
The importance of seeing red
My lazy brain sometimes tries to take TDD shortcuts. This always bites me in the rear end.

Why is organizational transformation so hard?
Most corporate leadership doesn't actually want an agile transformation. What they want is lip service to agile transformation.

Agile houses
We often contrast software to physical buildings--the idea that software is easy to change, whereas buildings are difficult to change. But is this really true?

Pick a methodology: Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean or DevOps?
None of these items directly replaces or conflicts with any of the others. In fact, you can use them all simultaneously.

What's the officially correct time to mark a user story "complete"?
User stories exist to serve you, not the other way around.

Why I don't like Jira
I believe Jira is responsible for more lost human productivity than any other software ever created. And yes, that's even when considering Windows Me!

What makes an agile tool "good"?
The best tools offer two things: They make useful things easier, and unuseful things harder.
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Can a "feature factory" be "Agile"?
You may achieve technical excellence, but without a holistic agile approach, you may just be shipping technically excellent, but worthless features.
Tiny DevOps episode #28 Amando Abreu — Defining Confusing Terms
Amando Abreu joins me again, this time to discuss definitions of many of the confusing terms that abound in the industry of software development, Agile, and DevOps.

How would you improve velocity on a team you're working with?
The first thing I would do is stop measuring velocity.
Adventures In DevOps 100: DevOps 100
Jillian, Jonathan, Shimon, Will, and Chuck discuss the history of the show, their favorite episodes, and what they think is coming in 2022.