On the fifth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me:
Five Golden Rules!
Four CI tools,
Three powershell scripts,
Two Keystone merge tips,
…and a placeholder rule in the content tree.
Today I offer you some best DevOps practices for your delivery team. Do, or do not. There is no try.
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In some lines of business, such as consulting, the organizational business goals require a certain amount of specialization in order to deliver to clients efficiently and with high quality. These organizations also typically bill by the hour, meaning downtime is a serious cost to the business. This can be difficult in an agile development model as these specialists often create silos of knowledge. Also, these specialists often get pulled in many directions and their availability is not always predictable.
How do you make it work with a typical Scrum-like agile team?
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Teams in organized sports experience scenarios not unlike those that a software development team see on a day-to-day basis: overcoming obstacles, working together as a team, training, strategizing, keeping score, resourcing, among others. As a highly-unskilled goaltender and defenceman, I have been able to experience both sides of this equation, and have been wondering what I can take from my recreational experiences to enhance my professional ones. What can the great hockey players of our time teach us about how to do our job?
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