During my career, I have used many Agile methods/processes. IBM’s Agile with Discipline (AWD) happens to be one of them; therefore, I would be remiss if I did not share my experiences learning and using it. I first stumbled upon AWD in 2008 while evaluating a Scrum implementation for a major telecommunications company.  I heard the company had, at one time, considered AWD and then decided to hire another company that used Scrum.  As I was an IBM employee and this was an IBM offering, my already inquisitive nature was... [More]

10.    We are highly interactive virtual community--not just a forum or distribution list The DevOps Community provides a collaborative environment with discussion groups, work groups focused on hard topics, interaction with some of the world's recognized thought leaders, webinars with interactive Q&A, training for specific practices and more. Better yet, these opportunities are almost always free. 9.      We are community-driven and focus on topics of greatest interest to the community The... [More]

And, so it is with sadness that the Zone departs Disney ... ahem... Innovate 2013    But, with Tropical Storm Andrea moving in....   (The Zone apologizes to Walt....) Hiiiiii Hoooo!!!!!   Hiiiiii Hoooo!!!!! Hi-Ho... Hi-Ho.... It's off to TSA we go.... With the world famous Darrel Rader Sr Mgr, WW Capability and Community Development at IBM Rational http ://w ww.l inke din. com/ in/d arre lrad e r http s:// twit ter. com/ darr el_r ade r ... [More]

The Zone had an early morning skip level meeting.... more like skip three levels to kick off the day.... to start off a rockin' day.   It is with profound gratitude that the Zone wishes to thank Dennis Schultz of IBM Rational Unleash the Labs. Dennis took time in his busy schedule to meet with one of the Zone's clients to walk through Rational Functional Tester.  The session was highly educational for the client.  It cleared up one of the architectural hurdles they face in implementing an improved... [More]

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Today was a busy day for the Zone.   1) A client arrived at the Zone with an agile planning conundrum.  It seemed that the development cycle time of two different types of software (two different languages) we so incompatible that the best the team could do sprint length wise was in the order of months.  Upon review, it turned out that the client needed finer grained impact analysis between the two sets of software.  When this could be understood, assessment of the difficulty (read story points) would be more... [More]

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