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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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Before There Was Management

LeanEssays

3] Another example: in a 2004 blog The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes , Christopher Allen noted that on-line communities tend to have 40 to 60 active members at any one time. Clearly the executive was talking about a different kind of team than we generally run into in agile software development.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. In other words, a bazaar-style hardware architecture was vastly superior to a cathedral-style architecture.)