Visit Blog Home Benefits of DevOps A sustainable, successful business is more than the development and operations teams. Limiting our thinking to just those teams who write software or deploy it into production does the entire business a disservice. The 2015 State of...
DevOps Anti-Patterns
Visit Blog Home DevOps Anti-Patterns Anti-patterns are ideas that are counter-productive to DevOps Culture. Following are some of such DevOps Anti-patterns which weaken the idea of DevOps. Blame Culture A Blame culture is one that tends towards blaming and punishing...
DevOps Myths
Visit Blog Home DevOps Myths The DevOps movement is young and still emerging, especially among enterprises. Like any new movement or trend, it has attracted myths and fallacies. Some of these myths may have originated in companies or projects that tried and failed to...
What is DevOps?
Visit Blog Home What is DevOps? What is DevOps? DevOps (a clipped compound of “software DEVelopment” and “information technology OPerationS”) is a term used to refer to a set of practices that emphasize the collaboration and communication of...
Timebox
Visit Blog Home Timebox Scrum relies heavily on the concept of Timebox. Timebox is setting a fixed time limit to any activity and letting other characteristics such as Scope vary. A time box could be A Meeting A Sprint A Test activity Development Activity Or...
Distributed Scrum Teams
Visit Blog Home Distributed Scrum Teams Today businesses are shifting to emerging economies (such as India) due to reduced business operations cost and an easily available workforce. The businesses certainly are more virtual and distributed, with...
Scrum Values
Visit Blog Home Scrum Values Value is more like the roots of the tree. The stronger the roots, the stronger the tree is and better the fruits it bears. The 5 values of Scrum described below are basically common sense. If one can follow the 5 values of Scrum, one will...
Risk Burn Down Chart
Visit Blog Home Risk Burn Down Chart Risk Burndown graphs are very useful Communication Tool for seeing if the total project risk is increasing or decreasing over time. It allows stakeholders to see instantly if we are reducing project risk. There are two key pieces...
Risk Boards
Visit Blog Home Risk Boards Risk Boards is another powerful Information Radiator used to Communicate the status of Risks in a Agile Project This is used to make the Risks transparent to the Stakeholders. In the illustration shown here, The Risk Board indicates The...
Burn Up Chart
Visit Blog Home Burn Up Chart A burn up chart tracks progress towards a projects completion. In the simplest form of burn up chart there are two lines on the chart: A total work line (the project scope line) A work completed line A burnup chart clearly shows both...