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How do you know DevOps is working?

CloudGeometry

Twenty years into the Agile Revolution , the virtuous cycle (time boxing, scrum, kanban, iterative discovery-and-development) pays dividends all around. It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Yet I believe there’s a new, more significant challenge ahead.

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How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture

DevOps.com

If you have been in a scrum team (or even an agile software development team), you most certainly have had or heard about sprint retrospectives or gone through them. The post How to Rethink Sprint Retrospectives to Shape a Better Culture appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

That said, if I don’t summarize those labels, you will look elsewhere anyway, so here we go: Squad : effectively a Scrum team with a new name. Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another.

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Cross-Functional Teams in Product Development: Definition, Principles and Examples

Altexsoft

In practice, cross-functional teams often use Agile development methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , XP , etc. In the meantime, a developer can work with a QA engineer to identify and fix the bugs or issues that pop up during testing. Software engineer. Quality assurance engineer.

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant. I guess is what I would say. That’s great.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

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. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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Lean coffee “cheat sheet”

Xebia

Lean coffee is an incredible format. It’s a simple yet powerful way to discuss important topics in a team without any upfront costs. Yet, this format is surprisingly often unknown to the people I work with. What is a lean coffee? Let’s have a look at the official definition: Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting.

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