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Continuous Deployment = Continuous Business Improvement

One of the benefits of working on a startup project of which I am the owner is that I can do things the way I want to. One of the things I was keen to try out...

1 replies - 5869 views - 09/11/11 by Wille Faler in News

Acceptance Criteria for Release Management Maturity Model

I was asked a good question by a colleague a couple of days ago. On p419 of my book Jez and I show and I describe a “Configuration and Release Management...

0 replies - 6132 views - 09/09/11 by Dave Farley in News

Build Versioning Strategy

Over the last few years I’ve followed a build versioning strategy of the following format: <Major Version>.<Release Version>.<Patch...

2 replies - 7927 views - 09/07/11 by James Betteley in News

Damn Abstraction - Frameworks, ORM, Filesystems, VMs, etc.

In May 2011 I was asked to do a presentation at GotoCon CopenHagen. Unfortunately due to illness I had to cancel at the last moment. I hope to make up for it...

9 replies - 7059 views - 09/06/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Your Code is NOT Somebody Else’s Problem

Imagine an ant working at the top of a mountain. Next to it, there’s a sluice of melt water running and, at that moment, the ant removes a tiny particle...

3 replies - 7741 views - 09/01/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News

Hypothesis based development

I think that the reason that agile development works is because it is the application of the scientific method to software development. A fundamental...

1 replies - 5022 views - 08/31/11 by Dave Farley in News

Let's not forget what makes a good tester a good tester

In the past year or so, I've spent more time than not trying to find really good "agile testers" to hire. In this search, I have also had many...

4 replies - 8161 views - 08/30/11 by Dawn Cannan in News

The Case For Rapid Release Cycles

There has been some discussion recently on the Zend Framework mailing list around release cycles. I proposed a release cycle of six months for major...

1 replies - 5683 views - 08/28/11 by Bradley Holt in News

UrbanDeploy GA Release: Deployment Automation

Bridging the Gap Between Dev and Ops Teams: UrbanCode Releases UrbanDeploy for General Availability While the debate still rages on about "What is...

0 replies - 9836 views - 08/25/11 by Eric Minick in Announcements

Everything I can find about Software Maintenance

Given that most of us will spend most of our careers maintaining and supporting software and not building something new from scratch, there is a surprising...

3 replies - 11234 views - 08/25/11 by Jim Bird in News

A Continuous Deployment Example Setup

One of the reasons behind getting around to building Vagrantbox.es recently was I was giving a talk to a group of startups on The Difference Engine programme...

0 replies - 8709 views - 08/22/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

DevOps and PaaS - Friend or Foe?

DevOps, which I will arbitrarily define here as "automating SysAdmin tasks to streamline application lifecycle management," raises important...

2 replies - 4380 views - 08/19/11 by Chris Keene in News

Considerations when choosing hardware for CI

This post is the second post in a series on how CI will help a development team. The first post talks about the benefits that CI will bring to the team. (CI =...

1 replies - 6531 views - 08/07/11 by Paul Stack in News

Translating Code Smells in Server Smells

At xpdays Benelux 2009, I attended an interesting session called 'Developing a Sense of Smells' by Kevin RutherFord and Lindsay McEwan. The exercise we did...

1 replies - 8321 views - 08/04/11 by Patrick Debois in News

DevOps Q&A with Kevin Parker

This is an interview with Kevin Parker (@kevinparkerusa) about DevOps How do you see agile affecting application development and delivery? The biggest impact...

0 replies - 4054 views - 07/28/11 by Matthias Marschall in News