CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios?

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Storm Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In this essay I explain the reasoning behind these measures and why the practices that influence them, especially batch size, play such an important part in the often-overlooked foundation step of any Lean, Agile or DevOps transformation. Figure 1 Indicative figures showing positive jaws of DevOps metrics: releases vs incidents.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). Remember that these “units” are “viewed” by our users, who are largely professional software developers and programmers. What does this mean?

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LeanEssays

JANUARY 14, 2017

Two years ago, the employees at ING Netherlands headquarters – over 3,000 people from marketing, product management, channel management, and IT development – were told that their jobs had disappeared. After initial experiments in 2010, the IT organization put aside waterfall development in favor of agile teams.

Enterprise 112

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.

Software Review 91

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A List Apart

MAY 7, 2020

This was a time for developers to work on “whatever they wanted,” as it was framed. Dozens of people organized it, and every developer in the company stopped work to contribute to the effort. Dozens of people organized it, and every developer in the company stopped work to contribute to the effort. Create a Development Roadmap.

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