Are your projects managed by a traditional PMO? Is your company culture all about planning? Are your executives expecting gantt charts, EV, and strong budgetary management of your software projects? Are you trying to transition from a traditional SDLC to an agile SDLC? If your organization follows a more traditional SDLC and you want to [...]
Are your customers giving you feedback as fast as you need it? Are you finding that your agile practices are delivering features faster than your users can review? Is your team frustrated by the quality of feedback from your stakeholders? We spend a lot of time focusing on our software development practices, working on our [...]
How knowledgable is your team? Are you consistently challenging yourself to learn more about the technologies you're using? Does your team spend time educating each other on new discoveries? Agility isn't just about shortening your delivery cycles. It's about developing the skills and abilities to deliver software better. Part of that process is learning from 'safe-to-fail [...]
Are your release practices manual? Do your release practices slow down your delivery? Are you manually configuring your environments? There are many factors that can contribute to less-than-agile release practices. Three of the most common factors are technical debt in your release methodologies, release management belonging to another organization, and operations owning the environments. Many [...]
Do your team members solve problems together? Do you use pair programming? Are you working to build a team that is cross-disciplined? Agile software development is about short timeframes, safe-to-fail experiments and delivering small batches in an incremental way. It's also about delivering value to the customer in small chunks so you can get fast [...]
Do you know why you aren't consistent in your delivery of value to your customers? Are you confident that your team can deliver value each iteration? Are your reports and metrics helping you continuously improve your agile practices? Every agile team has their own tools and metrics for managing an iteration but are your tools the [...]
You have a smart phone. You use apps. And you likely have come up with a great idea for an app. Maybe you have thought, “Why don’t we turn this Line-of-Business application into a mobile app?” It’s even likely that your leadership has been asking for a mobile application for some time but you just [...]
Are you creating unit tests for the code you're developing? What is your current code coverage? Can you easily identify when a change might break your required functionality? Unit testing offer many advantages. They reduce bugs in both new and existing features. They force you to make better design decisions and help you better understand [...]
Have you been putting off upgrading TFS and now you’re ready to upgrade? Are you itching to take advantage of the great features in Team Foundation Server 2013 update 4? Are you excited to take advantage of the query-based chart authoring in Team Web Access? Do you want a better triage experience? Are you hoping [...]
Why does your team spend so much time building out a requirements document? Is the level of detail necessary? Is it getting in the way of delivering more quickly? Find out what part of the requirements gathering process is slowing down your delivery cycle. Many teams spend more time on requirements definitions than necessary. An [...]