Tuesday, August 07, 2018

DevOps Tools


Good visuals by John Cutler on why agile isn't working...

Changes to scrum


  1. Chicken and pigs
  2. Dev teams no longer "commit", they forecast
  3. Grooming replaced by refinement
  4. The three questions in daily scrum are an option, DS can be conducted in various ways as long as in the context of sprint goal.
  5. Team is responsible for daily scrum instead of scrum master

Interesting reads - Agile, Change Management and Rest...


  1. Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins
  2. Narrative Coaching by David Clarke
  3. Nudge - Thaler and Sunstein

In favor of autonomous, feature teams

Erin Koth

I always like posing the question, "What do you do when production is down?"
You get people who have knowledge of the entire application in a room together and empower them to fix the problem.

That's the type of team you want in development, without the extreme pressure of that sort of time crunch

If we already have automation, what's the need for Agents?

“Automation” and “agent” sound similar — but they solve very different classes of problems. Automation = Fixed Instruction → Fixed Outcome ...