Today, I indulged myself a little and took a break with the family since I spent almost all weekend pounding out the August newsletter. Now that it’s basically in the bag, I wanted to talk about something that I’d been beating around the bush about before, but even I wasn’t really quite aware of until […]
Yeah, baby! We’re Agile now!
Oh really? How do you know you’re “agile”? Well, step 1 is that you have to figure out why you want to be “agile” in the first place. And “because it’s kool, man!” or “because everyone’s doin’ it, dude!” aren’t acceptable answers. Now, if you’re one of the original 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto, […]
Got Agile?
There’s a lot of talk about Agile these days. Everyone’s doing it—well, almost everyone. And those who aren’t are a particular shade of green with envy and full of laments, remorse and frustration as to why they can’t be agile too. But here’s the thing about “agile”…it’s the thing that applies to quite a lot […]
Tossing the DevSecOps zombies over the waterfall
I get what the whole DevSecOps movement is trying to accomplish. I really do. Because they’re right: The “traditional” approach to security is well and truly broken. We have proof of this every day from the trenches, let alone the headlines. And so, we need to “Shift left!” “Shift left…shift left…shift left…” It’s a mantra. […]
