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Agileana is pleased to announce that one of our co-founders, Luis Cuellar, was featured as a guest brewer at Belly Love Brewing in Purcellville, Virginia. Turns out that our friend has been working very hard on the side. By day, he writes code, manages projects, collaborates with colleagues, and works as part of a scrum … Continued
Tagged: agile beer making, craft beer, home brewer
WASHINGTON, DC – July 11, 2018; Agileana is pleased to announce that Shefali Naik, our Chief Technology Officer (CFO), has successfully passed the Acquia Certified Site Builder for Drupal 8 exam. Shefali is a software engineer and computer scientist holding a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe … Continued
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Congratulations to Felipe Ceballos, a senior Drupal developer at Agileana who has been with the company and its parent company, inQbation, since the beginning, for passing the Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder exam. While Felipe has been working with Drupal 7 since 2009 and WordPress since 2008, and has attended many Drupalcons and Wordcamps, he … Continued
Tagged: acquia certified drupal developer, acquia certified drupal site builder
Over a quarter million D7 websites According to Builtwith, a company that detects the technologies powering all websites around the world, over 1.5 million websites have been powered by Drupal at one time or another. As of this writing, over 600,000 websites are currently powered by Drupal. Of those websites, approximately half (386,138) are currently … Continued
As Agilists, we strive to be always delivering, always shipping, always integrating, and always monitoring. We also want to automate at much as possible so we reduce probability of human error and not waste time. However, in our effort to automate the non-human part of the software development process, with continuous integration and facilitating technical … Continued
We have found Agile to be an effective framework for more than just developing software. We also use Agile to start new businesses, manage projects, and plan vacations. Indeed, Agile is a methodology, philosophy, and framework for almost anything in your life. So, the thought occurred to me that if Congress were just more agile, … Continued
Tagged: agile congress, agile government, agile politics
One of the techniques in agile development, particularly when estimating, is to gauge the size of a task using T-shirt sizes, i.e., S, M, L, XL, XXL. Then, based on current velocity, a team can decide what and how many user stories they can commit to in their next sprint. Often, we will fill up … Continued
Configuration management is a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product’s performance, functional, and attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. The configuration management process is used to manage changes throughout the system lifecycle of complex systems, and it’s a requirement for FISMA compliance. These are the … Continued
Tagged: agile release planning, Confluence, docker, drupal, JIRA kanban board
For several reasons, the need to migrate blog posts from one site to another may arise. Maybe you changed your domain as part of your marketing strategy or you have several sites and want to centralize the blog for all of them. Whatever the reason may be, the procedure is simple. First of all, we … Continued
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One of the most valuable rituals of agile develpment is the retrospective. The retrospective is an event that occurs after the release of completed work or between a set of work sprints where everybody stops, takes measure of what has been completed, celebrates what is working well with the team, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, identifies what … Continued
Tagged: agile retrospectives, how to perform a retrospective, humble vs humility
In the last few days I’ve been reminded of the importance of writing user stories for requirements, and more importantly, on teaching our clients of their importance. In November of last year, the client started creating a list of requirements on a spreadsheet. Since they are not completely trained in Agile, the list of requirements … Continued
Tagged: requirements documentation, requirements specification, user stories
Managing configuration settings such as user permissions and system variables is very critical in any web application. In Drupal environments we use these two mechanisms to version those settings and replicate changes automatically across different environments: Drupal features Features is a Drupal module that offers the following benefits: Allow saving settings in code and keeping … Continued
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Perhaps “fire a client” were not the best choice of words for this headline. “How to end a business relationship with grace,” is probably the more tactful and preferred headline. Business relationships are intended to be mutually beneficial. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes, people find themselves in situations where it is not a win-win, … Continued
We recently got a new Drupal 8 project that was implemented by other developers a while ago and hadn’t been maintained for months. One of the challenges we faced was that Drupal 8 core and modules were never upgraded, and when we tried to upgrade from Drupal 8.1.0 to 8.4.3 we got a lot of … Continued
Tagged: drupal, drupal 8, migrating to Drupal 8
Agileana, LC recently partnered with Justworks, Inc. to provide our employees with employee benefits, payroll, compliance and HR tools. Justworks is an IRS-certified PEO (professional employer organization). Why a PEO? We were initially interested in a partnership with a PEO to help us offer competitive benefits to retain and recruit new team members. Because of … Continued
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