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Risk: You’re Managing it Wrong!

February 23, 2018 Feb 23, 2018 02/23/18
Developer Support
The following post about managing risks in modern software development is from Premier Developer consultant, Assaf Stone.No offense, but despite your best intentions, you might not be handling risk properly. In this day and age, everything is software-dependent; even if you do not consider yourself a “software-firm” per-se, even if you are...

DevOps and Finance

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18
Pam Lahoud
Premier Developer consultant Ron Vincent recently posted this article on the relationship between Finance and modern software development practices such as Agile and DevOps.  It’s an interesting discussion of how you can bring finance and planning along on your DevOps journey.I know, who wants to talk about finance when it comes to ...

Agile work in progress tracking: Are we there yet?

August 28, 2017 Aug 28, 2017 08/28/17
Monu Bambroo
In this post, Premier Developer consultant Ilias Jennane explains Agile Work in Progress Tracking. In almost every engagement I have with customers seeking guidance on how to effectively run an Agile development shop, the question of work in progress tracking comes up. However, the question comes in different “flavors”, often ...

Scaling Agile using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17
Pam Lahoud
In the latest article on his blog, Premier Developer consultant Ilias Jennane discusses how to scale the Agile software development process for large organizations using Visual Studio Team Services. When the Agile Manifesto was written about 16 years ago, it had a simple goal and that is to uncover better ways of writing software. Source...