Quite recently I've had an interesting discussion about the differences between developing applications in various IT ecosystems (OS + platform + language + IDE + libs + ...) - why do some of them suck (always suck / usually suck / sometimes suck) and why some suck more than other. Obviously, these questions are not easy to...
This topic gets more & more popular these days - many people on the internet discuss agile methods adoption on Enterprises, words Agile & Scrum finally got their buzzword rank - corporate people still don't understand what really stands behind those words, but they want to bring them on-board...
Another day, another interesting discussion, another topic for a blog post: the operations procedures (aka handbooks) in agile environment - should we bother writing anything down? If so, what for? The Context Imagine a DevOps team that works on operations for several actively developed, interconnected applications: * work happens in several streams...
I had quite an interesting discussion about frequent delivery of value via changes in software. The topics itself is not new and everyone who knows the basics of Agile / Lean approach (or just Theory of Constraints) knows that stashing the inventory should be reduced to minimum - one should deliver as...
In last few days a new wave of rant moved through the Internet - few bloggers (it started with Dave Thomas - one of the creators of Agile Manifesto) have decided to announce Agile being dead and, as usually, such statements heat up the discussion pretty quickly. The funny thing is that...