Agile Is About Feedback, Not About Fancy Practices

by Matthias Marschall on December 9, 2009 · 1 comment

Too often people complain that to become agile they need to start using iterations, fancy story points and time boxes even though it simply does not fit the way they work. But, that’s not true. Agile is much simpler than that. And much harder. In essence, agile is about fast feedback. But the feedback needs [...]