Sep
06
2008
It seems like Facebok is pretty agile in how it handles new features and roll outs. According to an article on the High Scalability site they actually do major releases every week. One of the things that struck me was this:
Be Innovative, Not Safe. Fear of failure often shuts down the organizational brain and makes [...]
Tags: agile, continious production, operations, rollback, testing
Feb
24
2008
When doing Agile development identifying and eliminating waste is a important practice. There is many things to eliminate, but one of the usual remedies is to automate a manual and error prone task. In my experience it is worth spending a lot of time automating tasks, not just because it saves time but because it [...]
Tags: agile, automation, continious integration, continious production, Development