It seems that everywhere you look, companies are looking to create near-shore and off-shore partnerships, to
increase their software development capacity and reduce costs. Interestingly, this is not limited to large
companies; more and more SMEs are joining in. At the same time, we now have over a decade of experience
with this topic in the industry, and have learned some hard-earned lessons. It seems not that long ago that companies were pulling
back from off-shoring due to a significant number…
In a previous post I promised to write an article about the shortcomings of Agile. I recently had an exchange
with a former colleague that convinced me the time has come to have an honest discussion about what Agile does
not do well. Through the years, Agile seems to have acquired a cult status, where people seem to think that it
can, not only, do everything, but do it superlatively well. Anyone who has actually used Agile methodologies
knows that neither of those points are true, yet Agile…
This is the last part in our series on designing CI/CD pipelines. The first part of the series
defined the objectives of the pipelines, and defined the stages that go with them. The second part
covered in detail the core Build-Deploy-Test scripts, which together effectively implement all the
necessary functionality. In this third and final part, we will cover how we put together all of the
stages described in Part 1, by composing them using the blocks described in Part 2.
We will also cover a…
