Even today, in the 21st century, it's rare for CEOs to steer their companies into agile waters. Change is hard, scary and leads into the unknown and changing an entire organization compounds all these fears. But, there are subtle, yet significant, ways in which you can organize your own work to be much more agile. … Continue reading Stealthily Introducing Agile from the Bottom Up
Month: March 2011
How Digital Agile Management Tools Make You Blind (And How A Physical Kanban Board Can Help You See Again)
We've been using PivotalTracker for years to manage our agile software development process. It works like a charm for us. Whenever an idea comes up, we enter it into Tracker as an Epic (no matter how rough and abstract it might be). When the time comes to start implementing it, we usually break it down … Continue reading How Digital Agile Management Tools Make You Blind (And How A Physical Kanban Board Can Help You See Again)
Poor Man’s Automated Snapshots for EC2
We've invested quite some time in our WordPress Micro instance now. It's definitely past the playing-around, prototype phase, so let's get some automated backups in place. But, since we already suffered to get the EC2 API Tools installed, the hard part is actually done. Let's get a couple of weekly cronjobs setup: bitnami@awo:~$ crontab -l … Continue reading Poor Man’s Automated Snapshots for EC2
Devops in a Regulated Mainframe Environment
Striving for real world experiences with agile, kanban, lean, and devops I ran a series of email interviews. Today I want to share the answers of Manu Khronis, NRB, Belgium. Please tell me a little about your current situation, your team and your job I am responsible for IT change management at Network Resource Belgium, … Continue reading Devops in a Regulated Mainframe Environment
