This is another post in my series on transitioning from waterfall to agile and devops processes. This post covers the program manager role, a rather unassuming role in some organisations, an important role in others, but nevertheless a role where the right person can potentially make a big impact. There are a few different types of program managers, so let me be clear on the … [Read more...] about The Program Manager in the Agile/DevOps Organisation
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Using Pivotal Assumptions to Increase Velocity
Pivotal assumption - “An assumption on business case, priority, minimum viable offer, or requirement that if false will fundamentally change designs, deliverables, or timelines.” In my post on how organisational factors increase the bad impact of architectural debt, I referred to how the lack of clear business objectives and priorities slow you down and prevent important … [Read more...] about Using Pivotal Assumptions to Increase Velocity
The Importance of the Backlog and the Product Owner
In a previous post, I wrote about the challenges and strains on roles and processes when a traditional waterfall (or even agile) organisation introduces devops. Most people focus on the tools needed and how you must establish a build pipeline and support for continuous deployment to production. However, the success of devops is in the practices of the people involved, not the … [Read more...] about The Importance of the Backlog and the Product Owner
The Changing Development Organisation: The Software Architect
(intro to this post on devops) It has been a busy few months. Since my last post I have transitioned to a new role as part of day to day development (see linkedin.com/in/greger for more details) in the Collaboration Infrastructure Technology Group (UC, telephony, telepresence, conferencing, etc) in Cisco. Earlier, as part of Office of the CTO, I influenced the medium to … [Read more...] about The Changing Development Organisation: The Software Architect
A short comment on devops (and an intro…)
A few words about devops and as an introduction to my next post: Hosted services used to be developed and deployed very similar to how products are released (see figure). There was a development phase, then an integration and test phase, then the component would be released and installed, including going through one or more staging environments. This would be done by an … [Read more...] about A short comment on devops (and an intro…)
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