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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity: May 2010
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity. A blog based on my experiences and thoughts on helping software delivery organizations change from good to great by pragmatically applying agile, lean and other modern day approaches. Friday, May 28, 2010. Agile Adoption in the Banking Industry. 1) Banks are using agile in tactical ways. 2) Their usage is largely limited to applying two practices “iterative development” and “co-located teams”. 3) Architecture is not interested.
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity: Five Step Illustrated Guide to Setup a Kanban System in an Enterprise Organization
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity. A blog based on my experiences and thoughts on helping software delivery organizations change from good to great by pragmatically applying agile, lean and other modern day approaches. Thursday, December 8, 2011. Five Step Illustrated Guide to Setup a Kanban System in an Enterprise Organization. In our scenario, we were helping an IT Development Group. That is responsible for packaging, and pushing code into staging and production...
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity: March 2011
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity. A blog based on my experiences and thoughts on helping software delivery organizations change from good to great by pragmatically applying agile, lean and other modern day approaches. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Why co-located team rooms are important. Email 1 from Debugging Developer:. Hi Developer B,. Some complex XML message. Response email from Developer A:. You sent a transaction per below. The changes were not deployed on t...
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity: April 2010
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity. A blog based on my experiences and thoughts on helping software delivery organizations change from good to great by pragmatically applying agile, lean and other modern day approaches. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Architect Police vs Architect Leads. However, in an effort to provide "independence". This "architecture policing" anti-pattern tends to produce the following results:. I am hoping to see more organizations continue to follow t...
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity: August 2011
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Alexis Hui - Improving Software Delivery and IT Organizational Maturity. A blog based on my experiences and thoughts on helping software delivery organizations change from good to great by pragmatically applying agile, lean and other modern day approaches. Monday, August 1, 2011. Maximizing the Benefits of Kanban as an Accelerator for Lean/Agile Transformations. Larger and more legacy systems/teams bring about different challenges the pilots did not face. As an alternative to the piloting approach is a K...
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All Things QA: Persistence testing web applications
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Roughly 6 million things about software testing they don't tell you :). Saturday, December 12, 2009. Persistence testing web applications. My previous post on performance testing is the prequel to this post. Persistence / stability / soak testing is the next step after figuring out how well your application performs under load. It's time to determine if it continues to perform well under reasonable load over a period of time. Reasonable load in this context:. November 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM. Subscribe Now: ...
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All Things QA: Dec 19, 2009
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Roughly 6 million things about software testing they don't tell you :). Saturday, December 19, 2009. Six degrees of separation from a skill. My pet peeve as a hiring manager is what I like to call the "six degrees of separation from a skill" syndrome :). Beware when you see everything but the kitchen sink listed as skills, especially in short career spans. More often than not, my phone screens of such candidates have taken bizarre and disappointing turns such as these:. 2Other lame but fairly common ones:.
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All Things QA: 7 steps to performance testing bliss :)
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Roughly 6 million things about software testing they don't tell you :). Sunday, January 31, 2010. 7 steps to performance testing bliss :). This post goes out to those that approached me recently with the question "I would like to learn performance testing. How do I get started? It's a step by step approach to getting started on performance testing. A couple of points may cause deja-vu from previous posts, but repeating those was necessary evil towards creating this summary guide. Step 1 : Identify tests!
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All Things QA: Performance Testing Web Applications
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Roughly 6 million things about software testing they don't tell you :). Sunday, December 6, 2009. Performance Testing Web Applications. This section explains how the terms performance, load and stress testing seamlessly integrate towards end to end performance testing. Response time of an action (Performance testing tool). Actual throughput vs target throughput (Performance testing tool). Responsiveness of the action/app (Example successful HTTP requests -200 response code) (Performance testing tool).
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All Things QA: Test Management tool selection
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Roughly 6 million things about software testing they don't tell you :). Saturday, December 5, 2009. Test Management tool selection. Most QA teams (especially start ups where you have to start testing before you can say the word "test management") start by writing test cases in Excel files, word documents and post-its ;). As a lead/manager, your first task should be to end the madness and start using a test management tool or evaluate the current system and replace if it's ineffecient. Persistent / one ti...