The process of Agile adoption follows its own lifecycle. After the Agile manifesto was published in 2001, Agile gathered a fair bit of attention, and was widely discussed by experts in the media. The iterative and incremental framework that promised to cut development time and costs, and yield better results for all stakeholders started to…
For a number of years, DevOps has been one of the industry’s top buzzwords. With all that talk about this relatively new concept, however, it seems like most IT experts still have but a vague idea about DevOps: sure, it helps enhance IT service management (ITSM), but isn’t that what ITIL has been helping us…
Over the years we have come across many proponents of various Agile systems, selling their particular Agile brand with the idea that when a system does not work, dump it for another – their version. In the case of Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber (who founded Scrum) and their legions of Scrum consultants, they frequently…
Lets face it, Scrum methodology only forms part of the process ecosystem necessary to create complex software solutions for stakeholders. When looking in detail at any company stating that they use Scrum, its usual to find that in fact that implementation is a fusion of Scrum with other processes adapted to meet requirements. Consequently, tools…
Scrum is one of the most well-known Agile methodologies. One of the main priorities of Scrum masters is to keep their teams focused and ensure that Scrum works effectively and efficiently. How do you know if you are doing Scrum right? Is Scrum only about Sprint and Velocity? Scrum, the iterative and incremental Agile software…
Once and a while we come across customers who complain about Agile Methodology. No matter the complaint, more often than not it is dismissed as the fault of the customer for not implementing Agile Methodology correctly, as if by doing so, then all problems would be magically resolved. The reality is somewhat different. Unfortunately the…
Constant innovation is central to building a great product, sounds great doesn’t it? However, often for the operations teams, constant innovation is tiring, – a roadblock to doing their job effectively. It means more changes to communicate to the customer, as well as having to deal with the likely fallout from the disruption of service…
The Age of the Agile Enterprise is now, and is powered by the Hybrid Cloud and SaaS. This global revolution was sparked by the convergence of mobile (MDM Management) and encrypted cloud storage technologies, but also by the evolution of Agile and Lean software development methodologies and the tools used to manage Agile development in…
Implementing Agile is a bold step ahead for most software development teams. Some just want to improve their existing processes, others feel they need a complete overhaul of processes and culture in order to be able to keep pace with the accelerating market environment. There are various approaches to implementing Agile (and scaled Agile), and…
