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Backlog Grooming

What Is Backlog Grooming and How Do You Do It?

Backlog grooming is a critical part of any agile software development lifecycle. Nearly every software team has much more work than they can do at any…

Deployment Pipeline

The What and How of Software Deployment Pipelines

Every software team needs to deploy software. It’s a pretty important part of the software development life cycle! If your users can’t get access to the…

Lead Time vs. Cycle Time: What's the Difference?

Lead Time vs. Cycle Time: What’s the Difference?

A key part of effective agile software team leadership is focusing on the right metrics. There are lots of behaviors that you can measure, but knowing…

Leader's Guide to Regulatory Compliance

The Practical Leader’s Guide to Regulatory Compliance

Try as you might, you can’t dodge business regulations. In the first decades of the explosion of tech companies and the internet, regulations were few and…

product management vs project management

Product Management vs. Project Management in the Enterprise

If your organization is like many organizations, you embrace project management as a critical tool. You invite at least one project manager to every meeting, and…

continuous deployment

Continuous Deployment: How It Fits in Your Delivery

As a leader within your organization, you’re excited about the possibilities DevOps provides your team. Faster, more impactful changes mean more direct value delivered to your…

Containerization Best Practices

Containerization: A Definition and Best Practices Guide

There are many ways for operations teams to approach hardware management. Some build dedicated hardware for different applications within their stack. Some use virtualization to simplify…

Is There a Place for the Waterfall Methodology in 2021?

Managing large software projects is hard. Delivering a product that meets your customers’ needs securely and safely is no small feat. Writers spill a great deal…

infrastructure as code

Infrastructure as Code: What Is It, and Why Should My Engineers Care?

For decades, managing a server or two was a full-time job. System administrators would carefully curate their critical systems and ensure the business ran smoothly by…