We're using PivotalTracker as our agile planning tool. It's great for maintaining a backlog of prioritized user stories and managing the flow of stories within an iteration. We're really happy with it. But recently a new requirement came up: How can we manage our bigger features? How can we make sure all the stories we … Continue reading A Kanban Board for Features
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Continuous Improvement and the busyness trap
You want to be agile. You want to realize value for your customers as fast as possible. And you want to get better every time you do something. Great! But beware! You might get caught in the busyness trap. Your website is out there running for some time. You're quite happy with it, but, of … Continue reading Continuous Improvement and the busyness trap
Agile Project Management Tools Evolving: Kanban FTW
It's been a while since we were using Thoughtworks Mingle as our agile project management tool. We liked their Kanban style Card Walls View a lot. Nevertheless, we switched to PivotalTracker because of its superior support of prioritizing stories in a backlog and automated iteration planning. Unfortunately, PivotalTracker does not offer any Kanban style card … Continue reading Agile Project Management Tools Evolving: Kanban FTW
The 12 principles behind the agile manifesto adapted to web operations
Walking once again through the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto, I realized how tailored they are for software development projects. Yet experience has shown that agile practices are not strictly limited to development projects, but to all areas involved in bringing a software product to the users. Here is my version of the twelve … Continue reading The 12 principles behind the agile manifesto adapted to web operations
Behavior Driven Ops, Kanban vs. Scrum and a new upcoming Monitoring and Trending Tool
Testing Dash Metrics with Cucumber (Bradley Taylor) - A short article showing off a Cucumber feature for monitoring with Nagios. Kanban vs. Scrum (Henrik Kniberg) - A great, 26 page long PDF about the similarities and differences between Scrum and Kanban. Absolutely worth reading! Reconnoiter (Theo Schlossnagle) - Theo and his OmniTI Labs are working … Continue reading Behavior Driven Ops, Kanban vs. Scrum and a new upcoming Monitoring and Trending Tool
Acceptance Testing with Cucumber
After watching a Pivotal Labs Tech Talk Making a Case for Cucumber, I decided to give it a try. Especially the seamless integration with rails and webrat made me curious. Webrat is a headless browser simulator, which can execute UI tests for you. You even can use the same syntax to drive a real browser … Continue reading Acceptance Testing with Cucumber
Agile on steroids
Agile software development is a great thing. It makes people deliver real value faster. Based on the agile manifesto there are a lot of processes and frameworks available (XP, SCRUM or Lean Software Development anyone?), which try to enable teams to develop better and more relevant software. So far, so good. In our company, we're … Continue reading Agile on steroids
Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor
Read about my ideas for Test First in Operations at The Build Doctor. Julian Simpson (@simpsonjulian) is "The Build Doctor", or as he states it: Blogger, professional build manager, systems administrator, caffiene addict, dad. We already had the pleasure to publish his great post Partitions and Warfare. Check out Julians posts there. It's worth it!
Extreme Feedback Device – Business on the Big Screen
For the past couple of months I've been slowly enhancing the capabilities of our website monitoring page. It's displayed on a big 42" LCD display in the middle of our office where everyone can see the latest up-to-the-minute updates in our page impressions, average page response times, number of RSS subscribers, etc. The page refreshes … Continue reading Extreme Feedback Device – Business on the Big Screen
Agile Essentials – Speed instead of chaos
Yesterday I gave a talk about the "why" of agile software development based on ideas and concepts of lean manufacturing. It shows some tools to speed up development by reducing waste and by working in small batches. Check it out and share it if you like it. Agile Essentialshttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=agileessentialsforslideshare-090402145018-phpapp02&rel=0&stripped_title=agile-essentials View more presentations from webops.
