Agile

An AWS engineer recently wrote about how Amazon deployment pipelines look and what practices they follow to deploy continuously to a production environment. A pipeline validates changes in multiple pre-production environments running unit and integration tests, and use stages to stagger deployments to production. Developers don’t actively examine deployments as the pipeline monitors key metrics and can rollback if needed. Also, developers model their pipelines as code that can inherit common configurations....

High value at low cost. There’s nothing quite like finding a bargain. That’s why my colleagues and I bargain hunt when planning and developing software. Bargains in software are high-value features available at a fraction of the full price. Many teams pay full price for features because they don’t take time to shop for bargains. They follow a popular process like this: Product Owner writes stories. Product Owner prioritizes stories. Developers estimate stories....