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SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

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That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

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Where Has All the Business Knowledge Gone?

The Agile Manager

The client in question purchased and warehoused perishable items, hundreds of thousands of different SKUs that they distributed to retailers ranging from tiny independents to large global chains. Cheap distribution keeps product prices down, which makes their retail clients more competitive.

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Labor's New Deal

The Agile Manager

Imagine a company with, say, 100 experienced software engineers, project managers, QA engineers and the like that expects to add a dozen more people to the team in the next year. And, per the aforementioned statistics, labor is exercising that power. They will have to be aggressive just to stay in place. Well, labor is back.

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SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Tasktop

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second. Auto Scaling is on by default for all new tables and indexes. Ten years ago, we never would have imagined the lasting impact our efforts on Dynamo would have.

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

They go on to report that 70% of the cases of these 7 chronic illnesses are preventable through lifestyle change: diet, exercise, avoiding cigarettes and what not. That the buyer in the auction might have been the firm itself would obviously destroy that perception, but it is obfuscated from the retail consumer.