A team I recently started working with has been using GitFlow. Until last week.

We natrually postpone painful experiences, but if we do them more often we're incentivized to reduce the pain.

I hope you can join me in Vienna for the Agile Tour 2022!

Of course, as a consultant, I can confidently tell you: It depends!

Use a code freeze as a reminder that there are still quirks to be worked out, and make an effort to work them out.

Two approaches to managing hours-long jobs with continuous deployment.

Can we experiment with continuous deployment without completely migrating away from GitFlow first? Here are a couple approaches.

Blocking deployments on certain days is an admission that standards are lower every other day.

Stacy Cashmore has the interesting title of Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan, which means she has free reign to do what she thinks she needs to do! In this episode, we talk about a big rewrite decision she made, and the results of this decision, good and bad, and in particular the effect of shortcuts taken.

In 2022, I can't think of any legitimate reason that a place of business should need to close for a software upgrade.

How does your team do on these 4 key metrics identified as indicators of a highly-performing software team?