Kanban in Time Boxes

by Charl Dreyer on August 17, 2009 · 0 comments

in Responding to Change

I thought you may be interested in an article by Derick Bailey. As Derick says, “I know Iā€™m going to rile up some of the Scrum fundamentalists out there.”

“Given my current feelings about Scrum and Kanban, I thought it would be appropriate to outline how I think time boxes and Kanban can coexist,” says Bailey. You can read the full article here.

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Release The Animal In You

by Charl Dreyer on July 21, 2009 · 0 comments

in Working Software

On second thoughts, don’t. Whilst the truth is sometimes spoken in jest: “Our software wasn’t released; it escaped,” customers and users feel the brunt of poor, error-ridden software.

It’s an imposition to treat them as your testers. It’s not what they pay you money for and they don’t deserve to be treated that way.

Your strategy of continuous integration doesn’t mean you abandon quality. Resist the urge to unleash the animal in you.

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Shark Swallows Woman

by Charl DreyerJuly 2, 2009 Responding to Change
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If Scrum’s review sessions are approached with honest and open minds, and without recrimination, they are powerful to effect the kind of change you need to become continuous improvers of your business.

Tagged as: agile manifesto, continuous integration, introspection, scrum, time

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10+ Deploys Per Day At Flickr

by Charl DreyerJune 24, 2009 Agile.tv
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Communications and cooperation between development and operations isn’t optional, it’s mandatory. Flickr takes the idea of ‘release early, release often’ to an extreme: On a normal day there are 10 full deployments of the site to their servers. This session discusses why this rate of change works so well, and the culture and technology at Flickr needed to make it possible.

Tagged as: continuous integration, effectiveness, efficiency, remarkable

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