This is a guest post by Boris Gloger (@borisgloger) A couple of days ago I commented on Matthias' post about the myth that Scrum forces a team to release new functionality only after a sprint is finished while Kanban would is more flexible. I wanted to know the difference between Scrum and Kanban, and why … Continue reading Scrum or Kanban – It does not matter
Month: May 2011
The three essentials of any agile process
In the heat of introducing agile practices like daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives, unit testing, or defining "Done", you can get easily overwhelmed by all the new and shiny ideas. It's a real danger that implementing these new practices creates huge overheads, slows you down, and frustrates the team. They forget why you actually introduced agile … Continue reading The three essentials of any agile process
DevOps Driven Demand
This is a guest post from John Willis (@botchagalupe) What if DevOps created more defects, tickets, requests, and more overall work? Would that be a good thing or bad. Let’s take a look. Information Technology Asymmetry Let’s face it, IT has historically had an asymmetric relationship between it’s suppliers and consumers. In fact one of … Continue reading DevOps Driven Demand
Scrum vs Continuous Deployment or why Scrum falls short for web applications
Product development needs consistency The basic idea of Scrum is to create a safe and change-free environment to enable a team to concentrate on the planned development tasks. The team plans out a sprint of typically two weeks and the idea is that they work uninterrupted during this period. This process really helps to get … Continue reading Scrum vs Continuous Deployment or why Scrum falls short for web applications
Prerequisites for Continuous Deployment
Although we've skirted around the edges of Continuous Deployment on this blog, we haven't really gone into any details. The main reason for this is simply that neither Matthias nor myself have ever continuously deployed to our production environments. How hard could it be? Well, like with most engineering endeavors, it's about 99% preparation and … Continue reading Prerequisites for Continuous Deployment
