Agile
Agile and the absurd theatre of Water-Scrum-Fall
Most firms have no clue about ‘Agile’. There is the theatre. Teams hold daily stand-ups. Project managers rebrand as Scrum Masters. Work items tran…
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AgileData Ops, a summary
In essence Data Operations is based on DevSecOps or DevOps and applies these same ideas to the life cycle of data management. DataOps advocates for agility, na…
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AgileDataLake and its Challenges
DataLake The entire concept of a Data Operations Platform rests on top of a Data Lake. There is no simple definition of a Data Lake, but based on the author’s …
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AgileData Operations + Agile
Data Operations ‘DataOps’ has been inspired by the Agile-premised ‘Development Operations’ model. The ‘DevOps’ model which usually includes security (DevSecOps…
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AgileSAFe Framework for Agile, mostly unnecessary
Bottom Line: IMO SAFe is a mostly Waterfall, Bureaucratic and untrue implementation of Agile. Agile is simply the construction of cross functional technical te…
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AgileKey reasons why Agile for Cloud deployments may fail
Using Agile within Cloud deployments can fail for the following key reasons: Culture of the firm is not democratized and does not allow for experimentation, fa…
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AgileWhy Agile is Superior to the Bureaucratic Mess called ‘Waterfall’
Waterfall theologies are directly responsible for the failure of ~70% of IT projects of any size and variety. Forrester estimates that 68% of projects fail due…
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AgileAgile in reality
What is Agile? About 70% of projects fail. Most of these – a vast majority – still use the Waterfall methodology. Waterfall is completely unsuited to building …
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AgileWhen to use Agile and some challenges
When should firms use Agile? The short answer is that within IT, it should be the de-facto methodology for development, migration and delivery of IT projects. …
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