Artificial Intelligence is a new topic for the DORA 2024 report and gives an interesting insight into how this new and...
Quality Plays
Successful technology teams are ruthless in their application of processes related to ensuring quality.
These Plays look at good practices around ensuring quality in everything which the team does.
DORA 2024 – Software delivery performance
The influential DORA group have recently released their 2024 report. I’ll be pulling out some of what I feel are the...
What is “waste” (muda) in Lean?
There will be aspects of the product which do not directly address customer need. Anything which does not add value...
Local optimisation is the enemy of change
There is a natural tendency for teams to get more efficient at working in a specific way. Teams will often do this...
Structures and systems – do you need a process approach?
Scale-ups quickly need to understand what processes exist in the organisation and how these fit together to maximise...
The three “D”s of disconnected work
For the team to self-manage, they must be able to see all of their planned work in one place, which means theyto see...
Engineering Scorecard – Quality metrics
We could complete a large number of backlog items. But if these cannot be used because they need rework or do not...
Continuous improvement using DORA metrics
The DORA performance metrics are designed to predict (be leading indicators for) business outcomes and to be lagging...
DevSecOps and Agile – conflict or partner?
DevSecOps is a key movement in software development which integrates the development of software with the deployment...