The document discusses the roles and responsibilities of a Scrum Master, DevOps Manager, and DevOps Coach. It provides examples of how DevOps adoption improved deployment processes at companies like PayPal and Western Digital. Specifically, implementing continuous integration/deployment and embedding release engineers into agile teams reduced PayPal's deployment time from 6 weeks to 9 days. For Western Digital, using a common code repository improved their firmware integration from twice a week to on-demand. The document also outlines the author's experience over 20 years in software development, management, coaching, and DevOps roles.
Resource Planning is one of the biggest headaches for medium to large organizations. Creating a detailed resource plan that is meaningful is very difficult, and keeping it up to date is almost impossible. Plans that look good are often an attractive fiction, full of unrealistic assumptions, over-allocations, and the spreading of too-few people in too many ways. Agile Resource Planning provides a very different approach to the classic model. It produces realistic plans that are simple to maintain, and effective for planning work over time. In this webinar, Dr. Kevin Thompson will present new concepts in Agile Resource Planning, which provide a practical and easy-to-use approach to Resource Planning that can be used for Agile and classic environments.
Presentation from IT Jam conference (Kiev 2009) about basics of Kanban process and comparison analysis of Scrum and Kanban.
Kanban is a workflow management system that visualizes work and limits work-in-progress. It focuses on optimizing flow and reducing lead times rather than velocity. There are three primary feedback loops in Kanban: daily standups, system capability reviews, and operations reviews. Kanban metrics like lead time, flow efficiency, and work-in-progress are analyzed to understand workflow and identify areas for improvement. Coaches advise teams to adjust work-in-progress based on trends in these metrics.