Building the Deployment Pipeline

So you have heard the buzz words “DevOps” and “Continuous Delivery” thrown around, but what do these things mean?  This talk will walk you through a working pipeline, why it is important, and the main ideas that you will need to start moving in the right direction for your organization.  When done correctly a deployment […]

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Agile at Scale: What the Frameworks Leave Out …

Over the last four years Silicon Prairie Solutions has been involved in a number of enterprise wide initiatives to bring more Agile|Lean practices to various organizations. During the same time there has been a significant amount of maturity in the collective body of knowledge around what processes and ceremonies can be used to help organizations […]

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Enterprise Agile

Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile is difficult.  Scaling Agile at an Enterprise level while other teams remain Waterfall is especially challenging.  Gain insights from Sprint’s story of what steps to take to successfully apply Agile at scale and how to continue Agile successes while coordinating work with Waterfall teams. Melissa’s presentation is available here Enterprise Agile. 

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Request to Run: Scaling Lean-Agile Practices Across the Enterprise

It is well known that Lean-Agile practices enable high performing software development teams. However, when operating within the larger corporate enterprise, we must look holistically at the work management system. From a business “request”, to the operational “run”, we’ll review several different delivery frameworks aimed at scaling Lean-Agile practices and discuss the transformation journey Westar […]

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