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Okay… let's set a little context here. In my last post we talked about two different types of projects. The ones that are knowable and the ones that aren't knowable. Projects where it makes sense to estimate and projects that are more like R&D investments where we are spending money to learn and discover. Today, I want to talk more about the first kind. The ones where we do have some idea of what we are building and the technical challenges that might be involved.
Getting clarity on what we are going to build and how we are going to build it isn't easy. This is especially true when we have multiple competing stakeholders, no clear way to resolve priority conflicts, more to do that we can possibly get done, and the technology while understandable, certainly isn't trivial. In the face of this kind of ambiguity, I think that many of us have thrown up our hands and concluded that software isn't estimateable and everything should be treated like R&D.
I think this is a mistake. If we keep pushing to treat everything like R&D, without understanding the delivery context we're working within, the whole agile movement risks loosing credibility with our executives. If you remember from our earlier conversations, most companies have predictive-convergent business models. We may want them to be adaptive-emergent, but they aren't there yet. We'll can talk about how to move these folks, but for now we have to figure out how to commit.
Back in the day when I was just learning about agile, and immersed in the early thinking of Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Mary Poppendieck, and Ken Schwaber… I came across this idea that the team had to commit to a goal or an increment of the product at the end of the iteration. There were some preconditions of course, the story had to be clear and understandable, we needed to have access to an onsite customer, and the team had to have everything it needed to deliver.
If the story wasn't clear and understandable, there was this idea of a spike. I've always understood a spike to be some snippet of product we'd build to go learn something about what we wanted to do or how we were going to do it. This idea has expanded some over the past few years to include any work we bring into the sprint to do discovery or learn something we didn't know before. It's basically an investment the product owner makes to get clarity into the backlog.
Like most of you guys I'm sure, my planning approach was heavily influenced by Mike Cohn's Agile Estimating and Planning book. Mike turned me on to Bill Wake's INVEST model and I've used that as a tool for understanding and teaching good user stories ever since. The longer I use the INVEST model the more profound I think it is, but as widely accepted as this idea seems to be, I think there are a few under-appreciated letters in the model. The one most relevant to this discussion is the 'E'.
E is for Estimateable
The idea behind INVEST is that these six attributes of a user story set the preconditions the Product Owner must meet before the story can be brought to the team. If they are not INVEST ready, they get deferred and we schedule a spike. The idea behind the 'E' specifically is that the user story must be well enough understood by the team that they know how to build it. The team has to be able to break down the user story enough to put detailed estimates on the tasks and be willing to commit.
Remember when I said that almost every disfunction on an agile team tracks back to the backlog? We'll here is the problem… most teams are accepting user stories into sprints that are not INVEST ready and are certainly not estimateable. If the team doesn't have enough information to make a commitment they shouldn't make a commitment. So… do we conclude from this that software isn't estimateable or do we conclude that we collectively do a poor job backlog grooming.
Backlog Grooming
Because most of us work in dysfunctional organizations that don't manage a roadmap, don't stick to their vision, thrash around at the executive level, and generally can't make up their mind… many of us have come to the conclusion that creating a backlog is waste. Why spend all that time writing up user stories when things are going to constantly change? This is indeed a problem, but giving up on planning is not the answer. Making up your backlog as you go isn't the answer either.
When we make up the backlog as we go, everything the team encounters is going to be new to them. Everything they do is going to require a spike. The whole notion of Sprint Planning and Release Planning is predicated on the notion that we generally know the size of the backlog, we learn the velocity of the team, and based on those two variables we can begin to predict when we'll be able to get done. If everything requires a spike, the backlog is unstable and indeterminate.
For every user story we attempt to build, we create at least one spike, and probably two to three more user stories. Even if we have a stable velocity, the scope of the release is increasing faster than we can burn down the backlog. We never end up with stable view of what's happening on the project. The team feels like it's thrashing, the product owner feels like their thrashing, and the organization gets frustrated because the product isn't getting out the door.
Dealing with Backlog Uncertainty
To solve this problem… to get better at making and meeting commitments… even at just the sprint level… we have to plan a sprint or two ahead of the increment we intend to commit. That means if we want to get better at nailing sprint commitments, we need to have backlog properly groomed BEFORE the sprint planning meeting. If there is spike work to be done, that needs to be identified and done BEFORE the sprint where the user story is going to be built.
The implication here is that the team (in any given sprint) is going to have some capacity allocated toward the work of the sprint and some capacity reserved for preparing for the upcoming sprints. This could be as simple as having a meeting or two every sprint to help the PO groom the backlog, do look ahead on the backlog, to ask questions and to give guidance. Sometimes it's more ad-hoc and sometimes it's more formal. Some teams track this work, some just allow it to lower velocity.
Either way, allowing some slice of capacity for preparing for the upcoming sprints is an essential element to begin stabilizing delivery, agree? If you are with me so far… I'd suggest that stabilizing a release follows the same rules we just applied for stabilizing sprints. Don't commit to anything in a release that the team doesn't understand or know how to build. If there is a ton of risk and uncertainty coming out of release planning, Scrum isn't going to necessarily help us delivery reliably against the release objectives.
So how do we get this level of clarity on the release level backlog? If we apply the same concept at the release level we applied at the sprint level, we'd have to suggest that the team has to do spike work BEFORE they get to the release planning event. That means that we need to have some idea of what's in the upcoming release, and the unknowns associated with that release, BEFORE the current release is even done. If we are doing 3 month releases, I'm looking for high-level planning somewhere between 3 to 6 months out.
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Too me, every atheilogical/theilogical arguement boils down to: chances are God exists/doesn't exist. To get to that point, you must site irrelevent information, as since it is unknown to wheather a God exists litterally, there is a one in one chance that you are right (or wrong).
I must object here. "There is no evidence for or against, therefore you can't argue." is a silly position. No one believes in Unicorns, despite the lack of evidence either way, just as no one believe in Leprechauns, Dragons, and similar.
So my question is, is it counter productive to bash religion as a whole? I think it is. If you disagree with the actions of certain religions, at least bash those specific actions and not that religion or
all religion as a whole
. I mean, if an exremest Islamic sect is threatening you with suicide bombings, bash their beliefs by all means.
What I don't get is atheists getting all worked up about
belief in a personal God. Thoughts?
Very few atheists care if someone else believes in god or not. However, if you're trying to convert others to your belief, or make patently false statements about proof of god, then I'd argue that you make yourself fair game.
As soon as you make a statement asserting that God is real, I'm now free to make a statement saying otherwise. Anything else would be, at best, unfair.
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worldview (whether religious, spiritual, or secular) is counter-productive, and I would add, dangerous.
Not at all. The alternative is to never question anything anyone says; which means ignoring evil and never lauding good.
But I do agree with your main point, that atheists/agnostics/skeptics should focus their scathing critiques on those segments of religion that deserve it, instead of religion as a whole (well, speaking of those secularists who do rant against religion as a whole, that is). And likewise, theists must cease generalizing about non-believers as well and seek a wider view of things.
All in all, there is fault on both sides, and both sides need to cooperate to be able to understand each other better.
A key point of atheism is the statement that there is no god. As such any arguments made to endorse atheism have to tackle someone's religion as a whole.
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The "Mayan calendar" has been in the news a lot leading up to December 2012. If you don't already know, some think it marks December 21, 2012 as the day the world will end. Setting aside whether or not we'll still be here come 2013, it's still interesting to look at how the Mayans marked time. The singular "calendar" -- when referring to the "Mayan Calendar"-- embraced by popular culture is not technically accurate. The Mayans actually used multiple calendars.
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Designing Infrastructure for Private Clouds
We're taking the wraps off our Cloud Connect New York program including a workshop line-up of new topics and crowd favorites from Cloud Connect Las Vegas. As my colleague Emily described, this year's workshop program covers the entire cloud stack, from the infrastructure building blocks, to cloud application development and managing increasingly heterogeneous cloud environments.
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With that I'm pleased to announce:
Designing Infrastructure for Private Clouds
Instructor: Ivan Pepelnjak | Chief Technology Advisor, NIL Data Communications
Private cloud deployments are often just a glorified facade for server virtualization, missing the flexibility, elasticity and self-service aspects of cloud services. The missteps leading to this sad state usually start in the design phase, making it even more important to focus on the design of your private cloud infrastructure.
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After attending this workshop you'll be able to:
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Why Cloud Performance Matters
Join me Tuesday, June 17th for a Cloud Connect webcast on "Why Cloud Performance Matters." Our guest speaker is Jared Wray, CTO at CenturyLink Cloud. Jared is a respected thought leader in the enterprise cloud services market, having originated the Iron Foundry open source PaaS project. He also founded Tier 3 which was acquired by CenturyLink in 2013.
Why Cloud Performance Matters
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Time: 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET
Duration: 60 minutes
When a cloud service provider promises "fastest performance" at a good price, it can seem like a hands-down easy choice. But with cloud, there is no "top performing" or "fastest" cloud infrastructure. There is only the infrastructure that will perform best for your specific workloads. And that can be the difference between higher overall costs, and rightsized, lower costs relative to your needs.
In this webinar, you will learn how the performance requirements of workloads can drive what to spend on compute resources, how to decide the right host for your workloads, how to choose to scale when the need arises, and how, ultimately, cloud performance directly impacts cloud TCO.
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Ben Kepes, Founder and Principal, Diversity Limited
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Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow, Microsoft
Margaret Dawson, VP of Product Marketing & Cloud Evangelist, HP Cloud Services
Jesse Proudman, Founder and CEO, Blue Box
Krishnan Subramanian, Director, OpenShift Strategy, Red Hat
Brent Smithurst, VP of Product Management/Marketing, ActiveState
Michael Biddick, CEO, Fusion PPT
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And that's just day 1 of the Cloud Connect Summit! We're planning for lots of Q&A time with this esteemed group of speakers so get your questions ready and I'll see you in Vegas!
Meet the Cloud Connect Advisers
As we approach our first Cloud Connect Summit in Las Vegas, I'd like to recognize the people we count on most for developing the high-quality conference program Cloud Connect is known for. This year we have been fortunate to get support from an amazing team of experts and influencers. Their guidance can be seen in the caliber of speakers we have assembled to take the stage in just three weeks!
Wendy White, Principal, Surge Marketing Group
Bernard Golden, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Enstratius, a Dell Company
Scott Bils, Managing Partner, Leverhawk
Alistair Croll, VP, CloudOps Research
Charlie Babcock, Editor-at-large, InformationWeek
Joe Weinman, Author, Cloudonomics
Steve Riley, Technical Director, CTO Office, Riverbed Technology
Dave Roberts, Author, Leverhawk.com/ Sr. Director, BMC Software
Ben Kepes, Advisor, Investor and Founder, Diversity Limited
Jimit Aurora, Vice President, Everest Group
Andrew Conry-Murray, Director of Content & Community, Interop
Thank you to a great team! See you in Vegas!
Cloud Connect is Heading to Las Vegas!
In case you missed our big announcement last month, Cloud Connect is heading to Las Vegas! This is significant step forward as we continue to advance the cloud agenda and cover the issues that matter most in enterprise cloud adoption. We began Cloud Connect in the Silicon Valley four years ago, and in that short time we have made tremendous progress in helping to define and evangelize the value of cloud computing. Today its value is impossible to ignore, but the hard work of enterprise integration still lies ahead!
Cloud Connect Summit will take place March 31 – April 1 alongside the mighty Interop Las Vegas. With Interop's longstanding strength in serving the IT community and Cloud Connect's focus on the cloud-enabled enterprise, we are taking the next step in helping companies evaluate their cloud options and make the right decisions for their business. As IT and business leaders embrace the cloud model, the time is right to bring Cloud Connect to the largest independent IT event in the US.
With the Cloud Connect Summit we are also planning a new program format developed around "critical cloud decisions." The final agenda will be crowd-sourced to the Cloud Connect community and zero in on the most pressing cloud technology, policy and organizational decisions and debates facing the cloud-enabled enterprise.
Some of the topics we will explore include:
- In-depth analysis and comparison of the leading cloud stacks
- The role of IT and CIO leaders in the new service provider model
- Embracing IT-as-a-Service, Agile IT and DevOps strategy
- Open Data / Open Clouds and APIs
- Processes for managing SaaS and the heterogeneous cloud environment
- Operational and policy issues, case studies and models for the cloud-enabled enterprise
- Cloud-enabling platforms: Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), cloud brokers, cloud management platforms (CMPs) and cloud identity management
To complement the 2-day summit we have a number of in-depth workshops planned including:
- OpenStack Boot Camp
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- Infrastructure for Private Clouds
- Orchestration and Management of Federated Applications in Hybrid Clouds
We are gearing Cloud Connect Summit towards a cross-section of disciplines with a stake in the cloud-enabled enterprise. Technology stakeholders include CIO/CTO, architects, senior engineers and IT leaders. Business stakeholders include business analysts, project/program managers and line of business leaders.
I'm really excited to take this important next step with Cloud Connect. Now comes the fun of developing a stellar agenda with the help of an incredible advisory board. More on that and program developments in the weeks ahead.
Viva Las Vegas!
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Alistair Croll, VP, CloudOps Research
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Performance is the intersection of power, agility, and control. If you value performance you don't want to use an oversubscribed, commodity cloud as the cornerstone of your business. In this session we will discuss the features of a cloud that combine to create a truly performant environment.
Fireside Chat with Cloud Security Alliance: The State of Security & The Cloud
This keynote will provide a brief overview of CSA research on government access to information, attitudes domestically and abroad, will discuss future impacts on cloud providers and government policies, and outline the CSA view on best practices on balancing safety, security, individual privacy and business interests of cloud.
- Jason Witty, Senior Vice President & CISO, U.S. Bank
- Jim Reavis, Co-founder & Executive Director, Cloud Security Alliance
Stack Wars: The Battle for the Enterprise Cloud
The Stack Wars rage on with heated debates around which cloud platform is best suited for the enterprise. Join this lively discussion with leading cloud providers and judge for yourself which will come out on top!
Moderator: Alistair Croll, VP, CloudOps Research
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- Jim Anthony, Vice-President, Tier II Solution Architecture Team, Verizon Terremark
- Mathew Lodge, VP, Cloud Services, VMware
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Transforming Data Architecture Complexity at Sears
The Hadoop ecosystem of big data tools has transformed the way structured and unstructured data is ingested, processed, stored and analyzed at Sears Holdings, a highly data-driven company. Discover the challenges that hadoop helps overcome and key use cases that drive big data value across the organization.
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Big data is not only changing the way we store data but more importantly, why we store data. No longer are we storing data just to look back in history but now we are keeping it to predict the future. Enterprises are rapidly adapting to utilize Cloud Storage techniques to remove obstacles that block users from being able to retain, access and learn from their data. "Disruptive Thinkers" in each Enterprise are using these tools to analyze the past in order to reveal the opportunities for data driven decisions on where to invest in the future for market space leadership and differentiation.
The recent Cloud Connect tweet chat on "Management, application performance & security in a Hybrid Cloud world" addressed one of the fundamental challenges facing business technology stakeholders – weighing the benefits of cloud computing with potential loss of direct access & control over application infrastructure. This is especially true with PaaS & SaaS where more of the infrastructure control is ceded to the Cloud provider.
Our Enterprise Cloud Adoption Survey shows that businesses are growing increasingly comfortable with both SaaS & PaaS. But what are the tradeoffs and concerns? Here's a snapshot of our Cloud Connect twitter discussion on this topic: Continue Reading »
Last week Cloud Connect hosted a "Tweet Chat" – a preplanned virtual discussion which takes place via Twitter. The topic for our chat was "Management, application performance & security in a Hybrid Cloud world" which proved to be a fruitful topic of conversation.
We asked a series of questions to our faithful Cloud Connect Twitter followers and anyone else interested in joining the discussion. The responses started coming in right away and it was interesting to see the variety of perspectives and responses.
Our first question dealt with whether data security concerns would stifle or spur hybrid cloud adoption. Here's a snapshot of the discussion:
Meet the Team Behind the CloudStack Track
One of our goals with Cloud Connect Chicago is to provide a side-by-side comparison of the leading cloud platforms and ecosystems. CloudStack is a top-level project within the Apache Software Foundation and is one of the leading contenders in the battle for Infrastructure-as-a-Service adoption. This week we are taking the wraps off the CloudStack Track we have been planning with key members of the CloudStack community. Meet the the co-track chairs for this year's program:
Mark Hinkle, Sr. Director, Open Source Solutions, Citrix – Mark Hinkle is the Senior Director of Cloud Computing Community at Citrix Systems Inc. He joined Citrix as a result of their July 2011 acquisition of Cloud.com where he was their Vice President of Community. He is currently responsible for Citrix open source efforts around the open source cloud computing platform, Apache CloudStack and the Xen Hypervisor. Previously he was the VP of Community at Zenoss Inc., a producer of the open source application, server, and network management software, where he grew the Zenoss Core project to over 100,000 users and 20,000 organizations on all seven continents. He also is a longtime open source expert and author having served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine. Mr. Hinkle is also the author of the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration." (Thomson, 2006). He is a contributor to NetworkWorld's Open Source Subnet and his personal blog on open source, technology, and new media can be found at www.socializedsoftware.com. You can follow him on twitter @mrhinkle.
Aaron Delp, Sr. Director, Technical Marketing, Citrix – Aaron Delp is the Sr. Director of Technical Marketing for the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group. He currently leads the generation and publishing of reference architectures, technical documentation, competitive intelligence, and field enablement content. Prior to Citrix, Aaron led the Cloud Field Enablement team for VCE specializing in management, orchestration, and automation products from VMware, Cisco, EMC, and CA Technologies. In addition, Aaron led a solutions team that designed, tested, and published the configuration of Cisco Unified Communications (UC) on the VCE Vblock Platform. Other past responsibilities include a top 50 technology value added reseller (VAR), ePlus Technology serving as the Data Center Practice Lead & over ten years at IBM holding various positions supporting business partners, vendors, and distributors to design and deploy data center solutions. Continue Reading »


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According to Carrie Prejean, gays should never fall in love, exchange rings and marry.
But Miss California has no problem when they eat, drink and be merry!
Celebrity gossip sites are reporting that Prejean - who continues to make headlines, days after she said she believes marriage should be between "a man and a woman" during the 2009 Miss USA pageant - once hung out with famous transsexual and gay icon Amanda Lepore.
"I don't remember even meeting her," Lepore told Us Weekly about their time partying together, shown below.
As for Carrie's comments and the subsequent controversy, Lepore said: "It's stupid for her to be running for Miss USA to say that. It's a dumbbell remark. If you're Miss USA, you are supposed to be smart and that's not a smart idea."
Meanwhile, follow this article's jump for shocking news on how Prejean's church sees homosexuality.
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There are moral repercussions stemming from homosexual behavior as evidenced by the fact that one third of all sexual crimes against children are committed by homosexuals even though they are representative of only one percent of the population. Pedophilia has even been called central to the gay lifestyle. The agenda of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is to lower the age of consent so that sex with children will be legal.
Does the church provide any credible evidence to back up these startling figures and accusations? No.
Carrie Prejean is seen here on stage at Rock Church of San Diego. But does she really wanna be associated with a church that links homosexuality with pedophilia?
Come on now. Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. But what does that even mean? Marriage is close to her heart?!? If that's the case, perhaps Prejean should campaign against the nuptials of heterosexual couples, considering nearly 50% of them end in divorce. About the closest things to her heart are the breast implants done prior to the competition...what a ditz
Well done Carrie!
I know it's crazy to ask for this, Kim, but do you have any proof of that as a slogan for NAMBLA? Anywhere you've actually seen it written?
"She didn't lose because she believed marriage should be allowed only for a man and a woman, she lost because of how she presented it..." There was no other way to present it that would please the judges short of either endorsing the gay lifestyle or giving a neutral non-answer like leave it to the states to decide, which avoids the question of what the states should decide in the first place.
"Praise God she stood up for what she believes. " She didn't lose because she believed marriage should be allowed only for a man and a woman, she lost because of how she presented it...
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