The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. Agile practices unwind the “requirements arms race” between business and IT, while Lean practices reduce waste throughout the delivery cycle. Agile teams tend to commit fewer unforced errors, and don't defer work.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

Dynatrace

JULY 20, 2022

Adopting AI and leaning into its potential for positive impact is about overcoming uncertainty with trust. For example, an AI-enabled observability platform could detect a performance issue late at night and fix it automatically. IT staffers would no longer dread that midnight phone call to do the same.

Artificial Intelligence 219

Artificial Intelligence Government Strategy Website 219

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Run lean inventory and warehouse management operations and make informed sourcing decisions with up-to-date contextual analysis and forecasting. Dynatrace delivers granular real-time insights into business activity, application performance, and end-user experience across high-demand channels.

Retail 174

Retail Infrastructure Innovation Strategy 174

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

I'm sure Amazon also eats right, exercises, and gets plenty of sleep (probably not the people who work there), but AWS also has a secret that when that disgustingly healthy person starts talking about at a party, you just can't help leaning in and listening. What's the trick to 6-pack security? Proving systems correct. I didn't think so.

Cloud 235

Cloud AWS Azure Google 235

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Automation, for instance, can empower lean teams to achieve more, while enabling the business to avoid productivity losses and IT labor costs. And it demands technical expertise that’s in short supply. Implementing time- and labor-saving innovation is necessary to overcome these challenges.

FinTech 201

FinTech Innovation Strategy Retail 201

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2022

With DevOps leaning more towards proactively preventing issues before customers become aware of them, it’s a great advantage to be able to run health checks from the Dynatrace Log Analysis dashboard. A developer can see why a user deviated from the happy path, or worse, why they abandoned the app.

Traffic 215

Traffic DevOps Storage Innovation 215

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Dynatrace and ServiceNow’s strategic integration enables organizations to lean into the new hybrid normal, with integrated platforms designed to eliminate failures, accelerate business outcomes, and perpetuate uninterrupted services.

Infrastructure 234

Infrastructure Strategy Metrics Code 234

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

So when we say “user centric”, we’re just saying, “Hey, really lean into empathy.” When you’re building things, whether you’re a visual designer, or a designer of an API, or a PM, or anybody who’s building something, lean into trying to put yourself in the shoes of the user.

Virtualization 189

Virtualization Design Games Infrastructure 189

Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2023

Leading with SaaS Dynatrace is making a big lean into SaaS, including enhanced privacy and security. As a result, partners can help joint customers expand their Dynatrace use more easily and with greater flexibility to their needs.

Programming 188

Programming Analytics Innovation Best Practices 188

DZone

MARCH 14, 2017

JDV is a lean, virtual data integration solution that unlocks trapped data and delivers it as easily consumable, unified, and actionable information. Welcome to part 4 of Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization (JDV) running on OpenShift.

Virtualization 130

Virtualization Database Systems Cloud 130

DZone

AUGUST 21, 2019

When managers lean on using lines of code to measure their engineers’ velocity, you can understand why these same engineers have a problem with that as overly simplistic. Software engineering productivity or velocity metrics have always been a very debated topic. Largely because they have been used the wrong way most of the time.

Metrics 100

Metrics Software Software Software Engineering 100

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

At the start of the decade, Eric Ries disrupted traditional approaches to building digital products with The Lean Startup. Two iconic concepts from this era are the MVP (minimum viable product) which was popularised by The Lean Startup, and Value Streams which are a core concept in Team Topologies.

Software Architecture 98

Software Architecture Architecture DevOps Software 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I own that about myself and lean on my stats-loving peers when needed. ?? Be excited to try new things, lean into strengths, and don’t be afraid of your weaknesses?—?own Just knowing when to reach out for guidance on something allows you to uplevel your skills in that area over time. Look for roles that allow you to grow.

Analytics 138

Analytics Retail Education Engineering 138

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

We didn’t want the legacy Falcor API to linger forever, so we leaned into Federated GraphQL to power a single GraphQL API with multiple GraphQL servers. Phase 2 Deprecate the GraphQL Shim Service and Legacy API Monolith in favor of GraphQL services owned by the domain teams.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The high likelihood of unreliable network connectivity led us to lean into mobile solutions for robust client side persistence and offline support. For these reasons, as a small engineering team, we’ve found that optimizing for reliability and speed of product delivery is required for us to serve our evolving customers’ needs successfully.

Mobile 279

Mobile Cache Network Architecture 279

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Content breakdown Looking at the page composition, it's actually relatively lean, with 131 resource requests (e.g., Takeaways The LEGO home page is lean and quick to start rendering. According to Google's thresholds, an LCP time of 3.96 seconds is very close to being categorized as "poor". Those are already big wins.

Performance 69

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 69

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And when it comes to troubleshooting, everyone leans on a different source of truth. Given this fragmentation and inefficiency, the value of logs diminishes at the scale of modern, multicloud environments. Teams have multiple tools to manage and budget. Clearly, this works against the goal of digital transformation.

Analytics 229

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 229

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

We leaned into the idea of strategic security partnerships and automation investments to create more leverage for application security. This became the foundation for our current org structure with teams focused on Appsec Partnerships and Appsec Engineering.

Software Engineering 169

Software Engineering Scalability Education Engineering 169

Tasktop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The most popular framework for scaling software development , SAFe continues to serve as a one-stop-shop for Lean-Agile practices. LEAN COFFEE: Measuring Business Agility & SAFe with Flow Metrics. Yet despite many success stories , not everyone is realizing SAFe’s potential. Americas: Tuesday, 28 September • 12:20 p.m.

Metrics 104

Metrics Virtualization Government Efficiency 104

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 24, 2020

IT and DevOps teams are under pressure to deliver rapid business innovation within increasingly complex environments, all while running on lean resources. Innovate faster with an all-in-one observability solution.

DevOps 252

DevOps Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring 252

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

However, in the spirit of measuring what I impact, not what I influence , I decided to lean on the User Timing API and drop a performance.mark() after the last stylesheet: const css_time = performance. Appendix: Test Methodology To begin with, I as attempting to proxy the performance of each by taking the First Contentful Paint milestone.

Cache 291

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

It’s tempting to lean towards storing all traces for all transactions because more data is better for analysis, but if you are not analyzing it, then you are paying for nothing. Juraci Paixão Kröhling from Red Hat talked about how trace-based sampling is key to understanding whether you need to store certain traces or not.

AWS 220

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 220

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

Instead, we lean on the User Timing API and performance.mark and performance.measure : performance. As your head is completely render blocking 3 , you could proxy your head time from your First Paint time. But, again, this leaves us susceptible to the same variance and nondeterminism as before. mark ( ' HEAD Start ' ); performance.

Benchmarking 212

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Reuters Lean Into Swiping. The reality is most people will be viewing what you publish on a mobile phone, so lean into it. We’ll then close with broader tips on thinking creatively about digital content. Even now, overwhelmed by the content production line, the good stuff still shines through.

Design 131

Design Internet Internet Mobile 131

Strategic Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I’ve been using the Lean Innovation Portfolio for years. The Lean Innovation Portfolio by Humble, Molesky, and O’Reilly You may ask why I don’t recommend Wardley Mapping here, since I’ve been a proponent for a number of years? Essentially, this helps to see what’s important now and what the big bets for the future are.

Architecture 52

Architecture Innovation Strategy Website 52

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For the most part, this is exactly what we want, but in the event that it’s too late, we could lean on Priority Hints to help out. Firstly, because the stylesheet is defined so late, it, naturally, gets requested quite late.

Media 351

Media Cache Network Website 351

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen many of our customers leaning more heavily on Dynatrace’s insights and utilizing more features of the platform to cope with increased demand.

Government 205

Government Traffic Database Infrastructure 205

Tasktop

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Lean, Agile, DevOps and ITSM principles and how they contribute to value stream management. . What value stream management is, why it’s needed and the business benefits of its practice. Outlining the origins of value stream management and key concepts, including value stream roles, responsibilities and interconnectedness .

Education 98

Education DevOps Government Metrics 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

These are guerrilla tactics and lean methods that are cross-cutting the big picture. In a smaller company, our crew and approach were smaller, more lean, nimble, and organic. That being said, you can be lean and agile in different ways without following a prescribed formula that may not work for every situation or company.

Design 92

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 92

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

At work, we regularly lean on each other for help based on our respective areas of expertise?—?I There’s us to the right! Chris] Julie and I joined the Streaming DSE team at Netflix a few years ago and have been close colleagues and friends since then.

Analytics 223

Analytics Education Innovation Engineering 223

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

We leaned into Cosmos because of the low variance in latency through the system, separation of concerns between the API, workflow, and the function systems, ease of load testing, customizable API layer and notifications, support for File I/O abstractions and elastic functions.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

I’d like to stress the lean approach to hardware that our customers require for running Dynatrace Managed. Support for high memory instances. Wasted resources simply aren’t an option. Say, for example, that you have some unused high memory instances (1 TB RAM / 128 vCPU cores or higher).

Performance 150

Performance Hardware Java Storage 150

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

One of the most pragmatic and effective Lean practices is modestly called “5S” It’s all about organizing your workspace for efficient and effective utilization. Lean practitioners have been using the principles of 5S for years. In plain terms, the 5S’s are: Sort: Sort the necessary from the unnecessary.

Metrics 52

Metrics C++ Traffic DevOps 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Lean UXMas. Lean UXMas has been publishing each advent since 2014 and is a collection of the most popular articles from this year’s Agile and Lean UX latest news. All videos have even been manually re-captioned, just so they’re all at their best. id24conf on Twitter.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This must-read provides leaders with practical, actionable information about the breadth of Agile, Lean and DevOps topics that are generally dealt with individually; and explains how each of these are necessary but alone are not sufficient to avoid market disruption of your business.

DevOps 52

DevOps Education Speed Software Engineering 52

Tasktop

JUNE 17, 2021

All enterprise Agile frameworks are based on Lean theory, but most organizations fail to implement those principles in practice. This is a result of perpetuating Waterfall’s push mechanism instead of a Lean-Agile pull mechanism for work intake, which ends up creating an unstable system with unpredictable results. Read more here.

Metrics 52

Metrics Speed Innovation Technology 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

This allows the search indices to be lean by indexing only the fields necessary for the search experience and at the same time provides complete flexibility for the users to fetch any data available in the federated graph instead of being restricted to just the data available in the search index.

Engineering 183

Engineering Architecture Availability Tuning 183