Book Review Review: The Goal Having read both the Phoenix Project and The Dev Ops Handbook, which both reference The Goal, I felt I had to read the book that was the inspiration.
Dev Ops Mob Programming At a recent Dev Ops conference , I heard the term mob programming for the first time. There do not appear to be too many people doing this at the moment.
Dev Ops Test Automation A Dev Ops operating model shows its best qualities when most testing is done automatically. Remove exploratory testing by replacing it with automated testing.
Dev Ops Lead Time Lead time is how long it takes to get an idea into production, fully supported by operations. How can Dev Ops thinking reduce this time to the minimum?
Dev Ops Production Support Developers like to develop new things. Having to deal with users who raise pesky bugs is not what they signed up for. Culture is key to good production support.
Dev Ops Feedback Different skils are needed to build software. When quality is low as work passes down the line, problems build up. Feedback is the key to exposing issues.
Dev Ops Refreshing Data Most applications require a database to support the code. Developers should run their code against production like database to fully test their code.
Dev Ops Focused Teams A focused Dev Ops team that sits together focusing on one priority will deliver quality, value-add software, with low lead times, and high user satisfaction.
Dev Ops Dev Ops Transformation Transformation to a Dev Ops operating model can allow our company to deliver high quality software and systems quickly, at high speed, using reuse to achieve cost savings at a group level.
