Alternative Methodologies to Agile

Beyond Agile: Dev Methodologies to Fit Your Project

Brian Jacobs Agile, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Project Management 1 Comment

Sometimes, Agile isnโ€™t the best choice, even if it is the most highly touted. Sometimes, itโ€™s worth thinking critically about the project and its requirements to select a methodology that works better. In this post, I will explore a few of those Agile alternatives.

Scripting Development Environment Setup with tmux

Scripting Development Environment Setup with tmux

Rachel Walker Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Recently, I found myself in a position that developers often face โ€“ setting up a complicated local development environment.

My mission: get 8-10 local services up and running using a variety of technologies to test my code prior to merging to a shared environment. Armed with several outdated READMEs, my terminal, and some dire warnings about which services would likely crash my machine, I dove in.

The following blog is my story of writing scripts that utilize tmux to impose some order on the setup process.

Cloud Native & Microservices Readiness Assessment

Lauren Fournier Bogner Application Rewrite, IT Strategy, Manufacturing, Industrial & Supply Chain, Modernization, Transportation & Logistics

The project included an assessment of an existing monolithic application and recommendations for modernizing it to achieve the goals of the initiativeโ€”mainly a cloud-first, performant, and microservices-based implementation. Specific technology suggestions were proposed in addition to the reasoning behind each recommendation. While proprietary details cannot be shared, generalized takeaways are included. Client Consulting Relationship The client was a global leader …