Agile teams often struggle with purely technical tasks. They just don't know how to translate technical necessity into business value. This makes it difficult to prioritize technical tasks against User Stories. In this article, I want to show you how to transform the hidden value of technical tasks into visible business value to ease prioritization … Continue reading How to translate “business value” of things that are technically important
Month: April 2011
Free Cloudkick Monitoring for EC2
For my final post in freely acquiring, maintaining and monitoring a virtual root server, I'd like to introduce you to Cloudkick. They've had a major marketing campaign going on after being acquired by the folks from Rackspace. I actually clicked through one of their ads while browsing some headlines on Slashdot. Besides free basic checks … Continue reading Free Cloudkick Monitoring for EC2
DevOps Entrenched – Tide Begins to Turn
I've always seen it as a battle. Maybe it's the soldier in me or just the willingness to fight for my beliefs. Either way, we are winning and the IT industry will never be the same. Developers and Sysadmins are joining forces and forming "Delivery Teams" - working together to ship high quality products to … Continue reading DevOps Entrenched – Tide Begins to Turn
