Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) and its subset Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) are best practices that have grown to become essential foundations of corporate… Read More »Do You Still Need ITIL and ITSM?
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I first read Team Topologies in 2022 and was immediately impressed. It connected with me similarly to two great works by Gene Kim: The Phoenix… Read More »How Team Topologies Changes The Script
I found a gem in one of Simon Wardley’s presentations. Agile, Lean and Six Sigma are suited for different stages of your software’s journey. Choose… Read More »Appropriate Context for XP, Scrum and MVP
or where did my issues go? It’s the tool we all love to hate. But it’s good to occasionally acknowledge how important Jira (or Azure… Read More »How To Win At Jira
Story Points are the most divisive element of Agile software development. Why? Because they define a contract. They are the pinch-point that attempts to equate… Read More »Do You Love Story Points?
Have you ever been kept waiting for an approval of a software release? Chasing senior management? Explaining to people who have no clue how your… Read More »Approvals Come First
There is something heroic about being a fire fighter, but you can’t build a whole software company out of those who get a kick out… Read More »Some People Like To Fight Fires
Can you regularly get your features into production when you want them? Can you expect to deliver something completely new in next-to-no time? The typical… Read More »How Easily Can You Deliver New Features?
Think about how we can improve our interactions in the sometimes emotional world of software engineering. Do Pull Requests make sense in our modern way… Read More »Pull Requests cause Friction