I was doing some digging around for opinions on how and where to manage infrastructure tasks on the backlog in a Scrum / Agile project. http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/61529/how-does-a-scrum-team-account-for-infrastructure-tasks-in-the-planning-meeting
Its an organization wide cultural shift toward delivering value to the end customer.
When working on an Agile Project, solution requirements are gathered through meetings between the customer and the Product Owner and potentially a Business Analyst. Unlike requirements from a traditional Waterfall project the solution requirements for an Agile Project are written is a simple nontechnical format that is easily consumable by all project stakeholders. Project stakeholders …
Slice by Happy vs. Unhappy Path Any feature or method that we add to our solution will have happy and one or more unhappy paths. The happy path describes how the feature will behave when everything goes according to plan. If there are any errors exceptions or omissions then the unhappy path is taken. Consider a …
In an Agile Development Project, the Solution Requirements are communicated from the customer to the delivery / development team using a standard notation easily understood by the delivery team and all stakeholders. This standard notation is known as a User Story. See our post on What Makes a Good User Story for more details. When committing a …
When migrating your organizations culture to the DevOps way automation is a key component. Not only automation of builds and testing but also automation of infrastructure components. As I’m sure most readers are aware the build out of infrastructure components usually requires elevated permissions using credentials that we would prefer not be widely published. How …
If you are using Office365 and hosting a Blog in addition to your “Public Website” it’s a good idea to make yourself aware of the default Fonts and Styles and how they differ from the default Fonts and Styles in Microsoft Word if you are using MS Word to author your blog content. Recently while …
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The Test-Driven Development (TDD) Processes follows a pattern known as the TDD Rhythm which dictates the order in which elements of the solution should be created / edited. Before we can successfully implement TDD a few key agile constructs must exist. Most importantly we must have Tasks derived from a User Stories (or requirements) that define the details of required system …
A few of my favorite Scrum and Agile related videos… Do have favorites not in my lists? Please leave a link in the comments. Role of the Product Owner Planning Poker The Daily Scrum Intro to Agile Agile Project Ownership in a Nutshell S**t Bad Scrum Masters say Distractions – What the internet is doing …
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