Agile

Pre-Mortems

20/02/2020Sam C - DevSecOps EngineerAgile, Development, People, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsdevelopment, technology

It sounds like a strange thing to say, and I’m not entirely sure that a “pre-mortem” is grammatically correct. Nevertheless, it can be an amazingly useful business continuity tool that is commonly used. Pre-mortems are a process by which teams visualise...

Logging and Monitoring – Your Faithful Friends

31/01/2020Chris T - Cloud EngineerAgile, Development, DevOps, Ways of WorkingNo Commentscode, design, development, devops

Despite not being the most glamorous aspects of software development, logging and monitoring are essential functions to help understand how your software works. Whether you’re a developer, systems administrator or project manager, or whether you’re working on a lightweight microservice...

The Motives and Mindset of Collaboration

18/06/2019Kieran M - Tech LeadAgile, People, Ways of WorkingNo Comments

One of our core company values at Naimuri is collaboration, and so to encourage this, during the month of May, we made collaboration our ‘Value of the Month’. Most of us know what collaboration is - a definition such as:...

A Different Kind of Technical Strategy

27/03/2019Richard F - Technical DirectorAgile, Cloud, Development, DevOps, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsdevelopment, people, technology

At Naimuri, operating as a consultancy we have a diverse range of customer challenges: all within the fantastically interesting and challenging security, intelligence and law enforcement sector. Projects are made up of different people, different technologies and different problems. The...

How (not) to Break the Delivery Pipeline

25/02/2019Dan C - Software EngineerAgile, Development, DevOpsNo Comments

High performing teams that embrace Agile, continuous delivery and a DevOps mindset will rely on tooling to automate the humdrum of IT development; This makes tooling as important as a team member. Organisations that are serious about delivering business benefit with...

National Coding Week at Naimuri

21/09/2018Matt P - Software EngineerAgile, Development, PeopleNo Commentscode, coding, codingweek2018, development, people

“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 many colleagues who are new...

Share and Share Alike

06/09/2018Dan M - Software EngineerAgile, 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

30/07/2018Chris T - Cloud Engineer(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?

21/05/2018Dan C - Software EngineerAgile, 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

04/04/2018Dan C - Software EngineerAgile, 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 -...

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