I really love working in small batches as it ensures timely feedback and fast realization of customer value. Usually, we release two to three times a week - each release featuring only a handful of user stories. While I got used to working in this mode over the last couple of years, it's really impressive … Continue reading Relaunching your website – the last excuse for a big bang release
Category: Kanban & Agile
Four short links: 22 Mar 2009
Agile and ITIL, agile sys admins, why to work in small batches and how to handle bugs in an agile context - the topics for todays four short links. Agile and ITIL: A Powerful Combination (Joe Pearson, PM Hut) - I’ve also given a lot of thought on how to join the lean values of … Continue reading Four short links: 22 Mar 2009
Dump your issue tracking system – get agile!
It's a sad reality. Most IT departments are drowning in a sea of unresolved trouble tickets. Every staff member does her best to keep afloat by working off issue after issue from the never ending stream of trouble tickets. Motivation and quality plummet because, in such a work mode, people tend to work alone feel … Continue reading Dump your issue tracking system – get agile!
System Configurations + Code Revisions = Continuous Integration FTW!
This is a guest post by Patrick Debois, the author of JEDI: Just Enough Developed Infrastructure. I stumbled across Patrick early last year while searching desperately for some relevant topics on "agile operations". One amusing, yet poignant, hit was the lost use cases of Operations. Agile Web Operations didn't even exist at the time, but … Continue reading System Configurations + Code Revisions = Continuous Integration FTW!
Four Agile Posts Everyone Should Read
Today, I want to share some of my favorite blog posts about agile with you. Without further ado, here they are: How Do Story Points Relate to Hours? - One recurring question I get asked when talking about agile (and specifically when estimating in Story Points) is how those things relate. Mike Cohn does a … Continue reading Four Agile Posts Everyone Should Read
Visibility Builds Trust
Last week, the CTO of a partner company came over to me and asked: "Hey Matthias, do you have any benchmarks on how many commits your developers do each day? And how many lines of code they produce? I would love to compare the performance of our teams to be able to show my CEO … Continue reading Visibility Builds Trust
Introducing Your Team to Agile Using Pivotal Tracker
Last week I held my first meeting at NetDoktor, introducing the rest of the company to both what I'm doing and how I organize my work. Of course, I'd dropped the 'agile' word around the office from time to time and, suprisingly, most everyone had some idea of what it meant. Sure, it was some … Continue reading Introducing Your Team to Agile Using Pivotal Tracker
A Simple Checklist To Multiply Productivity
Maybe this sounds familiar to you: To maximize advertising revenues, it is necessary to constantly optimize ad placements, ad layouts and ad formats used on your site. This leads to a flood of really small user stories, which are often written like this: Please put 3 AFS ads after the first search result, 3 ads … Continue reading A Simple Checklist To Multiply Productivity
A Luxury Problem: How Emerging Iterations Eat Team Commitment For Breakfast
We've managed our complete development with Pivotal Tracker for over a month now, and never looked back. All in all, our administrative overhead simply vanished and the flow of implementing user stories smoothed out quite a bit. All's well that ends well, you might want to say. But the last couple of weeks raised some … Continue reading A Luxury Problem: How Emerging Iterations Eat Team Commitment For Breakfast
Agile is not Ad hoc
Last week I made an honest mistake that caused severe downtime on our website. Of course, I spent a lot of time thinking about all the contributing factors which ultimately caused such a nexus in the space-time continuum to appear over my keyboard at that crucial moment when I hit the enter key. It didn't … Continue reading Agile is not Ad hoc
