In The Phoenix Project, we introduced the Three Ways underpinning DevOps. In my follow-up book, The Unicorn Project, I revisit Parts Unlimited and describe my learnings through the Five Ideals.
The dust-up over the term "NoOps" escalated this week, with high-profile IT executives from Netflix and Etsy issuing dueling blog posts about the evolution of IT...
It’s not often that my emails turn into full-blown conversations on DevOps. But when it happens, it’s a great time to take advantage of the insights. John
In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
The Effective Change Manager's Handbook: Essential Guidance to the Change Management Body of Knowledge - edited by Richard Smith, David King, Ranjit Sidhu, Dan Skelsey), APMG
The Effective Change Manager's Handbook helps practitioners, employers and academics define and practise change management successfully and develop change management maturity within their organization.
Agile Project Management For Dummies - by Mark C. Layton, Steven J. Ostermiller, Dean J. Kynaston
Learn how to apply agile concepts to your projects. This fully updated book covers changes to agile approaches and new information related to the methods of managing an agile project.
Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process - by Kenneth Rubin
If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, single-source reference you’ve been searching for.
Scrum in easy steps provides an introduction to Scrum, then steps through how a team gets going on a project and how they sustain performance and continually improve.
There is no one-size-fits-all, magic bullet for determining a sprint length that works well for every team. Originally, Scrum called for one-month sprints, but nowadays many teams have been successful with two-week or even one-week sprints. Choosing the right sprint length is about determining an appropriate stimulus-to-response cycle. In a sprint, the initial stimulus is the customer setting the priority of the stories. The response is the team building working software.
Difference between Acceptance Criteria and Done Criteria in Scrum
In Scrum, the Prioritized Product Backlog is a single requirements document that defines the project scope by providing a prioritized list of features of t...
In the past, the Scrum Guide consistently used the word "priority" for the Product Backlog or noted that the Product Backlog was “prioritized.” While the Product Backlog must be ordered, ordering by priority is only one many techniques — and rarely the best one at that.
The Difference between Priority and Order in Your Agile Work
The Scrum Guide talks about an ordered backlog, not a prioritized one. While order and priority are related, they are not the same, and understanding the difference and why people focus on one over the other can help your team be more effective at delivering business value.
Why We're Bad at Estimating Time (and What to Do About It)
The planning fallacy leads us to underestimate how much time it will take us to complete tasks. To avoid the problem, adopt one of these estimation techniques.
Agile Estimation: Why The Fibonacci Sequence Works
Some agile teams estimate using a fixed set of values based on the Fibonacci sequence. Learn the science behind this approach and why it works so well.