Don’t be a feature factory. Get empowered instead — “I promise you that at least half of the ideas on your roadmap are not going to deliver what you hope. (By the way, the really good teams assume that at least three quarters of the ideas won’t perform like they hope.)” — Marty Cagan, Inspired (2nd Edition), p.19 Marty…

Structuring teams is always tricky. Let’s do it right — We want to understand why team structures matter and how to use them most effectively within the bigger picture of software delivery. The book Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais explains exactly this. …

Rethinking productivity and culture — According to Forbes Insights and ScrumAlliance, only 47% of executives believe they will see sustainable value from their Agile transformations. This is both worrying for the organizations and painful for the developers struggling through these programs. State of Agile surveys repeatedly tell us that culture change and management participation are…

Agile has conquered the world. Iterative feedback for software development makes sense. But talk about Agile on big projects and you get war stories. “We tried to be Agile but…” You hear that Agile did not produce a harmonious project. It can seem as though getting Agile to work at…

Understand MLOps needs and how they arise through the MLOps Lifecycle. Apply this to better scope and tackle MLOps projects. — MLOps can be difficult for teams to get a grasp of. It is a new field and most teams tasked with MLOps projects are currently coming at it from a different background. It is tempting to copy an approach from another project. But the needs of MLOps projects can vary…

We often think of ‘deployment’ as packaging software into an artifact and moving it to an environment to run on. For Machine Learning it can be better to think of deployment as “the action of bringing resources into effective action” (one of Oxford’s definitions of ‘deployment’). There are a range…

You’ve got an application that you want to deploy with Helm. Probably you’ve seen the official docs and some examples. But you’re not sure how to apply them to your app. Here are some tips. 1 Know Your Docker Image Have a docker image/s for your app first and be sure you can work with…

Helm charts package up applications for installation on Kubernetes Clusters. Installing a helm chart is a bit like running an install wizard. So helm chart developers face some of the same challenges faced by developers producing installers: What assumptions can be made about the environment that the install is running…