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The duty of taking out needless work

June 28, 2018October 12, 2021 Ileana Belfiore Agile, DevOps, quotes, The Phoenix Project

It’s quote time again! “Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able

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Elephant #1: bottlenecks

June 24, 2018October 12, 2021 Ileana Belfiore bottlenecks, quotes, The elephants in the room

Quite unsurprisingly, The Phoenix Project (by Gene Kim, @Kevin Behr and George. Spafford) directs attention to one of my pet

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Buoys, not boundaries

June 14, 2018October 12, 2021 Ileana Belfiore buoys, DevOps, quotes

While reading The DevOps Handbook, by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis, I’ve come across a great

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About technical professionalism

May 22, 2018October 12, 2021 Ileana Belfiore Lean IT, professionalism, quotes

Just found these pills of wisdom within Lean IT Foundation, by Niels Loader and Jeroen Janssen: “Applying Lean to IT

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Let’s start the #noHardening movement!

May 20, 2018October 12, 2021 Ileana Belfiore #noHardening, DevOps, quotes

I’m considering starting a new movement: #noHardening It looks like I may be backed by The DevOps Handbook… 😉 Gene

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A word of caution from the AGILE PRACTICE GUIDE

May 15, 2018October 12, 2021 Ileana Belfiore Agile Alliance, AGILE PRACTICE GUIDE, organizational impediments, Project Management Institute, quotes, scaling up

“If using an agile approach for a single team is not successful, do not try to scale up to using

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What a technical nightmare!

March 30, 2018October 12, 2021 Ileana Belfiore Peopleware, quality, quotes, Scrum, Software in 30 Days, technical debt

Chapter 7 of Software in 30 Days, by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, provides very useful insights into technical debt.

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