What is Humanism? A Comprehensive Guide - Nathan B. Weller
If asked, “What is humanism?” most folks probably wouldn’t know what to say. Which is understandable. It’s hard to define and there’s a lot of misinformation out there.
Organizational Culture Transformation takes place when the organization starts the process to ailgn the culture to its mission, core values, and vision to obtain its strategic objectives. Come see how Gotham Culture can help.
What's Lost With a DevOps Team - Wide Awake Developers
Please understand, dear Reader, that I write this with positive intention. I'm not here to impugn any person or organization. I want to talk about some decisions and their natural consequences. These consequences seem negative to me and after reading this post you may agree. When an established company faced a technology innovation, they often create a new team to adopt and exploit that innovation. During my career, I've seen this pattern play out with microcomputers, client/server architecture, open systems, web development, agile development, cloud architecture, NoSQL, and DevOps.
With a DevOps team sitting between development and operations, the
operations team remains in the "learning position." But they lack the
ability to directly improve the systems.
Scrum fails far too often. Why? For two main reasons: Scrum Fails Because It’s Applied Incorrectly Scrum Fails Because It’s Not Enough Scrum Is For Every Project Do you think I’m anti-Scrum or anti-Agile? I adore Scrum! It’s the best Agile approach on the planet.
Why Value Points? Using Agile to Optimize Value of Projects
I was asked recently for guidelines on "how to use value points in agile projects". I was glad to get the question, since some people, like the blogger who writes "Agile 101," say stuff like: value points are "not appropriate or particularly necessary in all cases." Gah! The Agile 101 author actually goes on to do quite a nice job describing how to use value points, and I recommend you visit the blog, but I would like to explain why I don't think all of this is an optional nicety.
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.
Will ITIL V4 Bring Order to a DevOps World? - DevOps.com
With more than a million ITIL V3 certificate holders worldwide, ITIL V4 will definitely garner a great deal of interest when it hits the streets on Feb. 28.