From the course: DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile

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Agile: Updating our practices

Agile: Updating our practices

- So Karthik and I got started on our DevOps transformation of Red 30 technologies. - Our people were used to conflicting priorities, projects that drag on, interrupts, and not knowing what anyone else was doing. Dozens of 80% completed projects littered the department's landscape, would ours be next? - We couldn't just change the whole engineering department overnight. We needed to find a place to start. - That's right, we formed a single Greenfield project team, comprised of a product owner and both developers and operation staff to provide our concept. - We started with the agile practices that help an actual team member perform their daily work. People want to do good work. To do that, they need to know what the right thing is to do and have time to focus on it. When do I need to have it done? How do I get help and support and how can I organize my work? - First, everything became a card in our ticketing system. Features, bugs, docs, tests, everything. We installed a motto of no…

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