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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

If you have a document-oriented culture, kaizen will help you streamline your documents. If you have a blame-oriented culture, it will help you place blame more accurately. It’s a disruptive change, but the disruption is relatively brief: less than half a year. Get Management Buy-In. Counterintuively. probably not.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Invest in Change. You’ve figured out which investments your company needs to make. Understanding Change. The Satir Change Model Change is disruptive, and moving to Agile is no exception. Exactly how disruptive it is depends on how many teams are affected and how well you manage the change.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

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