It seems like these days you can’t go a single day without hearing something about the DevOps movement. Like most things in tech though, people like to create new words or phrases for everything, which makes understanding things like DevOps more difficult than it needs...
At this point, I would ask someone to drop a beat, but I know how old I am and how ridiculous that sounds. Speaking of ridiculousness, UFT 14.02 has dropped like a bomb full of trinkets of gratitude. StormRunner Functional was included in this release allowing...
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection” - Mark Twain Let me just start by saying it’s becoming increasingly more apparent year after year how beneficial it is for organizations to adopt DevOps practices. This years State of DevOps Report by Puppet has some incredible statistics on DevOps high...
The Three Ways DevOps is more than just automating the deployment pipeline. In the words of John Allspaw, DevOps is about, "Ops who think like devs. Devs who think like ops." Elaborating on that thought, Gene Kim explains The Three Ways as principles of DevOps: The first...
My August 28th blog post discussed applying Agile project management principles and a Scrum framework within a JIRA Core customized Project to manage the selection, configuration and go-live launch of a calendar solution for a business team. Our objective is to create a custom JIRA Core Project to capture business needs and requirements using an Agile...
Over the years, a set of four performance metric categories have become very valuable to me. Without the categories of 1) Workload, 2) Work, 3) Throughput, and 4) Experience, all the metrics that are available become a jumble. For example, somebody throws Average Response Time, Bytes...
Mergers can be difficult. For example, look at the Bank of America’s acquisition of Countrywide in 2008 for $2.5 billion. Now with a loss standing at $47 billion and counting because of the housing crisis and toxic sub-prime mortgages, Bank of America has withstood the...
As many of you know and perhaps know all too well, there can be many challenges when transitioning from a traditional or hybrid SDLC to Scrum or any other Agile methodology for that matter. Today I want to focus on what appears to be the...
Have you ever wondered, “What in the world is that Performance Tester thinking?” Let us enter the inner sanctum of the mysterious yet important world of a Performance Test Engineer’s perspective. To do this, we’ll peek into seven different viewpoints and a few actions within...
My July 18th blog post discussed two add-on Confluence calendar applications and an approach that would integrate a Teamup web calendar with a Confluence page. Also mentioned was the best practice of documenting key business, functional and administrative requirements to use as selection criteria to choose a calendar application...
