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This is Part 3 of a multi-part series. This article will dig deeper into adding tasks such as Product Backlog Items to the board. I’ll also describe a little more my approach to Scrum as I’m both the customer and the developer. In Scrum terms, I’m both the Product Owner and the Scrum Team.
Read MoreThe work for my Long Term app development and hosting project needs an effective method of tracking the work. I’m a single person, so I want something simple and light weight. Having studied Agile and SCRUM, that’s where I’m leaning. Give me a Kanban board where I can track a backlog, Work in progress, and done items, and I’ll be happy.
Read MoreThe DevOps movement is still very much alive and finding its way from the commercial world into the Government. Government adoption, like in other places tend to find themselves on a spectrum between setting up and managing a CI/CD pipeline to full on broken down silos and self-managing teams. It’s because of this range of experiences that I decided to compile a quick cheat sheet that help folks cram on the subject if they find that their traditional silo is being disrupted by a DevOps initiative.
Read MoreLast week I was honored to be a guest on the Datanauts Podcast. Episode 149 is titled “Entering The DevOps World With Azure DevOps.“ It is, as you can probably guess, about VSTS / Azure DevOps.
Read MoreMicrosoft announced on Sept 10th that Visual Studio Team Services would soon become Azure DevOps. Along with the name change are a few alterations to the service names. VSTS users shouldn't feel too out of place. It feels like the same house with the furniture slightly rearranged. So far, I only see upside to the changes.
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