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Apple’s New Xcode Cloud Is Big – Adds Azure DevOps & Atlassian Features

July 1, 2021
By Ken Adams

Engineering

Apple's new Xcode Cloud is a big deal and adds CI/CD features right into Xcode. In typical Apple style, they innovated in some big ways. And here's a quick tool comparison with Microsoft and Atlassian.

Apple, Azure DevOps/VSTS, CI/CD, DevOps, Jira

Jira & Confluence Server License Sales ENDS Forever on Feb 2nd

February 1, 2021
By Ken Adams

Agile, Commentary, Jira/Azure DevOps/VSTS

Atlassian ENDS the sale of Jira & Confluence server licenses forever on Feb 2nd, 2021. They want everyone to move to the cloud. So get yours before they're gone.

Agile, Confluence, Jira

Estimating in Scrum – Why & How To

May 28, 2019
By Ken Adams

Agile, Jira/Azure DevOps/VSTS

Estimates are a fundamental element of Scrum. Because they are the basis for planning and predicting when work will be completed. Like Sprints, if you’re not using Sprints and estimating, then you’re not using the Scrum framework.