Software the Agile Way....

Jez Humble and Dave Farley defined the following principles in their Book “Continuous Delivery”: Repeatable reliable process  – use the same release process in all environments. If a feature or enhancement has to work through one process on the way into the integration find a way of popping up. Automate everything  – automate your builds, your testing, your releases, your configuration changes and everything else. Manual processes are inherently less repeatable, more prone to error and less efficient. Once you automate a process, less effort is needed to run it and monitor its progress – and it will ensure you get consistent results. Version control everything  – code, configuration, scripts, databases, documentation. Everything! Having one source of truth – and a reliable one – gives you a stable foundation to build your processes upon. “Bring the pain forward”  – deal with the hard stuff first. Time-consuming or error prone tasks should be dealt with as soon...

1.  Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. 2.  Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change. 3.  Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place. 4.  End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag. Instead, minimize total cost. Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. 5.  Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs. 6.  Institute training on the job. 7.  Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and...