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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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Using AI augmentation to empower database administrators

Capgemini

They are the database administrators. Database administrators (DBAs) – those who manage a company’s data warehouses and similar data platforms – are the backbone of most IT operations. As a result, database administrators know more about their company’s data than anyone else in their organization.

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The Impact of DevOps on Database Monitoring and Management

DevOps.com

The rise of DevOps has broken down silos and brought database administrators (DBAs) and application developers closer together to deliver software faster and in a more agile manner. This near-constant change driven by DevOps is reflected in the results of the Redgate 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Report.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

DevOps and Agile Methodology: Lessons Learned [PRO3964]. Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. DevOps and Agile Methodology: Lessons Learned [PRO3964]. “In Pieter Van Puymbroeck, Database Administrator, Exitas NV. All Things DevOps.

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The Role of Agile Managers: Why Job Titles Are Dangerous

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile will need to renegotiate their relationship with their teams if they are to succeed. A manager cannot simply become an Agile Manager – a big part of a transition requires a rethinking of how job titles are assigned and the leadership responsibility that comes with them. Scrum Team Titles.

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

CIO

In the new organization, the platform engineering teams work hand-in-hand with four agile-organized software development teams. Do application teams get the full end-to-end responsibility or do you cut it up, give some of it to the platform teams, and maintain a balance between economies of scale and agile?

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Are You Agile Enough for Polyglot Programming?

CTOvision

Luc Perkins (@ lucperkins ) says in his blog that the Obama campaign was unbelievably agile. He employed an agile framework that was modular and very iterative. The primary donation program was updated daily, and A/B testing occurred in real-time—that’s agile! Agility means changing direction rapidly while maintaining control.

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