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Nov 30, 2014

The productivity power play: Practice, focus, and use big honking machines

I can think of three ways to be more productive, from first principles. When applied to software development process, they all lead to releasing more frequently.

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Mar 23, 2014

Video of the Agile New England presentation

This one-hour presentation covers a lot of material to help you get motivated and get moving to release more frequently. I positioned MAXOS as an alternative to SAFe for large systems. In related news, the Agile Alliance accepted my proposal for their…

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Mar 5, 2014

Presenting tomorrow night on Continuous Agile / Continuous Enterprise

I’ll be presenting tomorrow night for New England Agile on Unblock! Continuous Agile and the Continuous Enterprise. It looks like the room will be full to capacity.

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Dec 3, 2013

Test Layering is very useful

We used the Test Layering chart today. One of our new products was showing a lot of regression bugs, and we need to make it mostly bug free for a release. So, we went through the table from top to bottom and added or improved some layers. I’m finding that this exercise is useful…

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Nov 14, 2013

Test patterns for continuous delivery

Here is the deck from a presentation at Agile Development Conference East, November 2013. I presented test layering (this is the key and it was a long discussion), and four patterns — Centralized, Distributed, Review branch, MAXOS. The presentation was described…

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Oct 23, 2013

Webcast: How Lean Agile Changes the Product Manager’s Job

On Thursday, November 7, Andy will be presenting a live webcast for the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA.org): “How Lean Agile Changes the Product Manager’s Job.”

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Oct 12, 2013

Meetup at Skills Matter in London on Wednesday

I am working with Skills Matter to host a meetup In London on Wednesday, October 16. I will present about Release More Frequently, a Practical Move to Continuous, and participate in a discussion. For an improved discussion, we’ll have beer…

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Sep 21, 2013

Yes, Crash the Server

We’re trying out a completely new product, and the developer was anxious about posting a test release on a small server with limited capacity.

I can see why this makes him nervous. We’re used to the standards of assembla.com which is up about 2196 of 2198 hours in…

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Sep 2, 2013

Unblock! with better Recruiting for Distributed Teams

I posted a new chapter on recruiting and team building for distributed teams. It includes tactics that we have used to build distributed teams for Assembla and for other startup projects. The focus is on running trials. The quality of…

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Sep 2, 2013

Continuous Manufacturing — faster and more responsive

I heard about the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing through this startup pitch for Continuus Pharmaceuticals. They believe that if they can manufacture one bottle of pills at a time in a continuous process, they can be…