This is a guest post by Robert Dempsey, CEO & Founder of Atlantic Dominion Solutions. He helps clients with agile training and builds products like scrum'd. I wish I had known about Kanban when I was a network administrator. It would have helped me immensely in terms of prioritization of work and making everything we … Continue reading Using Kanban For DevOps Projects
Month: March 2010
Rethinking code reuse with Modularity for Ruby
This is a guest post by our friends over at makandra, a cool Ruby on Rails development shop. Today they announce a great new Ruby gem for dealing with separating concerns in your ActiveRecord models. Reusing code is hard. But although we knew that high-level components don't work, we found ourselves rewriting similar code again … Continue reading Rethinking code reuse with Modularity for Ruby
DevOps: Why Silos Suck And How To Break Them
Divide and conquer, Caesar's strategy to break huge problems down into smaller parts, is an outdated model for structuring teams and organizations. Breaking teams apart by area like development, QA, operations, product management, etc, creates silo like divisions of labor. Unfortunately, these divisions create so many "walls of confusion" between the silos that your speed … Continue reading DevOps: Why Silos Suck And How To Break Them
Stop. Reflect. Adapt. The 3 Steps to Stop Writing Bad Code
Writing software that doesn't suck is hard - even for the pros. The problem doesn't lie in solving a hard problem, but in creating a solution which is easy to understand, robust, and easy to change. A lot of problems in teams and organizations stem from bad code. Bad code ruins the motivation of your … Continue reading Stop. Reflect. Adapt. The 3 Steps to Stop Writing Bad Code
20 DevOps guys you should follow
DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between agile software development and operations. The DevOps tribe is a growing group of people practicing a new way of combining development and system administration for more speed, quality, revenues, and fun. The DevOps Tribe Here is a list of some of the most active guys in … Continue reading 20 DevOps guys you should follow
Agile Links From The Archives
One finding from our survey was that a lot of you want to read more about agile basics. As most of you haven't followed Agile Web Operations since Day One, here's a list of the top three posts about agile and kanban: Agile Is About Feedback, Not About Fancy Practices Kanban vs. Iterative Development Kanban … Continue reading Agile Links From The Archives
