Just as the title states, not everyone can adapt to the demanding and unpredictable nature of a build and release engineer’s job. We just recently hired an intern for our group to help out with the hectic build implementation tasks. The intern in question had a website design background which I believed was thoroughly shocked [...]
Another Agile concept we’ve adopted within our group is the daily stand-up meetings. At first glance, this may seem like an evil way of micro-managing but that thought quickly dissolves once the values of such meetings started to add up.
These daily stand-ups should be conducted just as the title implies; everyone must be standing. [...]
Tools such as XPlanner should be the cornerstone of a software configuration management group. This iteration and user-stories based model planning tool allows software configuration management engineers to have a more complete picture of what the current tasks/projects are and what’s in the back-burner.
The way my current team uses this tool is we break it [...]