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Tips for Getting an Agile Transformation Off the Ground Many agile transformations are doomed before they even begin. Organizations focus on the wrong things up front, resulting in a poorly planned effort that doesn’t deliver business value. Here are some tips to get things started the right way, including how to communicate well, define roles, and change your culture. |
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Rethinking Your Measurement and Metrics for Agile and DevOps In their transition to agile and DevOps, many teams forget they also need to update their measurement and metrics plan. Some measurements and metrics from the traditional waterfall software development lifecycle may remain useful, but many may not provide value—and some may even adversely impact progress toward goals. |
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Supporting Scrum: Adopt before You Adapt Scrum is a fairly minimal agile process framework that you can adapt to work best for your team. But adaptation works best once the team has internalized the principles and values of the Scrum process, and that takes practice. In other words: Before you start to adapt Scrum, first try fully adopting the framework. |
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Understanding the ScrumMaster's Role in Team Communication Some agile teams believe the ScrumMaster is the sole point of communication between them and the product owner, so the team can abdicate any responsibility to communicate with stakeholders. That couldn't be more wrong. It's actually the ScrumMaster's job to enable communication and coach or guide the team to solutions. |
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Selecting the Right Node.js Framework for Your App Node.js is an open source and cross-platform runtime environment for creating server-side web apps entirely using JavaScript. There are many frameworks that work with Node.js and each excels in different areas, so selecting one comes down to preference and the specific needs of the project. Here are some popular ones. |
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Exploring Big Data Options in the Apache Hadoop Ecosystem With the emergence of the World Wide Web came the need to manage large, web-scale quantities of data, or “big data.” The most notable tool to manage big data has been Apache Hadoop. Let’s explore some of the open source Apache projects in the Hadoop ecosystem, including what they're used for and how they interact. |
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Agile Dojo: Speed Up Delivery Using Focus An Agile Dojo is an immersive learning experience where teams bring their work into a collocated space and work together to complete a project, using “hyper-iterations” of two-day sprints, over six weeks. Even distributed teams are able to collaborate, focus, and deliver projects on time and within budget. Here's how. |
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Effectively Measuring Agile Leadership Culture drives performance, and agile leaders set a team's culture, so leaders should be measured at how effectively they’re doing just that. The challenge is, what might that look like? Here’s an idea for a four-quadrant measurement approach for leaders' organizational and personal effectiveness in agile contexts. |
