Many software systems contain code that is overly complicated, hard to understand, and hence expensive to change and evolve. Prioritizing technical debt is a hard problem as modern systems might have millions of lines of code and multiple development teams, so no-one has a holistic overview. In addition, there is …
In this talk Shane explores these topics and relates it to his own journey to becoming a recognized expert coach through a competency-based assessment (ICE-AC). Agile Coaching is a relatively new discipline and there is a lot of misunderstanding about why coaching is useful, what skills and competencies an agile …
You often hear technical debt described as a personal failure for software developers of the Scrum team. Why didn’t you code with greater rigor? By creating technical debt, how could you have made life harder on people working in the code? More often than not, technical debt is the result …
The design thinking project life-cycle has 6 well-defined stages. Mapping these stages onto a typical Agile development project shows when designers should conduct which UX activities.
The first product build specifically for Continuous Delivery pipelines came out over 10 years ago. The Continuous Delivery book came out 9 years ago. In the time since we’ve seen massive changes in the types of software we’re building, testing and deploying. Yet the way we think about pipelines hasn’t …
This talk explains why technical excellence and operational excellence is required for being agile, and how to get there. You want to become agile. So you re-name some roles in your teams, do the meetings and rituals you found in the Scrum guide, run two-week sprints. But this is not …
