Nov
9,
2022
Why Web Development Should Take an Opinionated Approach
Software that stands the test of time is only as good as the process to build and maintain it. From ideation to maintenance, the processes should be understood and documented across your team, so that everyone works in the same way. The challenge here is how to define the process and ensure that people stick to it, through a team’s life cycles and change.
Oct
4,
2022
Agile Culture – Change
The first part of this article series dealt with the fundamental question of what culture is, how culture can be understood, and what impact culture has on the way we work in an organization. After this stocktaking, the second part deals with the question of how culture can be actively developed.
Sep
6,
2022
Agile Culture – Introduction
Agility has long been a topic in organizations of all sizes. In an environment of increasing complexity, agility can become a key competitive advantage. It's no wonder, then, that companies want to use agile frameworks to organize knowledge work. However, introducing techniques is not enough. Becoming truly agile as an organization requires nothing less than a cultural shift. This understanding is equally important for management and team members, as development teams are often agile islands in a non-agile organization that limits their potential.
Jul
19,
2022
Why Continuous Delivery Sometimes Fails
Continuous delivery and infrastructure as code are mainstream, right? At least, many claim to practice it. If you don't do it, you're out - or at least falling behind. So taken to its logical conclusion, we should see a huge improvement in delivery speed in our IT world - and not just for small businesses and projects.
Jun
21,
2022
Kanban primarily focuses on flow
Kanban is an agile alternative that’s been receiving more and more attention in software development lately. Praised for its flexibility and simplicity, this method is known for the fact that instead of focusing on maximum utilization, it optimizes flow—the flow of work. We spoke with Agile coach Thomas Schissler about Kanban’s possibilities and its challenges.
May
10,
2022
Agile values and the Agile Manifesto
Scrum has become a symbol of enterprise agility. Agility and scrum are often used synonymously. But anyone who does Scrum is not automatically agile, even though the framework can serve as a path to agility. Strict adherence to the Agile Manifesto’s values is much more decisive.
Apr
20,
2022
Prerequisites for Continuous Deployment in enterprises
Companies often have an extensive application landscape. Nevertheless, there’s often a desire or need to regularly put new versions of the products into production, either to deliver new features or to close security gaps. This article presents prerequisites for continuous deployment using a roadmap. We will address the challenges of availability, security, and quality requirements. Special attention will be paid to the aspect of distributed responsibilities, independent of a successful establishment of DevOps culture.
ScrumBut – is it the solution?
When talking about successfully implementing software projects, Scrum as a framework paired with agile development is the current state of the art. You almost feel transported back to your teenage years, listening to schoolyard conversations about “the first time”. The comparison with agile development using Scrum isn’t so far-fetched. Everyone wants to do it, everyone says they do it, everyone seems to do it better than you - and yet, probably only 10 percent do it. And those who really do it, do they do it “right”?
Feb
22,
2022
Construction helpers
In this tutorial, we want to build a complete Angular web application using Azure DevOps. The road will lead us through setup, YAML pipeline, Docker provisioning, and finally, creating the build content in Stages.
Dec
14,
2021
Agile estimation and planning
In the previous article "Scrum - an introduction for developers", we briefly addressed the topics of product backlog and user stories. We explained that an assessment of requirements with regard to scope and complexity is also necessary for agile product development. This article will go into this in more detail. We will provide an overview of how to move from time estimates and a content framework for a rough roadmap, or release planning to a concrete estimate of requirements for planning the iteration. It will become clear that developers help to get the estimates underway, especially during the process of estimating as a basis for planning.