To get towards continuous deployment, or even continuous validated builds, a team must take care of their automated build, test, analyze, deploy scripts. I always recommend that you have 2 scripts: deploy rollback And that these scripts are used many times per iteration to reduce the risk of surprises when deploying to downstream server environments, [...]
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Using Sonar Metrics to Assess Promotion of Builds to Downstream Environments
For those of you that don’t already know about Sonar you are missing an important tool in your quality assessment arsenal. Sonar is an open source tool that is a foundational platform to manage your software’s quality. The image below shows one of the main dashboard views that teams can use to get insights into [...]
SeaSPIN Lightning Talk from Last Night
Thanks to Jeremy Lightsmith, the lightning talk I did last night at SeaSPIN on Portfolio Management and Software Debt was caught on video. The talk went over 5 ills that you might see in software projects that can affect strategic planning and some ways that can help identify the ills more quickly for planning purposes. [...]
An Exercise to Identify and Prioritize Software Debt
I am passionate about managing software debt. You may have noticed from the articles and blog entries I have written and presentation slides on the subject. Over the past couple years teams that I work with use an exercise to identify software debt in their software. Here are the basic steps: Draw a model of [...]
Brent Barton and Chris Sterling – Partner to Bring New Product to Market
Brent Barton and I have decided to start a new company called Sterling Barton that will focus on delivering products to market. We have just started this venture and in our spare time have begun development for our first product. The following letter explains our move to separate from SolutionsIQ so that we can concentrate [...]
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) Coming Up
It has been a while since I have blogged. I apologize and have plenty of good excuses (if there are such things) about why (book, traveling, family time, etc…). I am now back and will be blogging on a more frequent basis in the next few months. My first blog entry back is about the [...]
