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This is the summary of the book titled 'Doing Agile Right - Transformation without Chaos' published by Harvard Business Review Press 2020. The authors include Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez who are the Partners at Bain & Company, Inc.  This captures the essence of a roller coaster ride for every organization undergoing Agile. The ideas in the book are not only just applicable to enterprise IT and also to the Business side of it. The book not only provides ideas, but also stimulates thinking and creates an urge.  It does not stop by covering just one aspect like Innovation, but also encompasses different angles such as budgeting (i liked most), funding, reviewing, customer loyalty and obsession, functional silos and bureaucracy and GOLDEN MEAN. 

  Upstream Value Mapping - IT Delivery from Ragavendra Prasath

Courtesy & Inspiration - JJ Sutherland - Webinar on Scrum at Government on 13-Feb-2020

Courtesy & Inspiration - JJ Sutherland - Webinar on Scrum at Government on 13-Feb-2020 

Summary of Accelerate - 2019 State of Devops report by Google Cloud's DORA from Ragavendra Prasath  : Courtesy & Inspiration to the authors from Google - Dr. Nicole, Jez Humble, Dr. Smith & Jessie A detailed 82 pages report is abridged to 5 pages report.  Access DORA report here -  https://services.google.com/ fh/files/misc/state-of-devops- 2019.pdf Key stats: 1.         Elite and High performing organization do well in all 4 SDO aspects and Low. performers worse in all 4 SDO aspect a.         4 aspects such as Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, MTTR and Change Failure rate 2.         DevOps Crossed the Chasm - with industry velocity is increasing on Speed & Stability, with shifts to Cloud Computing fueling this acceleration;  Majority enterprises use Multi-Cloud. a.         Retail industry tops i...

Agile for Accelerating Digital Innovation in Enterprises from Ragavendra Prasath

DOES 2018 Las Vegas summit. This is a talk by Electric Cloud titled “The Future of DevOps for the Enterprise Trends and Insights” featuring Wesley Pullen, Chief Strategy Officer - Electric Cloud Deck is 18 MB – https://github.com/devopsenterprise/2018-Las-Vegas/blob/master/Monday/Electric%20Cloud%20Track/Pullen%2C%20Wesley%2C%20The%20Future%20of%20DevOps%20for%20the%20Enterprise%20Trends%20and%20Insights.pdf YouTube video -  https://youtu.be/Jdwm874zFKA Here are some key insights from the deck. 1.        Enterprises Taking a Hybrid Approach to  Cloud and Container Adoption (i.e.) 81% multi-cloud strategy a.        How are Enterprises Adopting Cloud-Native?                                         ...

Inspiration & Courtesy Sanjeev Sharma - DevOps authority  https://www.linkedin.com/in/realsanjeevsharma https://sdarchitect.blog/ 

This is from -  https://bulldozer00.com/scrum-cheatsheets/ and  https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonydasilvajr/   not belonging to R Ragavendra Prasath. Updated here for reference purposes only. 

Agile and DevOps revealed from Ragavendra Prasath

Hi Ragavendra, Did you celebrate Halloween last night? I didn’t. I’m not much for mid-week holidays. And I couldn’t find an adult-sized costume of Sulley from Monsters, Inc. that I wanted to wear. So instead of celebrating Halloween, I thought about Halloween and how it relates to agile. Over time, Halloween has taken on a new meaning. These days it seems mostly about boosting the revenue of candy manufacturers, giving young kids an excuse to wear costumes, or giving adults an excuse to wear costumes and get drunk. But Halloween didn’t begin that way. There’s debate about its exact origins but the root of the holiday is most likely in Celtic harvest festivals, especially the Gaelic festival of Samhain. Those early harvest festivals were then appropriated by the Catholic church and re-branded as the celebration of All Saints Day. Then the...

My first step toward TDD Vinay was convinced by the TDD approach, but he wasn't sure where to start. Unfortunately, he didn't have the chance to use an xUnit family tool because of time and training needs. But Vinay was keen to start following TDD myself, so he discussed the concept with the team and set some rules: Write the unit test cases related to any functionality in the document first, prior to writing the code. Always use track changes in the document (this helps ensure that test cases are written first and tested later). Mark the status of the test case "fail," since no code will yet have been written to implement that functionality. Write enough code to implement the functionality. Test the unit test cases written for that functionality, and update the status. It was tough to get the entire team to follow these rules. And, as I'd expected, Vinay received strong resistance from everyone. One question raised by the team was how to write a test...

Teams (small & agile teams) launch rockets, diffuse bombs, win games, build highly scalable & always available software, make ships , kill terrorists! So, what are practices of Small Agile Teams.