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How Agile Teams Use DevOps for DeploymentAgile practices add value by helping teams detect problems early and avoid repeating them; these practices also help teams get feedback early and often. To extend the feedback loop into deployment, teams are taking a DevOps approach by including the needs of operations teams into the process early. | 
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Creating Software from a List of Things? Then Don't Call It AgileThere are two ways to think about scope—a list of things to be done or a list of goals to accomplish. As long as scope is defined as a list of things, then your project process is not agile, even if your team is using the mechanisms of agile development within the code creation cycle. | 
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Can Agile and Lean Six Sigma Coexist?Joe Townsend explores whether or not agile and Lean Six Sigma can coexist. Since agile is a development methodology and Lean Six Sigma is mainly associated with manufacturing, it would appear that the two are completely incompatible with one another. However, that's not always the case. | 
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Should Agile Teams Minimize Branching?Steve Berczuk explains that developers are most interested in whether or not an SCM tool is capable of branching, thus allowing more than one related stream of code to evolve in parallel. However, minimizing branching may be the best approach for agile teams. |
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Achieving Transparency in Your Next Agile ProjectThere has been a lot of news recently about increasing transparency in government. While government operations pose significant challenges to ensuring transparency, agile projects can suffer from these challenges as well. Technical debt and documentation are areas where project teams can improve. | 
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Why Teams Are Responsible for Successful Product DeliverySome believe that a large investment of time and money in requirements gathering and process oversight will lead to a more reliable or safer software product. But is that really the case? Steve Vaughn writes that in agile the team members are responsible for the successful delivery of their product. | 
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Avoid Non-Agile Thinking: Hacks, Egotism, and StagnancyNirav Assar shares some of the ways to avoid non-agile decorum, by pointing out some of the biggest crimes against agile that he spotted while reading Andy Hunt's Practices of an Agile Developer. How many of these examples have you seen on agile teams that you've worked with? | 
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Recent Corporate Acquisitions Highlight Growth of DevOps With the popularity of DevOps continuing to grow in the software industry, we’re seeing more and more news in the tech media about companies adopting the methodology. This week adds to that trend with some big corporate acquisitions. |
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