This blog post covers advanced DevOps practices. To get started with DevOps you may want to read the preceding blog post on Getting to DevOps: A Checklist.

This blog post covers basic DevOps practices. If you already feel confident with DevOps you may want to read Thriving with DevOps: An Advanced Checklist.

Have you ever asked your clients what quality means to them? If so, you have very probably been confronted with many more or less different answers depending on personal preferences and expectations of the given customer. There is no absolute quality. If a service or product meets expectations of a particular client, he considers it a service or product of a good quality. So we are clear on our mission – we aim to stay customer oriented and address client´s requirements in order to achieve maximum quality. The expectations of the client as well as the market situation are unfortunately no…

Especially when joining projects for a second release with already existing functional design specifications (FDS), it may well be that user stories are not what they should be. With much room for interpretation they might not be clear, easy to understand or even complete. The impact is an additional (unexpected) effort with all further consequences and discussions between the customer and the contractor about what has and what hasn't been offered. But why is it like that? If you have ever asked yourself one of the following questions: "What is a user story?", "How can I write one?" and…

There are plenty of interviews and articles praising the added value of using Atlassian tools. To check those perspectives, as an experiment, we turned it around … They say we only really appreciate the value of things after they’re gone. Imagine the following situation: We are a medium-sized software development company, with branches in a few European countries. Together we have around 150 employees, most of them developers, project managers, line managers and administration. All employees use Atlassian tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc., in their daily work. Looking at the daily work log of…