Section » Process

Operations and Development – Working Together – Oh My!

Operations and Development – Working Together – Oh My!

By JeffSmith • on November 2, 2009

Many in the development world have not yet heard of ITIL, but I believe it will come to matter soon enough. The ability to optimize organizational performance, not simply development performance, is a competitive edge and the path toward lowered cost and increased growth in the long term. If you are delivering critical web applications, you really want

No CommentsRead this story »

More Articles

New Radio TFS Episode on Adopting Team System with Steven Borg

New Radio TFS Episode on Adopting Team System with Steven Borg

By Steven Borg • on March 31, 2009

A few weeks ago during the MVP summit, I had the wonderful experience of hanging out with Martin Woodward of Teamprise and

1 CommentRead this story »

Practical Process Improvement (Part 5)

Practical Process Improvement (Part 5)

By Jeff Levinson • on December 26, 2008

The first four posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part

2 CommentsRead this story »

Practical Process Improvement (Part 4)

Practical Process Improvement (Part 4)

By Jeff Levinson • on November 14, 2008

In the previous two posts (Part 2 and Part 3) I covered an ideal bug process and the metrics

5 CommentsRead this story »

Practical Process Improvement (Part 3)

Practical Process Improvement (Part 3)

By Jeff Levinson • on October 31, 2008

In the last post in this series I discussed the process involved around the first part of the ideal bug process. In this post I will finish up the rest of the process and metrics for handling bugs. Fixed,

2 CommentsRead this story »

Practical Process Improvement (Part 2)

Practical Process Improvement (Part 2)

By Jeff Levinson • on October 23, 2008

In my last post I talked about why metrics are important and what the goals are in using metrics. In this post I’ll talk about the bug process. How does your team handle bugs, how can you gather metrics on

3 CommentsRead this story »

Practical Process Improvement (Part 1)

Practical Process Improvement (Part 1)

By Jeff Levinson • on October 1, 2008

So, its been a while since I regularly posted but starting every week or two weeks I’ll be posting a bit on the topic of Process Improvement. Not from a  high on the pulpit position but from the “how do I figure out what my problem is and, and more importantly, how do I solve it.”

2 CommentsRead this story »

Sexy Technology, Latest and Greatest and things still fail

Sexy Technology, Latest and Greatest and things still fail

By Jeff Levinson • on May 18, 2008

There have been numerous reports in the last year of “issues” with Twitter, Facebook, Seesmic and other “web 2.0″ sites (I put that term in quotes because I have lots of issues with what it means since I don’t think it means anything – but that’s just me personally).

No CommentsRead this story »