Agile Resources

The Complexities of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Sprint Planning

Continuous integration and delivery are critical DevOps concepts for business stakeholders to understand, and this can be demonstrated through sprint planning.

January 19, 2018

by Jeffrey Lee

· 16,247 Views · 11 Likes

DevOps vs. Siloed Cultures

Where siloed culture puts up barriers, DevOps steps in with a different understanding of team interaction and streamlines processes with automation.

January 18, 2018

by John Vester

CORE

· 74,094 Views · 6 Likes

The Secrets of JQL Everyone Wished They Knew

JIRA's querying language, JQL, can be extremely useful. Look at some secrets when it comes to JQL that can help you make more effective use of your own JIRA instance.

January 12, 2018

by Maarten Cautreels

· 12,498 Views · 3 Likes

Using Operations on Variables in JMeter

This blog post will show you how to use comparison operations, relational operations, and logical operations, in your Apache JMeter™ test scripts.

January 8, 2018

by Sergey Horban

· 9,911 Views · 1 Like

Code Refactoring Techniques

Time to redress your code for a little more simplicity? Here's some techniques on how to improve your code's look without sacrificing functionality.

January 3, 2018

by Ekaterina Novoseltseva

· 48,707 Views · 36 Likes

The Keys to Performance Tuning and Testing

According to experts and executives from across the industry, performance and scalability are the key benefits to improving testing and tuning.

December 30, 2017

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 12,505 Views · 4 Likes

15 Software Development Influencers You Should Follow in 2018

From Agile advocates and engineering experts, to growth gurus and Scrum specialists, this is a Who's Who guide for development in 2018.

December 27, 2017

by Ekaterina Novoseltseva

· 20,076 Views · 15 Likes

Requirements (Epic, Feature, User Story), Task Size, and Estimation in Agile/Scrum

Planning out your work for an Epic or Sprint can be a complicated matter. Read on to see the various ways Scrum allows teams to plan.

December 25, 2017

by Mohamed Radwan

· 136,550 Views · 3 Likes

The Death of the Architect

What's the use of all the superfluous, vague titling, anyway? Author/writer/blogger/essayist Yogeshwar Srikrishnan makes a case for simplicity.

December 24, 2017

by Yogeshwar Srikrishnan

· 33,265 Views · 72 Likes

Is There Any Value in Estimating if You're Using Kanban?

A Scrum practitioner talks about using estimation in both Scrum and Kanban, how estimation differs between these Agile techniques, and more!

December 18, 2017

by Khalid Karrar

· 38,963 Views · 3 Likes

Streamlined Microservice Design in Practice

Learn about the concept of the Microservice Design Canvas and how it is used to design microservice architecture at Capital One.

December 13, 2017

by Matt McLarty

· 46,106 Views · 39 Likes

Scrum Master Anti-Patterns: 20 Signs Your Scrum Master Needs Help

Including stakeholders in the retrospective, taking the Scrum Guide as scripture, and raising hands during a meeting - to name just a few.

December 12, 2017

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 15,640 Views · 6 Likes

Best Automation Testing Tools for 2018

Software development is still evolving, so your testing tools should be as well. Upgrade your toolset by checking out the features of these popular frameworks.

December 10, 2017

by Brian Anderson

· 57,278 Views · 22 Likes

Types of Meetings in Scrum and Agile

In this post, we take a look at the various ways in which Scrum teams work together to create a working piece of software at the end of a Sprint.

December 9, 2017

by Mohamed Radwan

· 79,022 Views · 1 Like

Acceptance Criteria in Scrum: Explanation, Examples, and Template

In this post, we explore the Scrum concept of Acceptance Criteria, and how they help dev teams create better code and products.

December 5, 2017

by Victor Osetskyi

· 165,377 Views · 16 Likes

The Best Team Structures for DevOps Success

These three team structures are the most advantageous in the real world for achieving DevOps adoption and continued success.

December 3, 2017

by Andy Cureton

· 19,314 Views · 9 Likes

Save Time on Project Planning: 4 Tools for Product Managers

Do you find visualization helpful when trying to crack a difficult problem? Then read on for a review of these helpful tools.

November 30, 2017

by Andrew Stepanov

· 7,258 Views · 2 Likes

How to Measure Defect Escape Rate to Keep Bugs out of Production

A useful metric to track to help keep bugs out of production is the defect escape rate. Learn about it and how to track it to help you reduce the bugs in your own system.

November 29, 2017

by Matt Watson

· 16,971 Views · 2 Likes