Tag: agile
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Link: 6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP
The problems with taking an agile approach to outsourcing your COTS projects. Among the problems: “In agile projects, it is more difficult to define risk sharing between the company and vendor. Contracts for large-scale programs tend to be waterfall or deliverable-based, with penalties or incentives driving cost and schedule performance which enables companies to hold…
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Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
Use the functioning meatware for your n-mode silos, just make sure you don’t apply the same process to each silo, if that process doesn’t work for that type of technology and approach. Original source: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
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Link: Why is Everything a “Platform”?
Manage IT as a product, not a project, and things will go better: “we are finding the concepts of product and platforms very useful for establishing governance. As companies move to agile development, they quickly realize the power of treating their applications or web/device apps as products with a well understood customer to keep happy…
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Link: Why men need more consideration in the women in tech debate
Having to watch the kids is a big problem For gender imbalance in the workforce. Maybe dads can step the fuck up: “It’s also about asking men to ask for paternity leave. The amount of men that I know that say, well I’m given two weeks and that’s it. They don’t push it, they don’t…
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Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the ‘Millennial Problem’ in the Workfor
“All the ‘demands’ millennials have that people think are so outrageous are things everyone wants–work/life balance, recognition when they do a good job, a sense of purpose–this is all stuff managers should be giving to their employees, anyway,” says Michael Greer, a digital marketing consultant who has led employee training and development initiatives for over…
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Link: The rise and fall of 18F
“By most metrics, 18F is withering away.” Original source: The rise and fall of 18F
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Link: Considering “Digital Transformation”
“That’s why agile methodologies such as DevOps are so important, not in themselves (yes, that would be putting the cart before the horse again) but because they give businesses an approach to innovate at high speed.” Original source: Considering “Digital Transformation”
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Link: Creative ways to encourage the integration of DevOps processes
‘Teams come into the dojo with a backlog of real work they are trying to deliver and are paired with DevOps coaches for six weeks. Some managers expect the teams to deliver these projects faster over the course over this period. Sometimes it happens, but Clanton explained it is really about building the skills that…
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The many meanings of “DevOps,” legacy software, & adulthood – Coté Memo #22
I’m in New York today for a quick meeting, ostensibly on DevOps, but as ever on how organizations can do software better. “DevOps” has increasingly become the term people use when they mean “doing all that new stuff, in new ways.” Vendors, like Pivotal, have tried to use the phrase “cloud native” to describe it,…
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Largile, living with nudists, containers, & jobs – Coté Memo #21
It’s turkey time! In the US at least. There’s a few pieces of my content below and some links. I’m hoping to just have two more trips this year, but we’ll see what Q4 demands have. I’ll be at the Gartner AS&S conference in December. Come on by the Pivotal booth to say hi if…
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Help me finish this agile PDF, hear @bwhichard complain about Agile – Coté Memo #19
It’s the day before elections in the US. If you haven’t already, go out and vote. Kim and Cormac are up in Ohio block walking to get out the vote, which is amazing. In retrospect, I should have gone with them. I’ll have to remedy that for the next elections, about two year’s time I…
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You’re not really Agile, airports, hitting yourself & absurd AI TAMs – Coté Memo #18
There’s not much to say at the moment, just some travel here and there before Thanksgiving and then Christmas. The end of the year is fun, it cools down and you get to see family. I’m trying to wrap up my big PDF for this year, the “second edition” of my cloud native journey book, check out…
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Coté Memo #16 – Outsourcing & DevOps, Lovecraft, 38% DevOps penetration
Fall is finally coming to Austin, which means it’s nice and cool. With a long lull in travel, I’ve been working on a second edition of my “cloud native journey” PDF. See a fragment of it below, on outsourcing. Meanwhile, I’m reading through the DevOps Handbook to write a review. Outsourcing and DevOps, it’s a…
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Coté Memo #14 – Wet Phones, Podcasts, and #S1P
Since last time, I was at SpringOne Platform and took a week off for beach-time. Both were fun. I have very little travel over the next few, well, months. I’ll be speaking up at DevOpsDays Dallas, Sep 15th and 16th. With this “downtime” – we’ll see if I actually do it – but I’m hoping…
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Coté Memo #13 – LAS Twice, Circle of Code
I’ll be in Las Vegas two weeks in a row, which is a rarity. Las Vegas was a frequent destination when I was an analyst at RedMonk and 451: big vendors like IBM and Microsoft love to put on shows here. I suppose it’s cheap, easy to get to, and has rooms a-plenty. The perfect…
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Coté Memo #12 – The Gibberish of PaaS, Multi-cloud, Agile, etc.
Last week I had a tiny tour of Poland, speaking in Warsaw and in Devoxx in Krakow. It was fun! I got to give the long version of my “Surviving and Thriving in BigCo’s talk” and also the “Better Ways of Doing Software” stump speech, as it were. Tragically, I missed the pigs on a…
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Coté Memo #9 – “Let’s meet in Bender, it’s usually free.”
This week I’m at OSCON in Austin – loads of people are in-town! Next week I’ll be at CF Summit in Santa Clara. It’s a good chance to see people talking about “cloud native” and they’re applying it at their company. I’ve got a 20% discount code if you want to register. DevOpsDays Seattle last…
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Coté Memo – Issue #7
It’s the thick of conference season. I was at DevOpsDays earlier this week, and Agile & Beyond right now. Next week it’s DevOpsDays Seattle, then OSCON in Austin, and the CF Summit. If you want to go to any of these, I have registration discount codes for many of them, check out cote.io/promos. Coté Content…
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Coté Memo #6 – OpenStack, big cloud transformation
The OpenStack Summit was pretty good stuff. Coming up next week is DevOpsDays Austin where I’ll be speaking on Tuesday and staffing the table. I’m then off to the Agile and Beyond conference to talk better ways of doing software and unicorns. Hopefully I’ll see y’all around, otherwise, keep apprised of the Twitters for any…
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Link: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry
“As for the Pivotal partnership, Ford will use Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and big data suit e to build its connected vehicle program. So far, Ford said it has sped up software development times from months to weeks using agile techniques.” Source: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry
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