Agile

National Coding Week at Naimuri

September 21, 2018Matt PierceAgile, Development, PeopleNo Commentscode, coding, codingweek2018, development, people

What is National Coding Week? “National Coding Week is a volunteer-led organisation founded in 2014. It aims to help build people’s confidence and skills by encouraging volunteers to run fun and engaging digital events.” - codingweek.org At Naimuri we have...

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September 6, 2018Daniel Booth(Pinned) Home Page, Agile, Development, DevOpsNo Comments

The Dev world is waking up to the idea of microservices architecture and the benefits it brings; this short article is a cautionary word of warning from the coal face. I am part of a DevOps team that develops several...

Provisioning

July 30, 2018Chris Tiffin(Pinned) Home Page, Agile, Cloud, DevOpsNo Comments

In a previous blog post, “There is no cloud, It’s just someone else’s computer”, we talked about how using the Cloud and DevOps creates efficiencies in the seven stages of the software delivery process, ultimately reducing the time from Asks-to-Gets....

Can I ‘Lean’ my IT Infrastructure?

May 21, 2018Dan Carrier(Pinned) Home Page, Agile, Cloud, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsagile, cloud, infrastructure, lean

A lot of organisations have Lean initiatives or a dedicated Lean team. Their aim is to create more value with fewer resources by simplifying processes, introducing new methodologies (e.g Scrum or Kanban) and asking ‘what is the business benefit?’ of...

Agile vs. Sludge

April 4, 2018Dan CarrierAgile, Ways of WorkingNo Comments

Agile isn’t the silver bullet organisations think it is, don’t forget to look in the murky depths and examine the Sludge... The Agile Manifesto succinctly defines what Agile is: "Individuals and interactions - over processes and tools Working software -...

Kaizen at Naimuri

February 21, 2018Dan CarrierAgile, People, Ways of WorkingNo Comments

Kaizen at Naimuri Kaizen - "change for better" A key part of agile software development is the idea of continuously improving how you work. Retrospectives are a common event for any agile team’s calendar where they have the time to...

Cross Functional Teams

September 12, 2017Ian MakinAgile, People, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsagile, cross-functional, kanban, lean

Grouping teams Any organisations that reach a certain size need to group people together into teams, and one common approach is to create teams around people’s specialisms: the Business Analysis team, the Development team, the Testing team, the Support team...

Agile Distributed Teams

September 6, 2017Alice SpreckleyAgile, People, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsagile, kanban, lean

A practical reality for many software development teams is that the people on those teams are not all co-located. This can bring many benefits, both for employees - avoiding long commutes or disruptive re-location, and for employers - who don’t...

Don’t Go Chasing Water-Scrum-Falls

September 1, 2017Peter BruceAgile, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsagile, kanban, lean

Shigeo Shingo, one of the founding fathers of Lean, once said “It is more important to know-why, than to know-how”. This is an observation that we feel is just as relevant when looking at the adoption of Agile now, as...

Free Download – Kanban: A Beginner’s Guide

August 30, 2017Admin UserAgileNo Commentsagile, kanban, lean

Kanban: a beginner's guide Free PDF Download Download this free, plain English introduction to Kanban, written by our resident Kanban expert, Rachel Webb. This book is an excellent introduction and a great starting point whether you're trying to implement Kanban...

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