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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
Tagged: agile wordpress developer washington dc, wordpress, wordpress migration, worpress redirect, WP-CLI
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
Tagged: Agile Development, Drupal 7, drupal expert washington dc, drupal maintenance expert washington dc, quality assurance, Washington DC drupal shop
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
I wasn’t sure about giving my boys – age 8 and 12 – video game technologies like iPad, iPhone, iMac, Xbox, Wii, etc. Their personalities seem to change when they are in game mode. They can’t hear when you speak to them, they get irritable when you interrupt them for things like dinner and bedtime, … Continued
Tagged: minecraft, roblox, video games
Ten years ago, I was living in Santa Monica, California and working 2 blocks from the beach. Every other person who came into my office seeking a website was either associated with Hollywood or was an aspiring entrepreneur wanting to start up a new tech company. But, they only had a budget of $2,500. Talk … Continued
Tagged: @inqubation
You start your work day as usual. Pour yourself some freshly-brewed coffee, sit down at your computer, and check your emails. You see a new one from your most recent client, about the last sprint you just completed for them. You open it and your eyes are greeted by the following: “Great job on the … Continued
Tagged: agile, how to manage client expectations, setting expectations
There are times when you need to manipulate a form via hook_form_alter in Drupal, and you may need to hide/show fields depending on some criteria. You can hide a single field using something like $form[‘field_name’][‘#type’] = ‘hidden’;. But, what if you’re using the ‘field_group’ module and you want to hide a whole group? Well, you … Continued
Tagged: drupal, Drupal 7
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