More and more businesses are attempting to adopt agile across their whole IT portfolio.  From maintenance to small projects to large enterprise programs, these organizations want to take advantages of the speed and quality improvements seen by many agile teams. However as an Agile Coach, I often hear questions such as: We need to increase our time to market to stay competitive. However, our organization and culture is heavily based on a waterfall SDLC so how do we make sure our agile teams are successful in the interim?” How can we... [More]

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DevOps in Practice – Best Practices for Adopting Continuous Delivery In many respects, delivering software updates the last mile to production is often one of the biggest challenges. Product development has worked with the business on defining a innovative product, the architects have architected a first-rate technical solution, the team is designing a great mobile app and the solution has passed the testing suite ensuring quality. However, releasing it to product is often the most difficult and dangerous part  of the process. The... [More]

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Last year, Alan Brown, Scott Ambler and I collaborated on a technical paper that captures IBM Rational's experience in achieving agility in large scale enterprises. This paper was recently accepted for publication at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). We will present and officially publish this paper in May 2013 in the proceedings. Below is an abstract for the paper. The full (draft) version can be accessed  here. We are still editing and finalizing for publication but it is close to camera ready. ... [More]

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Agile Testing - Mobile application testing challenges Several months ago, I was challenged by the Release Quality Manager, at a large financial institution, to demonstration the value agile on large projects where several of his development teams were struggling with quality with their mobile application (mobile app) development.  Here is a summary of the challenges, recommendations and outcomes from this engagement. Current Situation My customer was in the middle of an extensive agile transformation with many teams adopting a combination... [More]

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