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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Choose the zones that your organization both needs and is willing to pay for , as described in the “Choose Your Zones” section at the end of the previous chapter. In the West, it’s come to mean a process of continuous gradual improvement: constantly reviewing and improving your practices at all levels of the organization. probably not.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Exactly how disruptive it is depends on how many teams are affected and how well you manage the change. If you have one team that’s eager to try Agile with your organization’s full support, it doesn’t have to be a big deal. If you’re trying to change 50 teams in an organization that’s unfamiliar with Agile ideas.

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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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