Avoid Long-Lived Branches
If you ask a hundred consultants what Agile is, you’ll likely get 100 different answers. So, here’s my answer. Agile software development can be summed up by the first principle of the Agile Manifesto, which states, “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” To my mind, …
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Read MoreWhat’s Agile Software Development?
For many complex processes, there are several ways to do them wrong and only one or a few ways to do them right. This is true with Agile. Many organizations claim that they’re doing Agile, but they really aren’t. Many of these organizations are frustrated because they’re not getting the benefits they expected but that’s …
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Read MoreThe WIP Whip
WIP stands for work-in-progress. It’s a fundamental concept in queuing theory, which has become a central part of Lean Software Development. Some of us like to work on several projects at once. It feels like we’re getting a lot of things done sometimes but often that’s not really the case. Work-in-progress means that we have …
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Read MoreThe Power of Continuous Integration
As an Agile technical consultant, people often ask me how to get the most value from their Agile technical practices. My answer is often the same, which is start with continuous integration. Continuous integration is at the heart of all Agile software development. I see continuous integration as the defining characteristic of Agile software development, …
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