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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

How to Be Agile. Choose one of the rough edges, make an educated guess about how to improve, observe what happens, and repeat. Your sponsor and other allies will help you understand how to format your proposal, help you refine it, and promote it to the economic buyer. The VP liked what I had to say. Then customize.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Here’s how they apply to Agile: 1 Steven Smith has a good article on the Satir model at [link] that includes tips for helping team members through each stage. Everyone knows what’s expected of them and how to do their job. They push for change. Help people understand how to do their job in the changed environment.

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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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