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  In environments with Zombie Scrum, people don’t understand why it’s important to ship fast. When you   ask them, they respond with a shrug. Or with a dismissive smile, because “that can’t possibly work for a product or organization as complex as ours”. For them, shipping fast is only possible for small and inconsequential products or for huge tech companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Etsy. Even if they’d want to, the investment would simply be too large. It’s more convenient to keep batching many updates into large, infrequent releases. Honestly, this is not very different from seeing the appeal in a healthy lifestyle but refusing to do the frequent workouts to get there. Signs to watch for Regardless of how much work Scrum Teams complete within a Sprint, features are batched into large quarterly or yearly releases. Releases are “all hands”-affairs where people clear their schedule for the evening and the next day(s) to address issues caused by the release. “That doesn’t w...

  Self-organization is a concept that is central to the Scrum Framework. For all its significance, it is remarkably hard to define. It is often confused with “self-management”, or the idea that teams should make their own decisions. Instead, self-organization is the process by which order arises spontaneously from something that is initially disorganized (Camazine, 2001). This distinction may seem trivial, but it helps us understand two essential truths about Scrum. The first is how it uses self-organization to act as a lever to make organizations more agile. The second is how Scrum Teams require a high degree of self-management to make that lever work. Unfortunately, we’ve found that many Scrum Teams struggle to self-organize at all. And that easily leads to Zombie Scrum: something that may look like Scrum from a distance but lacks the beating heart. In this post, we address one common reason for this: the (forced) use of off-the-shelf solutions and best practices. Signs to watch ...

The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. We’re hosting an online summit this year to encourage contributors from around the world to meet, discuss, and plan for the future. The Contributor Summit will be Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 through Thursday, February 25, 2021. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet, and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins commmunity we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to welcome new participants. Format The online format allows greater flexibility for meeting times and topics. Contributors will meet to discuss specific topics in smaller groups at times that are convenient for those in the meeting. Security - Daniel Beck ...

ZenTao team has developed its own open-source automation testing framework ZTF and universal data generator ZenData, which together with ZenTao project management software constitute a professional automation testing solution that can help users realize large-scale automation testing and improve testing efficiency. ZenTao, ZTF, and ZenData are independent and complementary  t o each other. Together with the Jenkins continuous integration platform, as well as JUnit, Selenium, and other unit and automation testing frameworks and tools, they form a complete automation testing solution. Users can use Jenkins to drive ZTF to execute certain types of automated tests, and scripts get structured test data by accessing data files or API interfaces generated by ZenData during the testing process, thus realizing the purpose of separating data and scripts. ZTF automation testing framework ZenTao Testing Framework, or ZTF for short, is an open-source automation test management framework. Compar...

Sure enough, nearly everybody understands that technology is evolving at a fast rate in today’s technologically advanced environment. Seeing alternative technologies often surpassing each other with daily updates & developments has become very common. In the midst of all this, there is an area that is influenced a lot by the tech world’s unpredictable existence, and that is Programming Language! Yeah, the most important requirement for   virtually any discipline is a programming language, whether it be web creation, computer learning, data science, or some other. And, every year, we see how the rating of these programming languages fluctuates among developers according to their demand & popularity. In the meantime, to remain relevant in the tech industry, you need to be updated with all these new developments and Programming Language indices. In particular, beginners are highly expected to consider many main factors before opting out for a specific programming language, suc...