7 Hints for Agile Methods and DevOps

The transformation of product development with DevOps and agile methods only promises success when decision makers approach it company-wide.

Many companies rely on agile software development and DevOps structures in their digital transformation. Too often, however, they assign teams that are too small for this and thus set limits to their success from the outset.

In practice, seven approaches have proven themselves:

  1. Work on cultural change
  2. Measure progress
  3. Limit yourself to a few tools
  4. Ensuring security and governance
  5. Train employees properly
  6. Share best practices
  7. Get support from management
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Top 10 Mistakes made by new agile Teams in IT

The following is a collection of the 10 most common mistakes that a new agile team can make in IT.

  1. Fear
  2. Poor communication
  3. Poor team structure
  4. Poor estimation & Picking incomplete backlog items
  5. Poor planning
  6. Poor testing
  7. Ignoring customer/user feedback
  8. Lack of team empowerment
  9. Lack of retrospective and demo meetings
  10. No plan to address employee resistance

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Product Development

If one woman can make a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can make a baby in 30 days. Now you may laugh, but this is the most common problem in developing a new product. Throwing more resources at the problem and praying it goes away does not solve anything.

These are not only the 7 Deadly Sins of Product Development. If you have something to do with IT-Projects they will sound familiar to you too.

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