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AoAD2 Chapter: DevOps (introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. That continued even after I started practicing Agile. Although Agile teams are meant to be cross-functional, operations were handled by other people—people I never met, and rarely even knew the names of.

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An Interview

LeanEssays

You don’t do agile to do agile. There's lots of talk now around scaled Agile frameworks such as SAFe, Nexus, LESS, etc. Every large agile framework that I know of is an excuse to avoid the difficult and challenging work of sorting out the organization’s system architecture so that small agile teams can work independently.

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What is SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)?

Openxcell

System Design: System Design: A study of the requirement specifications from the first phase and the system design is developed. This design helps in specifying the hardware and system requirements and defines the overall system architecture. Agile Model. What is Agile Methodology?

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Agile makes a challenging demand of its programmers: every week or two, programmers should finish four to ten customer-centric stories. I’m focusing on application architecture here. Second Edition cover.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

In chapter 3 (Agility and Leanness) he introduces DevOps, a set of technical practices based on cross-functional teams and heavy automation that effectively does away with the tradeoff between speed and control – you can have both. From rigid and risk-adverse to agile, experimental, and adaptable.