Agile software development
Umbrella term for certain approaches to software development
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| 2023 | Published 'Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design' through O'Reilly. |
| 2023 |
Distributed agile software development
A systematic review concluded that Distributed Scrum has no demonstrable impact on overall project success in distributed software development.
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| 2023 | DBmaestro rolled out an AI-powered error-management assistant capable of automatically identifying errors in database releases and proposing immediate feedback including best practices for resolution. |
| 2023 |
DevOps
The State of DevOps report updated the stability metric from 'mean time to recover' to 'failed deployment recovery time', addressing previous criticisms of the research methodology and metrics.
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| 2022 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Server 2022 released as an on-premises version.
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| 2021 | Published fiction work 'Weatherly Hall' through Cyclotron Press. |
| 2021 |
DevOps
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) added Reliability as a new metric, expanding their performance measurement framework to focus on operational performance, availability, and user expectation adherence.
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| 2020 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Server 2020 released as an on-premises version (Version 18).
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| 2020 |
Infrastructure as code
Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks' threat intelligence unit) released the Cloud Threat Report, identifying approximately 200,000 potential vulnerabilities in infrastructure as code templates, highlighting significant security concerns in IaC technology.
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| 2020 |
Stand-up meeting
The specific three-question framework was removed from the Scrum Guide, marking a significant change in the standard approach to daily stand-up meetings.
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| 2020 |
Agile management
ISO releases ISO Standard 21502:2020, which officially references 'agile' as a delivery approach for products and project scope, providing formal recognition of Agile methodologies.
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| 2019 | Joined Gusto as a software fellow and coach, focusing on mentoring engineering teams in building payroll systems for small businesses. |
| 2019 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Server 2019 released as an on-premises version (Version 17).
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| 2019 |
Distributed agile software development
Another systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to further explore distributed agile software development challenges.
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| 2019 | Released 20th Anniversary Edition of 'The Pragmatic Programmer' with David Thomas. |
| July 2019 | DBmaestro announced a global reselling partnership agreement with IBM, enabling IBM to offer DBmaestro's platform to its worldwide enterprise customer base. |
| July 2019 |
PTC Integrity
PTC began retiring the Integrity brand and rebranding Integrity to Windchill.
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| 2018 |
Azure DevOps Server
Azure DevOps Services launched as a cloud service.
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| 2018 |
Mike Beedle
Mike Beedle was killed in Chicago in an apparent robbery, marking a tragic end to his life and career in software engineering and Agile methodology.
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| 2018 |
Infrastructure as code
Pulumi was released, providing a push infrastructure as code tool with declarative and imperative approaches, written in Go.
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| 2018 | Published follow-up fiction novel 'Conglommora Found' through Cyclotron Press. |
| 2018 | DBmaestro was honored as a Bronze Stevie Award Winner for New Product or Service of the Year in the Software - DevOps Solution category. |
| 2017 |
Azure DevOps Server
Team Foundation Server 2017 and Team Foundation Server 2018 released as on-premises versions (Versions 15 and 16).
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| 2017 | Published fiction novel 'Conglommora' through Cyclotron Press. |
| 2017 |
Stand-up meeting
The Scrum Guide recommended team members address three specific questions during daily stand-up meetings, focusing on yesterday's progress, today's planned work, and potential impediments to meeting the sprint goal.
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| 2016 | DBmaestro was lauded for 'standing out from the crowd' in the DevOps Dozen Awards, with voting conducted by DevOps.Com involving thousands of industry professionals across 12 categories. |
| 2016 |
DevOps
DORA metrics for throughput and stability were published in the State of DevOps report, introducing key performance indicators for DevOps practices.
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| 2015 |
Azure DevOps Server
Visual Studio Team Services launched as a cloud service, alongside Team Foundation Server 2015 on-premises version (Version 14).
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| 2015 |
Infrastructure as code
Otter was released by Inedo, a Windows-oriented push infrastructure as code tool with declarative and imperative approaches.
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| 2015 | DBmaestro was recognized by the editors of SD Times, Computing magazine, and a market research company. |
| 2014 |
Distributed agile software development
A systematic literature review (SLR) was performed to identify the main problems in implementing agile methodologies in distributed software development.
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| 2014 |
Infrastructure as code
Terraform was released by HashiCorp, introducing a push-based infrastructure as code tool with declarative and imperative approaches, written in Go.
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| 2014 | Published two editions of programming books focused on Minecraft plugins: 'Learn to Program using Minecraft Plugins with Bukkit' and 'Learn to Program using Minecraft Plugins, 2nd Ed with CanaryMod'. |
| 2014 |
DevOps
Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory published the book 'More Agile Testing', which included a chapter dedicated to testing and DevOps.
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| 2013 |
Azure DevOps Server
Visual Studio Online released as a cloud-based service.
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| 2012 |
Azure DevOps Server
Team Foundation Service Preview launched as a cloud-based service.
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| 2012 |
Infrastructure as code
Ansible / Ansible Tower was released by Red Hat, offering push and pull infrastructure as code capabilities with declarative and imperative approaches in Python.
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| 2012 |
DevOps
The first 'State of DevOps' report was published by Alanna Brown at Puppet Labs, providing insights into DevOps adoption and practices.
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| 2011 |
Infrastructure as code
SaltStack was released, providing push and pull infrastructure as code capabilities with declarative and imperative approaches using Python.
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| 2011 |
PTC Integrity
Product was renamed from MKS Integrity to PTC Integrity.
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| 2010 |
Azure DevOps Server
Team Foundation Server 2010 released as an on-premises version (Version 10).
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles PTC Integrity, DBmaestro, DevOps, Mike Beedle, Azure DevOps Server, Andy Hunt (author), Kent Beck, Acceptance testing, Infrastructure as code, Stand-up meeting, Distributed agile software development, Build light indicator & Agile management, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.